CubeCart Installation, Hosting, Support & Consultancy

CubeCart software

CubeCart is a straightforward but genuinely capable e-commerce system, used by stores selling a handful of products and by stores selling tens or hundreds of thousands of them with multi-million pound turnovers. It has been in continuous development for over twenty years, which is a longer track record than most of the platforms it competes with.

It comes with a wide range of features as standard and can be extended considerably through plugins written by third party developers, including our own extensive range of CubeCart plugins and CubeCart skins.

What CubeCart does well

It is a shop and nothing else. There is no content management system to configure around it and no page builder to learn. If your requirement is to sell products, most of what you need is already there and already switched on.

The admin makes sense. Orders, products, customers and reports are where you would expect them. Staff can be trained on it quickly, which matters more than it sounds if you are not the only person handling orders.

It is not resource hungry. A CubeCart store performs well on sensible shared hosting, where a comparable Magento build would need considerably more server behind it.

You own it outright. A one off licence, your data in your own database, no monthly platform fee and no percentage of your sales.

Upgrades are manageable. Core upgrades are applied from the admin and, provided your skin and plugins are maintained, do not turn into a project.

CubeCart installation

We offer free CubeCart installation and basic setup for every CubeCart site hosted with us. Our years of experience mean we know a range of small configuration changes that should be made on a new store which no other hosting company will offer, or in most cases even know about.

We can also advise on configuring your store to make the most of the built in SEO functionality, and on which additional plugins or code changes are genuinely worth having for your particular requirements. Just as usefully, we will tell you which ones you do not need.

CubeCart hosting

Many hosting companies can host a CubeCart site, and you will find plenty offering cheaper plans or unlimited stores in a single account. The difference is what is underneath.

We do not oversell our servers. The cheaper a plan is, the more likely the server is at or beyond capacity, and a shop that takes six seconds to show a category page is losing money whatever the hosting costs. Our servers are configured for e-commerce workloads specifically, with the PHP versions and extensions CubeCart needs, memory limits that suit a shop, and caching that never serves one customer’s basket to another.

We offer self-managed CubeCart hosting for store owners who want to run their own upgrades, and fully managed CubeCart hosting where we handle upgrades and security patches for you.

CubeCart support

As well as hosting CubeCart stores, we support them. As far as we know we are the only genuine hosting company to include full CubeCart support with our CubeCart hosting plans, on both the self-managed and fully managed options.

The practical value of that is having one company responsible for the whole thing. Anyone who has had a hosting company and a developer each insisting the problem lies with the other will understand why that is worth something.

Consultancy and custom work

We write CubeCart plugins and skins, we build payment gateway integrations for providers that are not supported out of the box, and we handle migrations both from other hosts and from other shopping cart software.

If you are weighing CubeCart against the alternatives, our pages on WooCommerce, OpenCart and Magento are worth reading. We host all of them, so the advice is not shaped by what we would prefer to sell you.