Comments on: Cube Cart

By: lakeguy2302

lakeguy2302 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:50:57 +0000

Cube Cart is by far the easiest one to use and customize. REALLY easy to add products categories and what not.

By: LotsOFish

LotsOFish — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:38:51 +0000

I have used CubeCart (v3) pretty extensively and it’s template system is VERY easy to use. Sure there are thousands of stores out there that are pretty boring and look like one of the basic CC templates, but there are also many others that you can’t even tell are using Cubecart unless you really know what you are looking for. It all comes down to how you design (or redesign) the templates. Maybe you have seen great looking sites and you didn’t even realize it was CubeCart!

By: Ananse

Ananse — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:36:42 +0000

I’m using cubecart right now, not in PHP5 though. It offers just about everything I need except 2 main things. 1) Different taxing zones. I live in CO where there are different tax rates for cities/counties. Cubecart doesn’t offer any kind of support for that (neither does Paypal). 2) The templates are all basically the same. There are different skins available, some of which can be purchased from different developers, but they are all generally the same.
On the other hand, Cubecart does have quite a few mods available. I’m looking at switching to Zen because of their smoother integration with Paypal and possibly some different web templates.

By: Renate

Renate — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:50:15 +0000

The biggest problem with cubecart 4 is the ongoing issue with customers being unable to actually buy anything. I have customers that consistently cannot add items to the cart. Also customers that log in and revert to guest after the next mouse click. This is not a heavily modded store. In fact, excepting the skin, the only store-side mods are related to trying to fix these 2 issues. As long as Devellion continue to ignore these bug reports (and they have been repeatedly reported by various people since the first release of version 4) I cannot and will not recommend this cart to anyone.

I have a lot of time and money invested in this cart, and i have been reluctant to change course in mid-stream, as it were. But it is becoming more and more clear that Devellion have no intention of addressing these issues.

By: Gav

Gav — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:49:17 +0000

Cubecart is a relatively easy system to use; it is nice and quick with great SEO out of the box. Apart from that, the changes from v3 to v4 seemed to be very minor and not worth the money. Don’t get me wrong, I do like Cubecart. Yes most admin tasks are a chore and it is missing some important features that in my mind should be standard. What? Simple things. Thing such as an admin can control the sorting of products (name/price/code) without the need to edit code. Other things such as being able to *easily* edit customer emails without having to hunt through support forums and language files.

The fact that if you ask support anything to do with editing code (e.g. if you wish to change the default sort order of your products) they will simply refuse outright and point you to the community forums. They also instantly refer you to 3rd party mods for extra features. To be honest the shipping options out-of-the box are very weak and have not changed much over the last few years. I find most my sites unusable without installing Estelles All-in-One Shipping mod.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:48:43 +0000

After the 6-month investment to get Cube Cart up and running, we didn’t want to cut our losses and went live with x-cart. We hacked around enough to get it to work, but we dared modify anything while it was live. Unfortunately the company folded within the year (partly due to the inflexible storefront, but mostly due to market issues and poor marketing) and we never implemented a newer storefront.

By: reviewer

reviewer — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:47:47 +0000

CubeCart expects you to have a good understanding of how PHP, MySQL, and GD work for you to set up CubeCart. Downloading CubeCart was simple, but to configure and upload it to your hosting server is very difficult if you’re not fimiliar with this.

By: Brooky

Brooky — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:47:15 +0000

CubeCart’s most flattering feature is the price. There are few shopping cart programs availabe for less than hundreds of dollars. If you wish to have a professional and credible website there are better shopping carts to invest in. The bottom line is that you can get a lot better software and service for just a little more money.