I’m just a newbie when it comes to websites, but already I’ve got four of my own, with at least another four to come, and so I’ve been taking the matter of WordPress shopping carts pretty seriously, looking over this and that plugin, installing them on various sites and fiddling with their controls, that kind of stuff — so believe me when I say that I know whereof I speak when I tell you that nothing but nothing works like Cart66 for me…nothing.
I just like how intuitive it’s been placing the product price and add-to-cart button on a product page. You simply stick it in wherever you want. Makes sense to me!
It seems that none of the other commercial (that is, paid) cart systems for WordPress do this, which is hard to believe but that’s been my experience so far — and like I said, I’ve been doing this for a while now. Now don’t get me wrong…I’m quite partial to them, too. For example, the Tribulant WordPress Shopping Cart plugin was actually my lead contender, but that ultimately fell through for various reasons which would be outside the scope of my brief comment here to get into right now. Suffice it to say, there’s more than one way to skin any cat, as they say; it just so happens that my present needs have taken a real easy likin’ to one and not the other.
Indeed, when it comes to eCommerce on WordPress, you’ll probably find that most solutions, while offering user interfaces that can be quite different beneath the surface, often work in a rather surprisingly similar manner otherwise. So it really just boils down to what particular feature you really cannot do without and which you could perhaps give up. Some plugins are much more straight-forward when it comes to page layout and site design matters while with others such things aren’t as nearly so simple and intuitive — due to the much more powerful abilities they offer instead.