CoffeeCup Shopping Cart Creator Pro for Windows

User Reviews

• Flexible and easy

  JJBJammaOctober 18, 2012

  Pros

  I was able to quickly put up an online shop to sell my t-shirts. With configurable options such as shipping and drop down fields it was perfect for my needs.

  Cons

  Wish it included more themes but with the use the designer I could customize the background to match my logo

  Summary

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• Easy, quick and reliable in every way

  fixtronixSeptember 9, 2012

  Pros

  Simple, WYSIWYG process On-Line HUMAN Support that gets 20 out of 10 Customisable in so many ways One-Time purchase, no monthly fees AT ALL Extensive list of optional themes that make it even easier

  Cons

  For the novice or someone wanting a working e-commerce site that's flexible and user friendly, there are no cons

  Summary

  So easy to use, so intuitive and so well supported by the developer, this software is worth every cent.

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• DON'T DO IT!!

  ITdoesntworkMarch 20, 2012

  Pros

  Easy to build a "basic" site

  Cons

  If you are in the business of selling products and care about your customers finding you with your product name/image, THEY WONT BE ABLE TO!!! The software just carelessly renames your images in the build so google will never find your product image. I called Coffeecup support and was told I have to build a separate website using their website designer and load my images there as well. Are you kidding me?!?!?!?

  Summary

  Garbage

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• Not worth the money

  derricksdaddyJune 24, 2011

  Pros

  Easy to use Fast updates to site

  Cons

  Price Fixable bugs Limited themes Not very flexible

  Summary

  Coffeecup has many good products...this is not one of them. For the price I expected a better one but most of the functions in this program are fixed and and over-automated. The only way to change them is to buy the shopping cart designer pro for another 89 bucks. If it really was a pro software program then the designer program should be integrated into it to make it worthy of $129 price tag. It is very easy to use especially for someone who has never used this kind of software. Adding, deleting or editing your products can be quick and once your ftp is set up, you can publish the site in a flash. There are several bugs that an update would fix. The biggest one being that you are not always returned to the category you are working on when adding, deleting or editing items. Also the price box is loaded with $0.00 and you must delete that before putting your price in. The skew is automatic which is convenient but if you only want a 3 or 4 digit skew then you must delete the preloaded skew on every new item to input your own. It doesn't recognize your skew setup, only the count. The themes are very limited and you must pay 9 bucks per additional theme if you don't like what's included. The items cannot have multiple choices unless each choice is the same price or is an increase in price. Example: Set of 3 items for $10...cannot set up 'purchase items separately' in shopping cart because sold separately the items would be less than $10 so you must start with lowest priced product then offer the set in the shopping cart at an additional cost or list the set as a separate item. There is not an option to set up all items in a category similarly. Example: You want all the items to have the option to allow the shopper to choose quantity. You have 100 items, so you must go to the options page for each and every item and check the box "Let buyer choose" [quantity]. There are not a lot of shopping cart stand-alone software programs available and if you can put up with these issues while using the trial then you may be somewhat happy with your purchase. But there are a lot of online programs for a lot less.

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• Better, but NOT worthy of the 'PRO' tag.

  FREEDOM_GUYDecember 21, 2010

  Pros

  Easy to use interface Quick payment infrastructure

  Cons

  VERY basic configuration for both shipping and taxes. Stock control useless if you have product options. No ability to take product options to selected products. Text editor worse than useless.

  Summary

  I had high hopes for this product, but lack of detail lets it down in many aspects. Giving something a 'PRO' tag gives the impression that the product is a fully fledged business product that will perform in a wide diversity of businesses, but sadly that is NOT the case. The shipping and the tax calculations are both very basic and whilst a good improvement over the basic version, still leave a lot to be desired. The pro version boasts stock control, but if will only deplete the basic product, making it completely useless if you have product options.For example if you were selling shirts it would just deplete the shirts, rather than than the individual sizes, Product options cannot be allocated to specific products like they can in other carts. There is a 'field sharing' facility which only works if your product options are the same for every single product within a category, but that doesn't reflect the diversity of products in the real world. Perhaps the worst feature of the pro version of Cart Creator is its very basic text editor, which doesn't even feature a text alignment button. Great if you ONLY want your text aligned on the left. Likewise there is no picture import in the editor for adding graphics or photos etc into the item description. Apart from very basic home businesses, the editor alone makes the current pro version totally useless for serious business use. Whilst Coffeecup makes some good little programs, the PRO tag they have given to this product is at best misleading. For the serious business user that needs a good WORKABLE solution to get them on the net at low cost, there are many better alternatives to this cart out there.

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