ViArt Shop
August 23, 2009 by: admin
ViArt’s CMS is a PHP based Content Management System designed to make the creation and customisation of a dynamic e-commerce portal as simple and as flexible as possible. As well as full design controls using the dynamic page layout tool, the CMS enables users to customise site navigation, use WYSIWYG HTML Editor, Built-in Classified Ads and File Manager; activate RSS feed support, SEO friendly links; customise META data, hold single/ multiple choice opinion polls, and much more.
ViArt Shop Website: Click here to visit website
Latest Version: 3.4.7
Price:
Hosted: $49/month
Light: $149
Standard: $249
Enterprise: $349
Multiple license: $1,399
Refund Policy: 30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
Trial Version: 30 Day Fully Functional Hosted Trial
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Contact ViArt:
Viart Limited
Scotswood House , Teesdale South
Thornaby Place, Stockton-on-Tees
TS17 6SB England
In terms of features, I think there is no cart script that has so many. I really think it is the best around. Prices: a best buy! No question asked! Support…that is their weak point. More than 3 days for presale question, excuse me! Presale means jump the gun, answer right now. It is the door to sales. Forum is lousy, very lousy. I have seen much much better. Product is one thing, support is everything!
In the past month I have installed demos of 14 different carts and tested online demos of a half dozen others. These have been PGP, ASP and .NET stores with prices ranging from free to US$995. There are some good ones (and bad!), but ViArt, by a wide margin, is the best value I’ve found. It is lacking in very few areas and pre-sales support has been incredible. This is a new product and I am fully confident that the few features they haven’t addressed yet will be added in short order. But believe me, there are very few areas lacking. And it offers things that the others don’t, at any price. These guys are good! The product options support is the most flexible I’ve seen although it doesn’t yet support stock tracking on options. But I’ll wager that it will be added soon. These guys listen to their customers!! They offer substantial reseller discounts and multiple site licenses. With HTML templates and CSS this cart is easy to customize and superb SEO tools (but no static HTML). The CMS portal is icing on the cake. It includes events, news, user polls, classified ads and more. The Enterprise version is a substantial upgrade and adds a support forum and trouble ticket system. But even the Enterprise edition costs less than many of the basic shopping carts from other vendors and includes a premium support package. Overall, a superior product with an inexpensive price tag. They really should charge a lot more. Get it quick before they come to their senses!
I am in the process of researching for a shopping cart software, and I came across ViArt. Wow! everything I was looking for I found here. I tested it on their site, mucking about with all kinds of different options and possibilities, everyday I learned something new and exciting. Unlike others here, I got tremendous support from their staff, they were prompt, professional and their answers were accurate. I have not yet purchased the product (March 08), only because I need to get the 2 tier Tax sorted out with this software. It can only handle 1 tax currently. I require 2 taxes and as separate entities. The product for this price is unbeatable
I really like this software. It is very flexible and I have found that it performs almost every function I need for day to day maintenance tasks. I have also noticed that updates and new feature are being added very frequently, sometimes twice a month! I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend ViArt Shop to anyone: the support is fast and very helpful, the flexibility of the desing is great and the speed at which it runs compared to Zen Cart (which I used previously) is astounding.
There are a bewildering array of shopping cart programs available to Internet merchants like myself, ranging from free to extremely expensive. Last year a friend and I investigated a number of them in preparation for a major revamping of my primary business web site.
We found that there are a lot of shopping carts that do some things well but very few that do everything well.
The reason we eventually picked ViArt is because it had all of the features I wanted at a reasonable price ($349 for the “top of the line” Enterprise version).
* Extremely customizable (not locked into a small number pre-designed formats)
* Unlimited number of products
* Unlimited number of categories
* Unlimited number of products per category
* Unlimited number of categories per product
* Bulk upload and download of product catalog and categories in comma-separated (.csv) format that can be easily viewed and edited in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel.
* Integration with PayPal, Google Checkout, Google Base, and Google Analytics.
* Search engine optimized (SEO) page names
* Ability to show category images (rather than just product images) on home page.
For a full feature list, you can click here.
Here are three of my web sites that I am using ViArt software on. Two of the three are using the free version! (Free has all the features of Enterprise except you are limited to 50 products.)
http://www.inkjetprinthead.com/
http://www.characterofficeproducts.com/
http://www.copiermanual.com/
If you are interested in learning more about using or purchasing ViArt, please don’t hesitate to contact me. (I can sell it to you cheaper than you can buy it directly from ViArt. I can also provide training in using ViArt.)