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June 20th, 2009 by Chris 9 months ago I was asked by the CEO of Interspire to review their shopping cart software. I was provided with a copy of the software for free and set about doing my customary review process. Now, for those who do not know, I do not merely play with a demo to do a review, I actually build a site, so it takes awhile. Still, it doesn’t normally take 9 months. The reason it has taken so long in this case is because I have been waiting for a feature, which thus far has been vaporware. More on that later.

This nulled version is good. I compared it with my own and the nuller did a really good job. The installer works perfectly. I recommend you buy the starter cart to get access to the Interspire forums, templates, and future versions and then use the keygen's included with the nulled versions to upgrade your cart. Fully Responsive Interspire Template Invelo is a project started by myself, Dustin Holdiman, lead developer of Think Genius, and Jonathan Catoe, lead designer of Catoe Group, to create the best possible product based off of Interspire Shopping Cart for all those who love the system and want to continue using it!

Pricing Lets start out with what is perhaps the biggest complaint with Interspire, the pricing. This software is not cheap. For the purposes of this review I was given their ultimate edition, which clocks in at $1800, plus more if you want to be able to download upgrades. For a small time person wanting to merely get their feet wet with ecommerce, this would seem daunting. Still, in the grand scheme of things, $1800 is not a whole lot. You’d pay more typically to have a custom cart or site developed, and you’ll likely make back your expenditure in no time. I like to tell people how I started my first ecommerce site (not my first profitable site, I took profits from my content sites to start it) with an initial outlay of $1200.

That covered all my initial inventory, merchant account, SSL certificate, I used my existing servers for hosting, did my own design, and used free OScommerce. This site made $500,000 in gross revenue over the next 6 months. In retrospect I could have spent far more to launch the site and still been wildly profitable. It isn’t so much their upfront pricing that bothers me but rather their upgrade pricing, and in fact I’ve seen about it from other users. Because I’ve been sitting on this review for 9 months I’ve actually experienced having to upgrade a couple times, and while it was free for me as part of the review, I do know that otherwise it would have been an egregious cost. When first ordering your license you can sign up for maintenance that allows you access to upgrades for the period you request. This will add on an additional 20% to the product cost if you want a year of upgrades.

But, it appears to me this covers only minor upgrades, not major upgrades. So if the software is updated from 4.0.5 to 4.0.6 it is covered, but you don’t get the 5.0 upgrade, because that is a major one. Most other places will give you the upgrade for free within a year, that is fairly standard in the software Industry, Interspire has only a 60 day window, after that you have to pay for it (but they give you a 50% discount on the retail price, still, it is a lot of money).

Essbase excel add in 11.1 2.2. On October 13th 2008 Interspire officially released version 4.0, it reached 4.0.6 by the end of March 2009, when 5.0 was released, forcing people to reup. My charge would have been around $1200 had I not gotten it for free. Furthermore, I couldn’t see what justified this being 5.0 instead of 4.1. When vBulletin (and I know I mention Jelsoft a lot, but they really are the pinnacle of website software in terms of customer service and whatnot) does a major upgrade, you know it, the new version is entirely different, it is an event. Interspire 5.0 has a lot of new features, but it is not a major upgrade in my opinion. It seems to me like Interspire knows what their upgrade policy is and that they define product release milestones not by any accepted programming standards, but rather by what their budgetary needs are. I do not like this.

I do not like this one bit. $1800 is a lot of money, but if it is a one time fee it is easy to justify, if Interspire is expecting you pay that every 6 months, then you’ve got a very high cost of ownership. Its one thing if they want to jump from 4.0.6 to 5.0 quickly if 5.0 is a major overhaul that changes systems to their core, it is a completely other thing where in any other software package the changes like with what you get with 5.0 would be considered a 4.1. Now, as I said above, there are different pricing levels with different features, there are differences between the packages, the main one being product quantities. The cheapest package is $295 and includes capability for 100 products. The next one is $1000 and includes capabilities for 5000 products, and then the ultimate one I got that allows for unlimited products. There are other small differences and I urge you to before making a purchase (if any).

