Tribulant Shopping Cart

  • Hello,

    I’ve been digging around for a shopping cart that doesn’t completely rely on the “each product is a post” model but instead has it’s own product overview/categories pages via shortcodes and the like. I’ve found a few and have had mixed results (some lack a feature that others have and vice-versa). Some are just downright frightening. ??

    One that I found outside of the WP index of plugins is Tribulant’s shopping cart plugin:

    https://tribulant.com/plugins/view/10/wordpress-shopping-cart-plugin

    Cost isn’t so much an issue, and this seems inline with what the better “free” carts charge to get a full feature set.

    The demo worked well and had a nice backend.

    My concern is this – so far every plugin I’ve used, free or paid, has had an entry in the WP plugin index on this site. As far as I can tell, this one doesn’t. They also don’t have any support forums or the like on their own site. I’m a bit leery of anything where there’s no public feedback on a product.

    Anyone use this or know of anyone that has? Anyone know anything about Tribulant?

    Thanks!

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  • Hi, Sporkme –

    I, too, landed on Tribulant’s shopping cart for my ecommerce needs. I’ve run through a bunch of plugins, from simple to complex, and have even done stand-along OSCommerce builds.

    I’m pretty happy with Tribulant’s offering. My client’s ecomm desires are typically an integration of blog/website and conventional e-shopping, and I think Tribulant’s offering fits that bill.

    I particularly like that, while it does use Posts/Pages as product items, it will create and maintain those automatically… yet you can get at them to edit and modify if you want.

    So, enter twenty products in the Product editor, and you also end up with twenty Posts – you can see and edit/embellish them in the Post editor if you want.

    I’ve used the Tribulant plugin on three sites so far, and have been pretty happy. The crew that built and maintains it is in South Africa, so there’s a support-lag… I’ve gotten used to posting any support needs before I go to bed, and I usually have a response when I wake up in the morning.

    They haven’t caught up with the v3 of the USPS API… so as of this morning I still can’t use USPS shipping calculations; but I know they’re working on it, and they *did* just add UPS shipping, so I’m happy about that.

    Anyway – all in all, I’m pretty happy, and am sticking with them for a while – getting ready to do the developer/unlimited license, I think…

    Hope that helps – good luck!

    Thread Starter sporkme

    (@sporkme)

    Thanks for the info. I bought a license to give it more of a test-drive and it’s worked well so far. The “variations” had a glitch in the ajax display of the pricing, and there was an issue with a new cart for non logged-in users, and they quickly emailed me a patched version.

    Overall it feels much more solid than the other 5 or 6 I tried out – I didn’t run into any “Oh my lord, this error is embarrassing” issues.

    I’m finding some elements hard to style (no class, have to edit some php), but that’s partially due to the hackish theme the site uses – others might not find they need to style some of the things I’m styling.

    My only real complaint at this point is the licensing and having to enter a code. I generally run a staging and a production site for clients, but it looks like to do that I’ll need to buy two licenses.

    I’ve been doing something similar, with a license for myself and purchasing new licenses for clients. I use my license for the staging site, and the client’s license on the production… then I have to email Tribulant to retire/redeploy my license on the next development site. It’s getting tedious – I’m ready to go unlimited from my next build onward.

    For me, it’s now either easy-e-commerce via a PayPal-only plugin code, or full-featured-e-commerce Tribulant’s offering — I don’t see much in between worth messing with.

    I do wish the docs were heavier – I like my reference materials – but, to be fair, everything pretty much works right out of the box, so maybe it’s a “you don’t *need* no stinkin’ manual…” situation…

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