Unsolicited Testimonial: I love this software.
I am not a programmer or developer. I can do a bit of html but I can’t even program efficiently in JavaScript let alone any of the other high tech stuff the guys in this forum are doing.
We are a small service company. Before BV4 our first website was inefficient, insecure, and as a result, our business was highly labor intensive. We investigated how much it was going to cost just to add a shopping cart to that site. BV4 gave us way more in all these areas for way less $. Yes we had a few issues with BV4 but nothing we couldn’t live with.
We heard a lot of good things about BV5 while it was in development. We bought it as soon as it came out. We have been running a test site ever since.
Previously we used the Rain Forest theme. It gave us a nice look and we didn’t have to modify it very much. Guess what? BV5 doesn’t come with Rain Forest. So we had to switch to one that probably has a more modern look.
We are now ready to bring our BV5 site live (as soon as the next migration tool is released). And I did it all by myself. Well, not all by myself. I had help from many of the people posting in this forum. I mean, so far I didn’t pay anyone to get it to this point.
The Strength of BVCommerce is not just the software itself or the innovative approach to programming Marcus and company are using. It is also many of Marcus’s loyal adherents posting in this forum. They answer a lot of questions and provide lot of fixes, modifications and help on how to over come the problems you may encounter.
Noah has helped me immensely, Cliff with his TekGear Redux theme, Andy, Matt and others with their helpful posts.
Is BV5 perfect? No. We still would like a couple more bells on our site. But just looking at BV5’s file structure, even I can see that Mod’s to the program are going to be easy for a developer, familiar with the software, to make. Right now we feel BV5 (with the few issues all software has, new and old) is better and offers more opportunities then BV4.
Where are you going to buy a car that does everything you want it to do for this price and still gets 60mpg?
Here are our 2 sites. The first one will be gone shortly.
www.laurastamm.net<a href=”http://www.laurastamm.net/default.aspx”>www.laurastamm.net</a>
<a href=”http://69.84.145.53/”>www.laurastamm.net</a>
Bob Noble
You can email me from our web site if you want to contact me.