Ubercart e-commerce online store solution is a flexible, easy-to-use open source software designed as a module package for Drupal CMS. You can customize Ubercart and flawlessly integrate your store with the rest of your site. In fact, it is designed to be modified, so there is no need to hack into the code to make your changes—just select a module, choose your settings, and you are ready to go.
The Ubercart product catalogue is highly configurable, allowing you to create catalogue pages and a place to list product categories. In addition, Ubercart has a powerful and flexible system for product attributes, offering a feature to change the price, weight, and SKU when the customer adds items to his cart. With default attributes set by the user, many similar products can be added quickly and easily.
The checkout process on Ubercart is flexible, allowing the user to determine the best checkout system for their company and customers. Checkout panes allow for single-page checkout, which makes the process quicker and easier for the customer. For further convenience, Ubercart offers an option to automatically create an account for the customer based on the email address they provide. Returning customers will find a list of previously used addresses to select from, and will be able to pay by a variety of convenient payment methods, including PayPal, Cyber Source, and several other online programs.
Users who are already familiar with Drupal will find that they are quickly up and running with Ubercart. You can even import your products, orders, and customers from your old shopping cart system.
Ubercart Advantages:
- Integration: your shopping cart will fit right in with the rest of your site or community
Quick set up: ready to go out of the box, more so than other products. - jQuery: some great features already built in.
- Active community: online support from other users and the programmers at www.ubercart.org
- Usability: if you are already familiar with Drupal, Ubercart will prove much easier to use.
Ubercart Disadvantages:
- Customization: although the product is customizable, the existing features are sometimes difficult to opt out of, requiring you to overwrite them, which can be frustrating.
- Still in development: there are still plenty of bugs to work out.
- Modules: there are not as many modules as some other products—yet.
Although it is still in alpha, Ubercart’s developers are committed to making this an excellent product, and it is already on its way. With so many customizable features, Ubercart is the way to go to get your store up and running quickly to give your customers a convenient and easy-to-use shopping experience.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I still cannot figure it out why we need these shopping carts when PayPal is providing a payment method by just inserting their own script for free. From what I know, it is not only PayPal who offers this feature. A lot of payment processors are also doing this like AlertPay and so on. I have seen a lot of websites who use one of these free scripts on their websites! Why buy when it is readily available for free?
June 4th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
I kinda like the sound of this, I should tell my mum, she sometimes dabbles in online business’.
Though, like most things, I’m sure there is a free or better yet, open source version floating around. Still in alpha though, which is code for “Breaks whenever it feels like it.”
June 7th, 2008 at 12:29 am
“Still in alpha though, which is code for “Breaks whenever it feels like it.””
Too true. It sounds good but I’d rather not use something that can potentially make a customer’s life more difficult, and possibly result in them just turning away to find an easier alternative.
June 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
fantastic. I have been looking for something like this for a while. Although I have read that some information that would lead me to believe that you can find free places that would work as well. Does anyone know where to find those ones.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I too have the same doubt which postman has raised. When something is offered for free, why should we buy it? I think its waste of time. May be the features may differ. But it should have been rather free. But let us welcome the change and who knows this may have the potential to swipe its competitors.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:19 am
The shopping cart sounds interesting but unfortunately it is still in the development stage which means if you use it on your live website, you could be setting yourselves up for some unknown problems. I prefer to use applications which have been well tested and have been generally found to be secure
June 12th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Interesting customizable features. I had used an ecommerce software in the past that was easy to install but wasn’t the easiest when adding more than one product to the shopping cart.Another factor I look for is whether the software is search engine friendly and has good number of options for payment gateways because my customers, for the niches I used it for, were global and seemed to have different preferred payment processors.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Awesome. I’ve been trying to decide on what to use and I’ll be looking in to this. How does it compare to ZenCart?
June 24th, 2008 at 12:13 am
I agree with the others. I don’t think it would be wise of anyone to use something on their site that is still in the early development stages. Who knows what might happen. I am anxious to see how it turns out though. I’m currently using Zen Cart and I really like it. I’ve also used Feature Cart which is nice as well..
June 24th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I’m with Jherek on this one, as well as the others who mentioned it. While it’s great in theory, I’d rather wait until it’s a little more reliable. The concept itself is a great one though. I like the fact that it seems pretty straight forward, and easy to use. Also, that it’s easily customized.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Hold the boat! I’m not sure why the post author stated Ubercart is still in alpha development, but we actually passed the 1.0 milestone on June 4, 2008. I hope you can update this post to reflect that so folks don’t get the wrong impression that our code is not stable. We’ve actually had folks using Ubercart since the Alpha versions with successful stores, and even now you can find posts in our forums about folks updating from alpha and beta versions to the 1.0 version without any problems. Pretty good for in-development software if you ask me. : )
June 25th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Disclaimer: I am an Ubercart developer.
Just for the record. Ubercart is Open Source ( http://www.opensource.org/ ) which means it is completely free. It is not only free as in free beer, it is free as in free speech.
Also Ubercart 1.0 (stable release, ready for production use) was released June 4th 2008. You can visit http://www.ubercart.org for more up to date information about Ubercart.
Peace,
Andy
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:25 am
Yes Ubercart does sound like an interesting option, with all its advantages and disadvantages mentioned above.