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Selling Antiques online?

What CMS or platform would you recommend for an e-commerce site selling lots of one-off products, like an antiques or art?

  • Some additional background, though generalist answers appreciated too. I'm a startup exec and have built multiple web properties. I offered to build a site for a friend starting a business selling unique art, objects, etc. Biz model similar to an antiques dealer. They're non technical. I am, but I need to get something running and move on with life. Besides custom backends I've used WP and Concrete5 extensively. I've heard good things about Magento and Shopify. We'll integrate with ebay and all that probably, not too worried, just want something that won't drive me nuts (ie hackable, extensible if things take off) but is otherwise mostly out of the box. So, a store with lots of products, but only one of each, admin by a smart digital but non technical person, any recommendations or things to check out?

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    Prestashop or Open cart don't go with zencart.

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I've helped set up Magento for a friend, and while I wasn't absolutely wowed, I know it's popular and does the job. The other one I've heard of is Shopify, though I haven't used it.

Pierre Legrain

This site was made with Drupal: http://www.cargoh.com/ It might be kind what you're shooting for? I'm guessing they used the ubercart module, not sure though. Might be worth looking into.

Harry Dennen

Hi there,In my opinion, which is WooCommerce or Magento. I liked magento a lot. But not there is a twist in Magento, same as it was with Zend Framework. Magento has launched version 2. Which is totally different from version 1.x. Its not back ward compatible.If you’ve resources available for Magento 2, then I would definitely suggest you to go with Magento 2.x version. The things to look at when choosing Magento is, that your server should be a healthy server. That means, you’ve to go with a Magento partner solution hosting company. I’ve seen people complain about Magento performance on low budget servers.If your budget doesn’t allow you to go for Magento partner hosting providers, then you can go for OpenCart, PrestaShop or ZenCart. OpenCart requires PHP version 5.3 atleast. Many low budget hosting providers don’t give you PHP version 5.3.x on shared domain, this is also a problem with magento.There you go, my little experience with e-commerce. Hope, I’ve given you something to think about when choosing a e-commerce platform for your friend. Take care.

Shah Mubashir

If I understand properly, you want to build a  commerce website but want a solution right out of the box. A lot of open source solutions are available. You could try PrestaShop if you want to host the store yourself. As you would be hosting yourself, you have full control over the store. It's easy to install with a rich back-end. However, if you want a hosted solution you could try Shopify, Magneto or the ones that other users are stating.

Suman Nath

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