Installing, Upgrading and Importing Interspire has a very easy to use install & upgrade process, as I’ve mentioned I had to do it a couple times, very easy both times. My only issue is with the templates as I will mention below. Quick fast easy, no complaints here at all. They also have importers for OScommerce, X-Cart, and CubeCart. I’ve not actually tried any of these.

I’d be willing to try them if I had more licenses to play with and/or if Interspire started supporting dimensional shipping with UPS, but they are available. Customer Experience My main concerns are how easy is it to find a product on the site, add that product to the cart, and then buy the product. It is amazing how many carts mess this up. Interspire does a pretty good job with all of the above.

There are certain additions I’ve made in all carts I use to make it even better, I wouldn’t expect the software to do these, because for all I know I’m the only one that wants them, but I do find them incredibly useful. 1.Really, really, explain to people what the CVV is when checking out with a credit card. I mean, show a picture (wikipedia has some as I recall), it is on the front on AMEX, and on the back on Visa, Mastercard, and Discover.

It is amazing how many people get confused on this, and then don’t check out. Interspire could do more here. 2.Make the final checkout button very prominent and flashy, flashing even. It is amazing how many people get that far and then don’t click it, this is more a problem with OScommerce and their final confirmation screen that looks like a receipt but isn’t, but still, it can’t hurt any cart. A small template change I could do, or Interspire could do.

If they do it it is permanent, if I do it I gotta redo it after every upgrade. 3.Stress to the people to put in the correct billing address when checking out with a credit card. Interspire does this really good actually. They put a second place for billing address right next to your credit card number on the form, and if you put in the wrong thing, the error tells you why it was wrong (address mismatch) and again, presents that form on the same page for you to fix. OScommerce requires you to manually go back a few steps in the checkout to fix it, annoying for the user, and then they don’t buy from me.

Order Summary Why is it so hard for some carts to provide a printable receipt after checkout? Honestly, Cubecart doesn’t, OScommerce doesn’t, what is the deal? Interspire does not do it either when you select payment of check or money order (mail order form) they provide this sentence: “Mail a check or money order in US funds, along with a printed order summary, to:” But don’t actually provide the order summary.

I guess you have to wait for the email and print it out? What if you don’t get it? Why not just put the order summary on that page? When you pay with a credit card through authorize.net Interspire provides a link for the order summary, but again, why not put the order summary on that page? There is a ton of whitespace on it, fill that space up!

The email summaries they send are nice, put that content on the page seen after checkout. SEO I’ve got no complaints about the SEO for interspire’s cart. They support friendly URLS, give you control over your meta tags (not so necessary but nice) and page titles (very necessary). There are no duplicate content issues with non-canonical URLs like you’ll find in Cubecart with their reviews, or in OScommerce with a new URL for each way to view a product (from a category, from each category, from any category, or from the bestseller list or search results, blech!). There is nice keyword rich breadcrumb navigation, a nice text menu. From an SEO perspective it is an almost perfect platform. The one thing I might want is more product menu control.

For instance, it just lists all top level categories in alphabetical order. Great, but maybe I want to go two levels deep on my menu. Maybe I’d like to list a few of my most popular products indented under the category they belong too.

Giving such products prominent menu links increases their intra-site link popularity, and is something I might want to do. Category Management & Menus Category management is good, other than the things mentioned above.

I can drag categories to reorder them (though with a lot of categories, a numbering system might be easier). Categories can have their own custom template specified for display, which is a really cool feature, they can have images and you have full control over their title and meta tags.

All told, Interspire has a fine category system. On the menus, as I mentioned above, I’d like a little more control. I’d especially like the ability to put in headings (since I can’t do multi-level category listings). For instance say I ran a site for “Birds and Blooms” (a real-life gardening & birding magazine) I might want a heading for “Birds” with all the applicable product categories below it, and one for “Blooms”. This can be achieved with allowing selective multi-level display of categories (showing the top level category, and the next level down where indicated by the admin).

Or with a sectioning system, either way, it’d be a good feature. Customizing Templates Interspire is by far, hands down, the easiest cart I’ve ever had to skin, it is miles ahead of anything else. First of all, it has a wordpress like one-click install of a new template you can download from their free template library.

