Quote from: Ron on November 01, 2013, 09:53

It has certain restrictions when integrating with a PayPal check out. Like line items not showing on the checkout, etc, which could cause a higher drop rate.

Magento is from PayPal and might be more compatible. Its also customisable.

What about ktools? Is it any good comparing to those ecommerce solutions above? Will it integrate with paypal? Is worth the $$$ than sticking with a free solution?

Ktools is for sure not a stable product, the documentation close to zero (even though the claim otherwise) and the customer service as much as non existent. Would not recommend it to my worst enemy!

So, from the frustration of selling from your own site, i have quite a lot of visits with very low sale (low conversion rate). Apparently people just want free stuffs. So i am thinking, i am gonna give them free small res of my images (say 300px) with a link to my site for those who want to buy higher resolution versions, and make money from advertising instead, and also adding a "donate" button for those who feel like paying a small amount for what they have for free.
Do you guys know any platform i can build something like that easily?

If your images won't sell they are not interesting enough for people to buy full stop!

Giving them away and think you can rely on advertising only must make your site having an insane amount of unique visitors a day/month/year and if so and you still are not selling anything it's again most likely because the images are not interesting or good enough for your targeted market area!

I've been trying Ktools for a couple of month trying to set up what was thought to be an easy to use upgrade from the site I'm serving my clients with today and I would not recommend it to my worst enemy!

Basically I'm kind of like 85% not satisfied with the solution!

It's insanely difficult to figure out how to configure. Most of the configurations don't work and when you search for the answers in the documents it's in 99% an answer involving a code snippet that needs to be tweaked and put in place in to the many many files.

Altering the templates is a nightmare and lots of CSS code seems to bump in to each other which ends up in conflicts and then just after you actually bought the script and finally gets in to the user forum which is said to closed for outsiders due to spam prevention which I personally as a former forum host believe is BS you realize that any fixing and trixing you do manage to accomplish in the templates will be thrown out of the window during next upgrade anyway which makes it a complete waste of time and for me personally a reason in not buying the product in the first place.

The lack of support is another issue and the tone from the developers towards paying customers suggesting alterations in the support forums that are not in liking with the developers is not working in their advantage..

The forum for the version 4 is overloaded with unanswered questions.

Like I said initially I would not recommend it to anybody, and will be leaving and suck up the money I basically given away to the developers for nothing!

For a little High Jackin of something that came up here in the thread I can highly recommend Zenfolio for an easy to set up, use and to go solution for self fullfilled orders. Sometimes a bit slow but very easy to work with and a perfect solution for anybody ok with using PayPal and Zenfolio won't strip you on any % on the self fullfilled option!