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Ampa:
A potential client has asked me to look at their e-commerce site, which is powered by MonsterCart, an asp cart script.

I've been searching for some time now, and am not coming up with any good info about this particular script... no homepage ( www.monstercart.com is just a holding page ), no forum posts are talking about it, no entry on Wikipedia, no faq!

Anyone heard of this software before?
Is it still supported?
If not, would they be advised to transition to some other cart system?
If so, which do you recommend?

Thanks, Ampa

mouser:
DC member Veign has been posting on his blog recently about the e-commerce system "Magento":
http://www.veign.com/blog/2009/08/magento-helpful-list.html

He usually has a very good sense for these things.

Veign:
Is this it:
http://www.monstercart.com/2/monster-cart-technical-specification.aspx

You said ASP, do you mean ASP.NET.  

Here's some info on the ASP version:
http://www.findmysoft.com/scripts/MonsterCart-download.html
(which appears to have been made by 1-shoppingcartsoftware.com - a company no longer in existence)

Based on what I have found I would switch them as fast as you can.  A shopping cart that apparently either was never officially released or no longer supported is an accident (read that as security breach) waiting to happen.

I would look into Magento as its a pretty robust system that is gaining steam.  mouser already posted my summary blog post on Magento to help get users started.

Ampa:
Yes - the links that you found are all that I could find when I searched earlier.

Ooops. Not sure that I realised that there is a difference between ASP and ASP.NET - have never used either!

I agree with your assessment that it is a disasterous platform on which to build a shop, so shall be looking into the alternatives (starting with Magneto).

Any thoughts on other systems - I have a friend who uses ZenCart for example?

Veign:
I have been shying away from Zen Cart since they have not pushed an update in years (sometime in 2007).  The lack of updates worries me and I can't, with a clear mind, put clients on it.  This is why I like Magento so much: looks good, extensible, well supported and actively developed.

Due take note of the requirements for Magento - it will not work on every server.

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