A Robust Fork Of osCommerce: TomatoCart
TomatoCart is an open source e-commerce application that is branched from the popular osCommerce to offer a better experience.
It comes with a totally new front and back-ends where the back-end is an impressive desktop-like ExtJS-powered interface.
The application supports selling any type of item from simple products to digital goods and services.
Also, there are lots of features for marketing them including:
- gift certificates
- wishlists
- discounts based on quantity
- cross-selling and more.
TomatoCart creates SEO-friendly URLs for products, categories, reviews or articles and automated sitemap generation for a better ranking in search engines.
It also makes analyzing the stats easier with Piwik, an open source analytics application, being integrated into the admin dashboard.
Another interesting but handy feature is the "built-in webmail" which helps receiving and replying customer e-mails within the back-end.
TomatoCart is multilingual, being improved frequently and definitely worth checking out.
Website: http://www.tomatocart.com/
Frontend Demo: http://demo.tomatocart.com/
Backend Demo: http://demo.tomatocart.com/admin
Backend Demo - User-Pass: User: admin - Password: admin
Download: http://www.tomatocart.com/index.php/downloads/downlo...
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7 Responses for "A Robust Fork Of osCommerce: TomatoCart"
I have been in the process of using Magento, is this a better option? It looks very appealing.
So far after using it, the look and feel is very sleek, the admin backend is pretty nifty…but it still has it’s limitations.
Even using the stable release, I found their “SEO” optimized links to buggy – leads to broken links. Lack of documentation for template and module creation will temporarily hinder their ability to build a strong community until they start pushing these features, which I believe to be their strong and currently weak points.
tyr opencart instead.
Thanks for your attention to TomatoCart.
Here I’d like to supplement a few words on TomatoCart. TomatoCart is famous for the admin panel by integrating advanced web 2.0 technology, Ajax and RIAs, which assists online merchants with high-efficiency management. Likewise, the long wait for an entire page to refresh from a Web server isn’t necessary in an AJAX-based application.
Now, TomatoCart has entered a new stage. In the upcoming version 1.1 the features in will be full-fledge, including those that can only be found in a commercial cart.
Besides, the team are also keeping on efforts to work out more fantastic templates. Up to now the three templates designed by TomatoCart are constantly praised, and winning more reputation from the ever-expanding community and outside.
Template free download link:
http://www.tomatocart.com/products/extension-manage.html?task=list&categories_id=2
TomatoCart V1.1.1 is available with more features included. I must admit it is much more powerful.
You can join TomatoCart Facebook page getting latest information about this project(www.facebook.com/tomatocart)
The look and feel of TomatoCart are brilliant in the front and back, but I don’t understand all the praise. Importing products is a one-shot deal: you can’t use imports to modify products. This might be a good cart for small stores, but anyone who needs to bulk update products is out of luck. The development team has no answers to this problem.
I’ve run into this in another cart somewhere. I really, really don’t understand how a basic function like updating products is treated like a “nice to have”.
I recently made the switch to TomatoCart, and I’m very impressed. I’ve made the full tour of OsCommerce builds and this is the first one I would be comfortable recommending to clients who want to maintain themselves. It really comes down to, when they ask: “How do I fix/do this?” will your answer be met with groans and rolled eyes? We have made it too far to tolerate a complete lack of interface functionality in this day and age. Kudos to TomatoCart dev!