Online store CMS - help needed
Like the title says, i’m looking for a good online store CMS that has the following features:
- multiple stores : under one site, i need to have multiple stores. For each of them i have to be able to set an admin account that can only see and modify the products in his store. Above them, there will be a Superadmin account that can modify anything else in the site. Example: On a site I’m selling laptops. I have Apple and Dell as vendors, so they come and introduce their products in their accounts, but all their products will appear combined in the laptops category and also separated in the store’s page.
- affiliates: users can become affiliates. They can select a couple of criteria and a code is generated to use on their sites. If products are sold via those codes, they get a piece of the price. The classic Affiliate module.
- users should be able to create an account where they can be able to see order history and some kind of order tracking (with the current situation of their order: waiting to be processed, processed, sent, etc)
- some of the basic stuff:
- fast content entering form, with just a couple of important fields (title, description, pictures, price) + more advanced options for the vendors with more time at their disposal
- multiple payment and delivery options
- quick chekout form
- newsletter module
- easy to modify code
- etc
Can anyone recommend me such a CMS? Free or paid, that doesn’t really matter, as long as it has the features listed above.
Oh, and one other thing. Can you point me to a good fast working web developper with decent fares? Or at least to some sites where i can find such a guy, except Rentacoder ? I’m looking for someone capable of making a site somewhat similar to this one , with a couple of changes. If you can, please provide the contact details via a comment.
Thanks in advance for your answers, i really hope you can help me with both my problems.
Tags: CMS
dude, I don’t know if Magento has all the features you requested but I am pretty sure they can be implemented easily. As far as I know, Magento is the best eCommerce CSM around - look it up, I think you will be amazed….and it’s free!
I know, I’ve check it out already. But it does not have affiliates and has severe problems with duplicate content. Also has some kind of multiple shops, but not exactly what i need…
For now, Magento and Virtuemart are my candidates, but both of them lack some of the critical features needed …
You may want to check out X-Cart (x-cart.com). Their Pro X-Cart is somethang I’ve used.
With it you get providers who can login and add their own products.
You are the admin and can manage everythang.
The only downside is that you must also manage the monies through your own account(s). And you’ll have to disperse payments to the providers for the products they sold.
However, doing this way you can also charge a percent for hosting their products in your store.
I have a X-Cart Pro, X-Cart, and LiteCommerce. I also have the affiliate module for X-Cart Pro. It works great.
thanks Callie. I’ve been looking at xcart too, but it’s kind of expensive for me…
I think CallieJo is rightly said. Thanks for sharing this information.