Recently a client asked me to build an e-commerce site using Zen-Cart.
At the beginning I tried to convince him to use zWebstore but there were two problems.
The first was he has a great number of products and since zWebstore is a commercial product it was too expensive.
I don't want to discuss the developer choice but the more products you have the more you pay.
The second was that there was not very much documentation about it.
Probably it's a good product and they can help you on developing the site, but who knows!
I was a bit disappointed to use Zen-Cart because I know that everything is very easy to do with Zikula.
In fact, after a couple of hours I understood that it would have been a nightmare.
The code is not separated from the graphics... there are hundreds of files... the admin interface is very bad...everything became a problem.
Even if there is a very good manual and a great forum I took 3 days to understand where to change the logo.
Ok, maybe I am a bit stupid, but it happens...
Now that the site is at the end it looks fine, everything works and there are a few great plugins like one for importing and exporting products in csv format that are very confortable for working with it.
But believe me, when I went back here I started to breathe and I felt home again!
Thanks to all the crew that developed Zikula and PN for long years, in my opinion is REALLY THE BEST :)
Edited by arkanoyd on Mar 12, 2011 - 08:20 PM.
