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Why has no one come up with a good solution for this yet? Is it because there's too much money to be had from selling licenses? The solutions available are all pretty atrocious for a normal user. Yes, they have lots of functionality, but their interfaces are a confusing mess. Here are some I've looked at today:

1. osCommerce: OK, very full-featured, but absolutely horrendous to manage and customise.
2. ZenCart: navigating the admin. interface is like putting your face in spaghetti.
3. VirtueMart: this one is probably the best of a bad lot, though the user login process is dreadful and could easily put off customers. For example, if you require users to confirm their registration before you let them buy something, they get a screen like this:

This is not intuitive: the user is actually registered, but needs to confirm their account before they can log in; the pop up makes it look like their account has been denied. Believe me, I've tried to stop it doing this, but short of hacking the PHP code, I can't seem to change it.

Can someone please suggest something half decent that can be picked up in a few minutes? I've written previously about trying to write something to address this gap in the market, and despite being really busy, I'm getting so frustrated at the lack of a good solution that I'm almost tempted to get down and do it myself. How hard can it be? I don't necessarily mean something that will work anywhere in the world and be ultra-configurable; just a simple product listing with PayPal integration, a few categories, one currency, order processing, that kind of thing. Any ideas?