After some serious research and some good recommendations from friends and colleagues, thanks for that, I ended up selecting oscommerce as platform for blacknwhite.se (closed).
A major reason for using oscommerce is that it’s the platform for blacknwhite.dk (closed) and looking through the check list from the last post:
- User friendly front end and back end – prefer to see most of the information on one page instead of many, like tabs. Check
- Newsletter subscribe/unsubscribe – WYSIWYG newsletter designer, overview of subscribers Check
- Swedish and Danish language pack Check
- Swedish and Danish currency Check
- Payment gateway to Swedish to hosts like wannafind, payer (se), epay, payson etc. On the To Do list
- Easy to design in CSS files, template files or HTML files Easy? but possible
- Easy to create extra information pages with WYSIWYG editing Check
- Product description with WYSIWYG editor Check
- Easy cross sell feature Check
- Free templates for download and easy installation Haven’t investigated this yet
- More than one image on the description Check
- Lightbox display of images – fast, neat and editable Lightbox installed but only working on some pages
- Who’s online feature – real time view of who is visiting, are they registered customer, what they buy, where they come from etc. Check
- For the future a Live help feature There is possibility for this
The oscommerce is maybe the e-commerce platform that started it all. Now days there are a few different versions built on oscommerce:
- oscommerce.com – the original
- uniquefree.dk – a danish version and the one I used as foundation for blacknwhite.se (closed)
- zen-cart.com
- oscmax.com
- tomatocart.com
- and more…