You have a good point, there are a lot of claims, but when you look under the dress, you find a lot of weiners…

Our company had an absolute nightmare with Storefront.net and I cannot urge anyone strongly enough to avoid them at all costs. We’ve recently ported to AbleCommerce and thus far have been pleased. It offers quite a bit and although some features could be more robust (and that’s really me being overly picky), it’s a pretty good solution ovrall.

I didn’t take an in-depth look at it, but I wasn’t super impressed with what little I saw of it nor the sites built with it. I don’t think it’s close to what I’m looking for. Perhaps it could be customized to provide the functionality I want, but from experience I’m more inclined to build something from the ground up rather than customizing somebody else’s code.

It is shareware so it is FREE, which is a huge benefit. It is written in PHP so if you have any knowledge in PHP you can do ANYTHING you want with it. In addition, it has thousands of people running it and developing add-ons as it is open source and does or has something built to do most of what you say.

In addition, there are plenty of free templates available and you just need to drop in your logo image. Shipping modules are built to work with most shipping methods. If they do not come prebuilt, look in the forums.

Sorry, one limitation is no recurring billing.

Hope this helps.
Jay

I’ve been searching for similar solutions for our customers/members for years. I guarantee if you build it, small business owners will pay for it. Especially if it’s affordable and simple to use. Small business owners simply don’t have the time or expertise to do it themselves. I should contact you about this.

I enjoy your blog.