Chances are you’ll find one with a color scheme you like, then you can easily do the few customizations you need to do, such as specifying your logo image. Secondly, they have an awesome inline-editing tool whereby if you’re logged in as an admin and you’re viewing the site you have the option to edit the page you’re currently viewing. It is an extremely intuitive tool, I could figure it out without looking at any reference documentation. You can do some point-click-drag editing dragging boxes around the page, or open up the files (again direct from this interface) and move the content that way. You can also use this tool to discover which files are responsible for markup you’re selling, it tells you. No more having to play “guess the template” when figuring out which file you need to open to make a small change to your template. Thirdly, their markup is extremely clean, well commented, and intuitively named.

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A CSS class name lets you know what it is for, it isn’t just some programmer’s shorthand like.crc (center right column? I’d rather not guess thank you). So if you do need to do some hard editing (and I didn’t) you’re good to go. You can also of course edit the textual content of various pages from the backend, and in fact the cart even includes a quasi CMS for articles/pages of content or store news. As well as the content of any store emails.

The one problem with this whole system is upgrades can break your templates, even the ones you’ve gotten from Interspire, and to fix it you need to get the new version that they provide, which overwrites all your changes. It would be nice if, perhaps, it only overwrote the templates you had not changed from the default, and for templates you HAD changed it gave you a side by side comparison to help you port over the changes to the new files like vBulletin does it for instance.

So, the few minor changes I’ve made have to be redone at times, and that does get annoying. Adding Products Interspire has some of the best product adding features I’ve seen, with a few caveats. You can easily add all the product information, all the standard stuff, they have a very nice WYSIWYG editor, and it is easily to select one or more categories. They also allow you to select shipping weight AND dimensions (though they do not use those dimensions with UPS). You can also add a fixed shipping cost, on the product (most other carts allow that merely for your whole store) and you can offer free shipping, again, just on that one product.

I appreciate that flexibility. You can also turn on inventory tracking on a product by product basis, there are options for fill-in-the-blank fields for customers to fill in during checkout, and product level discounts, all really accessible. One really cool feature I’ve not seen elsewhere is the option to specify the template file for displaying the product page. This means that you can use different templates for different products really easily, how cool is that? There are also tags, page titles, meta information, all for you to fill out as well, and some accounting software settings I don’t use, but if you want to integrate your cart with accounting software, I’m sure you’d like them. The images leave something to be desired.

I’ve seen carts that allow one image, and I’ve seen carts that allow more than one. Never have I seen a cart that allows 5 images, but not more.

It would seem to me once you code the many::one image to product relationship, your software should be able to support any number of images, or certainly more than 5. This arbitrarily limit should be lifted. You should be able to upload any number of images that are automatically resized into thumbnails for a public gallery page as necessary. Finally, there are product variations.

Product Variations The main problem with Interspire’s shopping cart is their horrible product variation system. By “product variation system” I mean that system found in shopping carts whereby you can create options for a product, such as colors, or sizes, thus allowing someone to buy a shirt in x-large and green. The way Interspire has their system is extremely powerful, more powerful in fact than most other carts I’ve tried, it is also extremely excruciating to work with. The power, and the problem, is that Interspire allows you to set option details for every possible configuration.

Blue in small, blue in medium, blue in large, blue in x-large, green in small, green in medium, green in large, green in x-large. And when I say they “allow” you to do this, I really mean require, because there is no other way to use their system. So, thinking ahead, what you end up having to do is fill out a row of form fields (including possible image upload) for the product of the number of product options multiplied together. If your product has only a few scant options, this is not a big deal, but if your product has more options, boy howdy. Suppose you were selling engagement rings, you have a ring and first you must choose a ring size, 5-15, in whole and half sizes.

20 options right there. Then you have to choose a finish (silver, 10k, 18k, 24k white or yellow golds, platinum, tungsten, titanium, carbon, stainless steel). 12 more possibilities. Then you need to choose diamond size, setting, and cut. Say 6 different options for each. Giftbox, yes or no? So, just in this example, you have 20.12.6.6.6.2 = 103,680 rows of form fields to fill out.

