Best Open-Sourced .Net based E-Commerce store solution for selling Jewelry?

Question

I'm currently designing a shopping cart based jewelry site.
I've tried the latest version of dashcommerce but it's very buggy and I keep not being able to get it to work quite right.
I've also seen Nopcommerce but haven't tried it out yet and I'd like a few other options before I decide on my next solution.

I'd love a .net based e-commerce site that makes skinning easy. An active community would be great, and I'm looking for free because as of right now I don't know how much product will be purchased through the store and I don't want to pay a monthly fee which may cost me more than I make from the online sales.

What's a good free and open-source ASP.net ecommerce solution doesn't give as many options as I would have hoped but I did learn about Nopcommerce.

Answer 1

DashCommerce it is a good shopping cart solution. Edit: If you are having problems with the current release I'd suggest a previous version. I like what they have done with the project when I last saw it, but I will admit it was a while ago.

Answer 2

There's really not a whole lot of .NET Ecommerce freebies out there. Here are a few options.

DotShoppingCart, it looks pretty nice. Has a built in CMS, and you can have it hosted for you.

Suteki Shop is an eCommerce application written in .NET 3.5 using MVC. The orginal aim is to write a site for a fashion retail business.

nopcommerce is an open source e-commerce solution. I've played with this, has alot of features and was the easiest of the .net applications to get up and running.

You mentioned dashcommerce, so I won't link to that one. But it's actually one of the thousand pound gorillas in the business so I'm surprised that you found it was buggy.

Good luck, and hope this helps you some!

Answer 3

I tried everything out there and ended up rolling my own. Refer to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1756259/creating-a-ecommerce-application-how-long-did-it-take-you/1756580#1756580

Answer 4

I'm currently evaluating shopping cart solutions too... I was half way through comparing the features of dashCommerce to our current solution (ASPDotNetStorefront - avoid like the plague!) and found that it (dashCommerce) has been discontinued!!

Anybody know what happened there, and if there's any chance somebody will get it up and running again. Sucks as it was looking like a good contender.

Any other solutions out there worth looking at - paid or free?

cheers greg