Customer Showcase: RibbedTee

1 | published by Danny Halarewich on Wednesday, November 17, 2010

RibbedTee provides the best undershirts on the planet! Made in the USA, these undershirts won't lose their shape, won't get stretched out collars and won't bunch up like other shirts.

But more importantly, they have a streamlined fit and are comfortable to wear day after day.

In this customer showcase, some of the questions were answered by Mike Schwarz, RibbedTee's Owner, and some by Philip Meissner, the web designer behind this website.

What is your overall impression of LemonStand?

“We are extremely impressed with the out-of-the box functionality of LemonStand and it's modular framework that have made implementing some of our specific product requirements fairly simple and straight forward.

In addition, the LemonStand staff has been incredibly responsive to us as well as the developers who have been helping us implement our eCommerce website. In the 13+ years I have been working with internet-based software companies, LemonStand by far is one of the best companies I have come across in terms of both product capability and support.”

- Mike Schwarz

“I know this will sound like hyperbole, but the LemonStand product and company are a tier above their competiors when is comes to the value of their product, responsiveness of their support and quality of the overall experience.”

- Philip Meissner

How do you feel LemonStand compares to other carts?

“In addition to using CubeCart for the last 2.5 years, we looked at every major shopping cart product currently on the market. We evaluated the feature-set and end-user experience of products such as Magento, ZenCart, Volusion, osCommerce, PrestaShop, 3DCart, MivaMerchant, XCart, Interspire, OpenCart, etc. as well as the popular hosted shopping carts Shopify and BigCommerce.

We also looked at CMS products such as WordPress and Modx and evaluated several ecommerce plug-ins that work within their frameworks. LemonStand was one of the last shopping cart systems we came across in our evaluation process and found that even while it was still in beta, LemonStand had a far better feature-set, end-user experience, and back-end administration system than any product we reviewed.”

- Mike Schwarz

What are some of your favorite features of LemonStand, and why?

“So far, our favorite features include the incredible out-of-the-box user-friendly cart interface and checkout process, the powerful discount engine, and the comprehensive administrative interface. All three items have capability well beyond our current shopping cart software and will allow us to be considerably more operationally efficient and flexible in giving our customers what they expect from an online store.”

- Mike Schwarz

“As a designer I love that you can inject LemonStand into any design. Unlike other solutions that you wrap your design around the shopping cart.”

- Philip Meissner

Did you find LemonStand to be flexible enough to meet your needs?

“Yes. For those enhanced features that were not part of LemonStand's 1.0 core, the modular architecture allowed us to easily extend the system to meet our specific needs.”

- Mike Schwarz

“For the most part yes. However, when it came to creating sizing charts for the t-shirts, I used a partial. In a perfect world I would have been able to add a custom field to the product form to give the client a more pleasing experience. It would also give the designer greater control over the output.”

- Philip Meissner

Did using LemonStand improve your development process?

“I like systems that give you several options for arriving at a solution. I found LemonStand to be very flexible. When my client asked for a feature or a different solution, I could implement it.”

- Philip Meissner

Would you recommend LemonStand to others?

“Absolutely. It's by far, the best eCommerce platform we have come across and priced incredibly fair for the amount of capability it has. We have already recommended it to several companies looking for a shopping cart solution.”

- Mike Schwarz