Ashop Commerce Review
Ashop Commerce is a company out of Sydney, Australia. This is a review of their Ashop Commerce shopping cart software.
Highlights
The software can be customized for use with Dreamweaver, Frontpage, and other HTML editing programs. The product pages are typically HTML with a space for the product to be listed whereas the other pages (such as the checkout) are more versatile.
When you build a website with the Ashop program, you generate multiple templates for the different pages. Users can build HTML pages with product codes inserted into a specific place in the template.
Product descriptions within the dynamic catalog can include HTML (meaning they also have the option of including alt tags, meta tags, and other HTML elements).
One interesting feature of the Ashop Commerce shopping cart is that was designed to tie into Ebay stores. The software also allows for products to be listed in more than one category.
The company offers what they term a “dynamic catalog” where the shopping cart program generates product pages and serves them to the browser in HTML format.
Product order forms are static and can be inserted into newsletters and emails.
This cart has functionality for digital products such as e-books.
Limitations
Unlike some of the other search engine friendly carts reviewed on this site, the products/company website does not fully discuss the features related to optimization. The extent of SEO features built into this product remains to be seen.
This shopping cart was not designed as an SEO shopping cart and resembles a non-SEO shopping cart more so than not. The feature that makes this search friendly is that HTML pages can be built and customized as needed by the user.
AShop Deluxe does not create breadcrumbs. However, users have the option of inserting a category tree which can be up to three levels deep.
The AShop Deluxe cart uses PHP scripts and a mySQL database. It also requires more advanced knowledge than simple shopping cart back-end content management options.
On the other hand, if you are looking for a search engine friendly cart where you can outright purchase the software and not be forced to purchase monthly hosting, this may be for you. Note that back-end management is handled with an plug-in add-on.
Overall
This is an appropriate choice for those want to install the software and work with it from there. There is no back-end system. It remains to be seen whether Ashop Commerce will be a competitive SEO shopping cart.
Visit the site: http://www.ashopcommerce.com/
