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nopCommerce is an open source shopping cart software that is built with ASP.NET & uses MSSQL for storing the data.

It comes with a powerful backend & highly customizable frontend.

Open Source ASP.NET Shopping Cart

nopCommerce has all the features of a standard e-commerce websites & offers more like:

  • support for kit products (e.g. build your own computer)
  • real-time currency exchange rates
  • multilingual interface
  • compare selected products
  • highly flexible shipping calculation (integrated providers, width/height/order total based & more)
  • tax calculations by country/state/product & more
  • built-in forum & polls
  • wishlist

One of the most impressive parts of the software is the integrated marketing capabilities it has. You can customize the design of a product or category page, create any type of discounts & even activate an affiliate system.

nopCommerce supports most of the popular payment gateways & with its pluggable modular/layered architecture, new ones can be added with ease (some are already created).

Tutorialzine is sharing a beautiful tutorial (with source) on creating an Ajaxed drag’n drop shopping cart with jQuery & PHP.

It uses MySQL for storing the data & simpleTip plugin for displaying information about the products with style.

Drag'n Drop Shopping Cart

It takes advantage of the jQuery UI’s draggable & droppable behaviours to accomplish the flawless experience.

The shopping cart is not a ready-to-go one for an e-commerce website but it is a nice base for creating one by improving the features.

Tip: Tutorialzine provides other nice tutorials which you may be interested in like:

BigCommerce LogoBigCommerce is an easy-to-use hosted e-commerce software which makes your store up & running so quickly.

It can be totally customized as you have full access to HTML/CSS via FTP & there are 50+ ready-to-use store designs that can be applied with few clicks.

BigCommerce is integrated with almost every payment, shipping & accounting system you can think of. Optionally, it offers its own merchant account system with under-the-market rates.

The software is fully optimized for SEO from valid W3C templates to automatically generated sitemap XML file & SEO-firendly links.

BigCommerce

Besides the products, it is possible to create & share any content (like return policies, promotion details) with its CMS functionality.

The software offers a quality usability experience to customers with features like:

  • one-click adding to cart
  • ability to compare products
  • tracking orders
  • wishlists (public & private)
  • single page & guest checkout
  • powerful search system (suggestions, filtering by price/availability, etc.)
  • & many more

It has everything to market the products easily like

  • trackable coupon codes
  • bulk discounts per product
  • ability to create custom discount rules
  • free shipping for purchases over $x
  • affiliate system
  • & more..

As BigCommerce is a hosted software, it comes with an included premium hosting with daily offsite backups, unlimited e-mails & top-notch security.

To sum up, the software offers more than anything a store owner can expect. It is a great choice for anyone who wants to run their stores without any technical hassle & get official support.

P.S. This post is a sponsored review.

simpleCart(js), a very simple but smart shopping cart that was shared on WRD, now has a new version with more features.

The application is an upload & use shopping cart where no database is required and can be integrated into any website so easily.

JavaScript Shopping Cart - simpleCart(js)

It works by including a JavaScript file into the webpages and usage of special classes. As an example:

<div class="simpleCart_items"></div>

will display the full cart, no other code needed.

With the V2, it supports both PayPal + Google Checkout as the payment providers & multiple currencies/tax rates can be used.

CRE Loaded PCI CE is an open source e-commerce software which is the lighter, but still strong, version of a paid solution.

It is designed to run on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server and offers lots of features which you can add more as it comes with the source.

Cre Loaded E-Commerce

The application has an unlimited category system, comes with several shipping provider (free shipping logic is integrated) & payment modules.

It is possible to define "special products" on the main page & per category. Products can be sorted by price, manufacturer, etc.

Some features of CRE Loaded PCI CE:

  • article manager
  • faq manager
  • banner manager
  • multilanguage support
  • wishlists
  • ability to checkout without registration
  • cross-selling
  • & more

It also has a strong admin interface where the store can be managed easily (by multiple admins when needed with the access-level based user system).

A very significant feature of the product is the importance it gives to the security. CRE Loaded PCI CE is compliant with all PCI data security standards (& has a "order fraud screen" in the backend).

With this 5th & last post of the "WRD E-Commerce Week" we will be modifying "our Ajaxed shopping cart" to create a one which is very ideal for designs with limited spaces.

The shopping cart will:

  • be hidden at the top of the page that can be displayed with a show/hide link
  • open when an item is added to the basket & auto-close
  • require a manual "hide" click if opened manually
  • enable us to delete products

Ajaxed Sliding Shopping Cart

Ajaxed Sliding Shopping Cart With jQuery DemoAjaxed Sliding Shopping Cart With jQuery Download

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E-commerce has its own dynamics when compared to the standard shopping experiences. It:

  • is faster
  • requires collection of data
  • includes shipping more frequently
  • has different ways of supporting users
  • & more..

E-Commerce Tips

If the product sold is not something unique, then it probably exists in 100s of other e-commerce websites. So, to differentiate your stores from others, here are 13 tips for a better e-commerce website:

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In this 3rd day of the "WRD E-Commerce Week", we will be adding a chic fly-to-basket effect to our previously created Ajaxed shopping cart using jQuery.

Rather than the complete HTML structure & PHP code that adds/removes the products, we’ll be focusing on the details related with  the effect.

Fly To Basket With jQuery

To findout the details of the complete HTML structure & PHP code, please check our post: Creating A Slick Ajaxed Add-To-Basket With jQuery And PHP. And, a full working example can be found in the download package.

Fly-To-Basket Effect With jQuery DemoFly-To-Basket Effect With jQuery Download

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Using icons in e-commerce websites is almost a standard as users generally search for a shopping cart icon to view the items in the basket or credit card icons to findout if such a payment option exists.

With this 2nd post of E-Commerce Week, here is a collection of free e-commerce icons that you can use in your projects.

WebResourcesDepot E-Commerce Icons (Vectors Included)

E-Commerce Icons

The free e-commerce icon set is created exclusively for WebResourcesDepot by the talented team at IconShock (like promised).

The set comes with 5 icons both in PNG & AI (Illustrator) files so, if wanted, they can be resized or modified easily.

Click here to download WebResourcesDepot E-Commerce Icons!.

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It is a clear fact that Ajaxed interfaces, if not overused, eases using websites so much.

For an e-commerce website, this can mean a better shopping experience for customers where they can concentrate more on the products which may result in better sales.

jQuery Ajax Shopping Cart

This is a detailed tutorial which shows creating an unobtrusive Ajaxed shopping cart using jQuery & PHP and can guide you to Ajaxify any e-commerce software you may already be using or coding.

The main functions of the cart will be adding/removing items to the basket without the need of refreshing the page & displaying the actions with effects.

Other Add-To-Basket Tutorials Built on This Example:

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