This is not a joke, this is not an error, this is the sad truth. I’ve had browsers crash using their shopping cart because I did not have enough RAM to display the page that was generated. Another user posted a complaint on their forum and for good measure he copied and pasted the entire thing into the forum, it took him over 25 posts to get it all (with the per post character limit). Technical issues aside, how do they expect someone to sit and fill out all that information? The cheapest data entry person in the world is still going to break your budget for having to do that much work for a single product, yes, a single product. You’ll have to do this for each product on your site that has options.

Every other cart I have ever seen does this better. For instance, a 1 carat diamond may add $1000 to the base price, you don’t have to type that in a thousand times, you type it in once and the software knows to apply it to every size, setting, and cut option. Doing these kind of repetitive iterations are why computers were invented in the first place, why does Interspire not take advantage of that ability?

Now, they way they do it is powerful. For instance suppose one particular build is more expensive than others, say, a size 15 ring costs more because it uses more metal, but how much more it costs depends on the metal used. Using their system I could go in and specifically define this, I can’t do that with other carts. But with other carts I can otherwise get the product entered in minutes, not weeks.

I don’t know why they have not fixed this yet. As I said before I was asked by their CEO 9 months ago to review their software, and I noticed this issue right away, and I told them about it, and they said they’d fix it. Maybe there was a misunderstanding, but it hasn’t been fixed, and me waiting for it to be fixed is why this review is so late. They don’t have to scrap their variation system entirely, they merely need to make two front ends for it. One, allowing the computer to take user-inputted rules and fill in all the blanks, and the other to allow the user to go in and manually edit any one of the rows as needed. They can even do it with a little javascript scriptlet.

In fact, if they don’t do this, I may hire someone to do it myself, it’d be an extremely small job, and probably take a day of work at the most. It would be the equivalent of using excel or another spreadsheet, highlighting a column, and doing “fill down” with some value. The second problem with product variations is the frontend. The way they are displayed in the template is completely obtuse and hinders purchase decision making by the consumer. Many shopping carts will display the options, and next to them they will display the price for that option.

Interspire does not, instead they force you to select the option and then the price on the page changes, and if you’re good at mental math maybe you can do a quick calculation in your head to figure out how much that option cost you. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t want to force my users to have to do mental math to spend money with me. I want to make it as easy as possible for them to spend money with me.

Users who use price in their purchase decision (which is most users) will want to know how much options cost them up front without having to play “tour the dropdown list.” Like in a restaurant you can get a steak, smothered with mushrooms is a dollar, cheese is another dollar, add salad bar for $3.99. Users then make a decision based on how much they want to eat and how much they want to spend. Contrast that with just a vague mention on the menu of “Mushrooms and cheese are extra, as is salad bar, when you order your server will tell you how much extra.” Who would like that? I prefer using radio buttons for option selections (like OSCommerce does I believe) with the price increase (or decrease) displayed next to each option. Users can then easily see what options cost them and make their decision appropriately.

I’m not saying Interspire has to do it only my way, but doing it only the way they currently do it is a bad idea, they should at the very least provide an option to store admins for a variety of ways to display product options. Authorize.net Integration I don’t try out every payment gateway when I review a shopping cart, I try out the ones I use, and I use authorize.net. Interspire’s integration leaves something to be desired, specifically they leave many fields blank, and improperly use others. This limits the usefulness of Authorize.net. I’ve had a custom cart developed, and paid less than $1000 for it, and that included an entire site, I paid less for it than what Interspire charges for their best cart, and it included a more fleshed out Authorize.net connection function. To be specific, in the below transaction receipt EVERY FIELD under “Billing Information” should be filled out and EVERY FIELD under “Shipping Information” should be filled out. Additionally, under “Order Information” the “Description” field should not just redundantly list the order number.

It should, instead, list the actual description of your order, ie, the contents of it. “1 diamond ring, pack of cheetos” like most other carts do, and like what Authorize.net says the field is supposed to be used for.

Merchant: StoreName.com (5555555) Date/Time: 11-May-2009 02:42:07 PM ORDER INFORMATION Invoice: 1 Description: Your Order From StoreName (#1) Amount: 49.95 (USD) Payment Method: Visa Type: Authorization and Capture RESULTS Response: This transaction has been approved.