E-commerce solution : Cartweaver ou WebAssist ?

Question

Hi,
My site is currently based on Interakt products (MX Kommerce
etc) and as all support from Interakt has now ceased and since most
of their products have been discontinued, I have to look around for
an alternative solution. Some people on the Interakt forms
recommended Web Assist which does seem to have an impressive list
of products designed to replace Interakt's. However, I have seen
quite a bit of negative feedback from others who say Web Assist's
products simply do not work. Are there any Web Assist clients here
who could give me their point of view ? Another possible solution
is Cartweaver which is cheaper to buy and appears to be simpler.
But Cartweaver appears to be geared towards simple sites with few
categories, products and product options whereas my site has many.
Again I'd be interested on hearing from Cartweaver customers and
also to see some Cartweaver-based sites.
I like the idea of a simple, eg Cartweaver, solution but it
shouldn't be too simple meaning I'd have to add loads of custom
code to make it suit my needs -I'm no programmer !).
Cheers

Answer 1

peetk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My site is currently based on Interakt products (MX
Kommerce etc) and as all
> support from Interakt has now ceased and since most of
their products have been
> discontinued, I have to look around for an alternative
solution. Some people on
> the Interakt forms recommended Web Assist which does
seem to have an impressive
> list of products designed to replace Interakt's.
However, I have seen quite a
> bit of negative feedback from others who say Web
Assist's products simply do
> not work. Are there any Web Assist clients here who
could give me their point
> of view ? Another possible solution is Cartweaver which
is cheaper to buy and
> appears to be simpler. But Cartweaver appears to be
geared towards simple sites
> with few categories, products and product options
whereas my site has many.
> Again I'd be interested on hearing from Cartweaver
customers and also to see
> some Cartweaver-based sites.
>
> I like the idea of a simple, eg Cartweaver, solution but
it shouldn't be too
> simple meaning I'd have to add loads of custom code to
make it suit my needs
> -I'm no programmer !).
>
> Cheers
>
I have built 2 stores with Web Assists eCart,
http://store.dmcworld.com
and
http://www.aclighting.com/shop
I had to get my head into the code to get what I wanted out
of the
tools, and I found several bugs which were quickly fixed by
the
excellent support. What you have to remember about eCart is
that it is a
tool to help *you* build your shop that you *you* want it.
You need to
know what pages go where and how you want them to work, you
then use the
Web Assist tools to help you create the shop.
Web Assist suffers from the same marketing problems that
Dreamweaver
does, it makes people who know next to nothing think they can
use it to
make an all singing all dancing shop without any hand coding.
I have helped people in there forums, and have seen the
number of
frustrated users who expect the software to do it all for
them. It
doesn't, but with a bit of research first, you will make
excellent use
of the tools and create some really nice shops.
Before the 2 I made I had never even thought about how a
online shop
should work, but I still managed to make successful shops.
The first one
has been online for about 3 years now, and is doing very
well, the
second on is only 3 months old and its got some way to go
yet, there is
much more that we are going to do with it.
Steve