Ok, my www.babyslingoutlet.com site has its SSL cert installed and everything except for the products (lol) is ready to go!
A quick bit of background on me: I was a web programmer and loved working in ASP.NET, so naturally I will only look at .NET shopping cart ecommerce platforms. My first - www.storefront.net was launched in March 2005. They concentrate on flashy marketing but the service was terrible. The product also lacked in what I wanted. Next up was BVC5, which I launched about a year ago in February 2007. Much, much better! Very SEO-friendly, developer-friendly and extremely responsive development team. A few other Storefront.net users followed me.
However, there are some major features that I thought would be in the product by now STILL missing. I need product kits/bundles, gift-wrapping options, and AJAX-everywhere. 
Aside from a little AJAX, BVC5 doesn’t have any of that, and no gift registry, or easily maintainable gift cards/certificates.
I am about to launch www.babyslingoutlet.com using www.aspdotnetstorefront.com. What appealed to me was their nice store user interface, and gift registry options. I’ll try it out with my outlet store and report back.
Today I just noticed that AbleCommerce (http://www.ablecommerce.com/) came out with version 7.0. With a slick new website homepage and even an improved user shopping cart design, I am hooked! So far, it has everything I wanted except for highly-customizable URLs but that could be in the works.
Here’s a sample demo site that was created for me in just a few seconds, it will work for 30 days from today:
http://ac7.ablecommerce.com/700029074207/DIDYMOS-Waves-Baby-Wrap-P44.aspxI love it can show product inventory, AJAX so it updates the photos, price from the swatches right out of the cart. BVC5 does this but not from swatches. Yet another highly desirable Able Commerce feature is when adding a product to your cart, you can first choose a print, and then dynamically the page will show what sizes are available! Sooo nice and a feature I always wanted.The Product Rating system is more thorough - allows for Name, Location, and Title along with Rating and Review. BVC5 only allows Rating and Review. Just a sample of little things that I like.
I love the improved Wish Cart. On the “wish list” you can set Priority and Comment for each item! I’m pretty positive their Wish List is a workable Gift Registry. Something I also love is separate Gift Options for each product, and you can see photos of different gift wrap colors. Easily put a free Gift message with no gift wrap, or add gift wrap for a certain amount. As a baby shop that has alot of baby shower gifts people buy, this is really needed! And on the same Checkout page, if you have multiple items in your cart, you can ship them to different addresses. Storefront.net did this, but I never saw that BVC5 offered this feature. And our customers did indeed use the ship to different addresses feature when we had it, so this was missed! It even allows for special Delivery Instructions via a note with the order.
The checkout process seems to be all on one page, which is pretty cool.
Well, I didn’t intend this to be such a long “review”, but I’ll definitely add more to this as I play more with Able Commerce and Aspdotnetstorefront. So far, Able Commerce has my best vote out of all the top 4 ASP.NET shopping carts!
