A good ecommerce alternative to Magento?

Question

I been dealing with Magneto for the last 6 months now and its a real headache, always some type of error, slow, bloated, dead community and overly complex to customize (and im a designer...)

I look at others like zencart but seem kinda dated compared to magento, but are their any other solutions to replace magento thats better and with a good online community?

the main selling points im looking for are configurable items (as in options for products), good online community and not so hard to customize or a nice amount of templates available.

has to be free and hopefully open source

and if it helps this is for a custom car accessories store

Answer 1

have you tried os-commerce

By the they all are off the shelf solutions being opensource is a major advantage but sometimes you are better off developing your own custom solution.

Answer 2

As Asad, the next alternative to Magento is perhaps os-commerce... But Magento is great!

Answer 3

If you use Drupal then you could use Übercart. A video on how to set it up and use it can be found at : Drupal Demo - Building a Small Business Site.

Answer 4

www.shopping-cart-reviews.com - filter by your criteria and get a ton of carts