CubeCart 5 Beta
When we opened our e-commerce store almost 2 years ago I spent a lot of time researching shopping cart software. Now I knew this would be both an important decision. Shopping cart software is a major influence on the success (or failure) of any e-commerce website.
In the end of quite of bit of research I ended up with CubeCart version 4. Version 3 of the software had been around and was widely used. Version 4 was recently released and the software seemed to be the right mix between features and price.
After almost 2 years on CubeCart 4 my assessment is still the same. It is very solid and has really great features, but there is always room for improvement. A few items were missing, and yes, many of them could be added with “mods”, but I prefer to keep the software as close to original as possible. The reason is for security, upgrades, and support. You start adding and changing code and you could be opening up unknown security issues, and upgrades become a major headache as well.
CubeCart 5 beta has just been announced. I checked out the demo and read about the new features. I am very excitied about this new release. I really re-affirms my original choice to go with CubeCart. The company is not sitting back and watching, they are continuing to improve and innovate. This is exactly what you want your software vendor to be doing. Now I won’t be one of the first to upgrade, I will let the bugs get settled and squashed for a bit, but I am very excited to take the next step with our e-commerce store, and I think CubeCart 5 is going to be a big part of the process again.