Backend Only Ecommerce Solution?

I am having a problem finding a shopping cart that matches all my SEO needs. I would rather manage the front end of my site so i can get it the way i want, yet i dont want to build a shopping cart solution and back-end from scratch when there are plenty that are sufficient.

I would like the following on the front end:

add to cart link
my account link
cart link (would like to show cart qty)

Anyone know of a good way to accomplish this? Thanks!

I feel like a broken record here, but X-Cart is the best all around shopping cart that I've found. There's a new release in the next couple of months, v4.2, which will include SEF url support. There is also a free SEO module released for X-Cart 4.0 and 4.1, called XCSEO Basic (it's open source). Then you have commercial alternatives, such as DSEFU Pro, XCSEO Pro, and CDSEO Pro, ranging from $50 to $200.

XCSEO Basic and DSEFU Pro both give you automatic SEF URLs, with the page ID embedded in the URL.
XCSEO Pro and CDSEO Pro are both more advanced, giving you control over the entire url string, page title, meta description, meta keywords, nofollow, noindex, link hover-text, and much more.


The best solution with X-Cart, is to purchase, then modify it's stock skin to remove everything that you *don't* want. Then you can start to style it however you need. Or if you find a 3rd party skin that you like, you can purchase that and then trim down. Or you can even implement your own design into X-Cart, or hire someone to implement for you.

There are also open source alternatives, such as Zen Cart, osCommerce, Magento Commerce (the best of those three, but slow and hard to extend). I personally don't find too much about the open-source solutions that impresses me.

One of the things that draws me to X-Cart, is the very active user community, and the wide selection of 3rd party developed addons. Many open-source communities have trouble rivaling X-Cart's community, and X-Cart's forums are customers only! (that means they have a *ton* of customers to be so active)

Good luck finding your solution

Yes you are a broken record. X-Cart is not what i want. Its quite clear your a sales agent for them, since you're to be the only one who's touting x-cart.

The only shopping cart system that has SEO exactly like i need is Magento. Im going with Magento. Plus its robust and FREE. Love that!

no, i'm not a sales agent for x-cart, i'm a 3rd party developer and a user of x-cart. i've used magento, it's the only other ecommerce platform i would consider against x-cart, but it's too slow and i can't stand working with zend framework.

but agreed, magento does have a great feature list, and does seem pretty robust. if they can get it up to par regarding speed, it'll be quite the software package.