In shopping cart, cart pro, designer and designer pro? Seems to be 4 programs that all do the same thing.....

Hiya again Chuck,

Cart and Cart Pro are basically the same "type" of program, but Cart Pro has many more features and supports multiple carts.

Designer and Designer Pro are the same setup as the Cart, the Pro version has more features by far and can edit themes for both the basic and pro versions of the Cart software. The Designer though is only for editing the themes and most anything to do with how your cart will look visually. Nothing to do with the content (products) at all, only styling and visual aesthetics.

Hope that helps

If you're looking into which one to get, it would depend on what features you really need. The Pro versions are far worth the money spent for them and getting better all the time, new updates coming soon in the future as they start working on those 2 programs again very soon. Enjoy either way and take the trial versions for a spin to see what the differences are

If you are selling a few simple products, with only one or two alternatives each (ie) T shirts : blue green yellow red, Basic scc will probably suffice.

If you want to become a serious seller, lots of products, lots of options, lots of detailed information for clients to browse before ordering, go for the pro

As a retailer with over 30 years experience, first impressions count if your site looks interesting and informative (its your shop window) clients will come in and browse around, if it looks boring or bland, they wont bother

The extra expense for pro, is worth while , as for the designer shopkeepers change their window displays on a regular basis, and thats what the designer does for an internet shop

This might help too, the product pages of the software have comparisons on them that you can see what's different in the basic versus pro versions:

Shopping Cart Creator vs. Pro
http://www.coffeecup.com/shopping-cart/ scroll down the page a bit.

Shopping Cart Designer vs. Pro
http://www.coffeecup.com/shopping-cart-designer-pro/ again scroll down the page a bit.

Thanks for the input.

The intent is to eventually have aprox 1,000-2,000 products for sale basically by mail order. I also have a merchants account to take VISA and Master Card as well as Discover. Maybe one day they will get that far but for now PayPal covers that too.

I use categories now (see www.george-conus.com) This site is coming down and a new one going up. I have lost many of my pix and info, hence the need to redo. The original Conus site was built with Visual Site maker as was my Band sight thecountryfeverband.com



Will be looking for much help.

Hiya Chuck,

The george-conus website doesn't work for me at all so unable to check that. Does that site have all your images on it? If so take them from there, same with the info if it's on that site, just copy and paste it into a text file for safe keeping for when you're ready for it. Don't paste text directly from the web to the shop though as you could accidentally copy hidden code that might mess it up.

Your band website is ok, I'm not partial to the coloring, but that's just a preference on my part. I would highly suggest you center that website though as people like me on a 24" or larger monitor (smaller ones too) will have it setup all the way to the left which is awkward. If you center it, then it works for pretty much any monitor size width wise.