BestCloudHostingASP.NET | Best and affordable Kartris hosting. Kartris is an open-source, ASP.NET 4.5 e-commerce system written in VB (Web Forms) and with an MS SQL database back end. It is optimized to handle sites with 1,000,000+ SKUs out-of-the-box, though it’s simple and flexible enough for sites which just have a handful of products.

What is Kartris?

Kartris is a free, open-source e-commerce platform with a responsive interface for mobile and tablet support. It is based on ASP.NET 4.0 (web forms). It supports unlimited languages and currencies and handles over a million SKUs and hundreds of orders per day out of the box. Full-text search with keyword relevance sorting is built-in, ensuring visitors can find products almost instantly even in huge catalogues.

There are a variety of different product types (single version, multiple version, options and combinations). There is also support for completely customized product configurations – you can build your own product configuration control that can accept dimensions, calculate pricing (or look it up from a spreadsheet table) and add the product to the basket. A wide range of payment plugins are included such as Paypal, AuthorizeNet SIM & AIM and Sagepay. Bitcoin is also supported natively – Kartris can connect with a Bitcoin client via a JSON API, so you don’t need any third party service providers to accept Bitcoin and have orders flagged as paid.

There are free apps (Android widget and Windows app) to notify you of orders and new support tickets while on the move. A free data tool provides ways to import data from spreadsheets and older versions, import/export language packs and reset admin passwords. It can also be used via command line, so scripted daily data updates (including product image updates) can be fully automated as scheduled tasks.

Custom product controls

Kartris has support for plug-in product configuration controls which developers can create in VB and easily incorporate into the site for certain products. For example, you could create a tool that can let a customer choose the height, width and thickness of material for a sign, choose the material and wording, and calculate a price in real time based on a lookup in a spreadsheet or an algorithm, and then add this customized item to the basket to be checked out and purchased like any other product (and together with other ‘normal’ products too). The system is completely flexible – all you need to do is to be able to configure a name, description (dimensions, options and so on), price and quantity to send to the basket and Kartris will take care of the rest.

Back End

There is a fully-featured back end to control all aspects of the store. It includes a unified search, treeview navigation and is optimized to handle hundreds of orders per day and a million-plus products.