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Actinic e-commerce any good?

Another place you might ask at is TotalWebTalk
They have users there that do all kinds of things.

I've had loads of experience with actinic, which version is your client planning on using?

it doesn't have any killer features when put next to any half decent OScommerce store (my experience is of versions 4 - 7).  People like because it's supposedly very easy to set up your store and get trading (but probably no easier than any half decent os commerce blah blah).

the downsides of actinic is seemingly endless variations on their very bland templates, if one wants an actinic store that looks nice, they'll need to find somebody who specialises in custom templates for actinic, which adds to the cost of running the thing.

there are plenty of plugins available for it from www.mole-end.biz and whatever site a bloke called Norman Rouxel has.

The Actinic community is pretty good for tips and trouble shooting, but they're slow to respond (especially the older versions).

did you say a £400 price tag?  the latest version 8 is £399 + vat and you could get them down to £350 if you ask nicely or go to a reseller.

aye.  from a developer point of view it's a pain in the arse (until one gets to know it).  

If i had the money I'd buy the developer because there's a lot of work available in custom actinic templates and providing actinic support, however, it's over a year since I've worked with Actinic based sites so the learning curve i went through 3 years ago would start all over again (not a fun prospect in the short term).

it's not bad once you get know it.

Have you seen this one yet? http://www.opencart.com/

thanks Webnauts as detailed in the above post it was about that specific software as thats what the clients had (and they had no plans to change) Even though its clunky I still tend to use os commerce myself.

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