Exploring various shopping cart options for E-commerce

[ajharper]

Hi everyone,
I am setting up an online business, and I am wondering which shopping cart programs are the best. I want to sell eBooks and other information products, as well as tangible products. Also, I do not have my own merchant account. I would love to hear from anyone who has experience with various shopping carts. Thanks!

[colenn]

Hi, I don't have much experience but I've tried osCommerce and it seems good and easy enough to be used for an online store. Its popularity provides wide spectar of templates, tools and mods for payment, shipping or just visual. There are many e-commerce programs. I think you should check on http://www.hotscripts.com for more complete list of offered.

[natasha85]

o it's one of the best open source resources you can find for e-commerce,

osCommerce's definitely a great help to young ones penetrating the e-commerce market, lotsa successful websites originally started with osCommerce, some are still on the osCommerce platform till today!

[peachey]

So what is the real diffrence between o and e commerce?? I guess I could go look it up but from your view points I was wondering.

And why choose to start with one and then go to the other??