Shopping Cart Recommendation?
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I have a new project requiring a shopping cart with credit card processing. I toyed with ecommerce a few years ago, but wondered what experience others have had. Thanks for your input!
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If this is a new project, then take a look at using DotNetNuke based cart. I've done several and found that doing the skinning takes longer than getting the cart running. If you are not familiar with DotNetNuke, it is about 80k+ lines of open source VB.Net code that provides a very flexible content management system and is very powerful. And includes a simple cart for free. You can research the various carts at dotnetnuke.com/ marketplace and at snowcovered.com. I use one called CataLook that for $99 is really hard to beat. Most of them have trial versions so you can see which one meets your needs. Tom
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Make sure it's got wheels that work inside the store but jam when you walk it outside the store Don't get the one in which kids can sit, it only encourages people to have sex.
urbane.tiger wrote:
it only encourages people to have sex
May I ask (even it is a dangerous question) how?
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I have a new project requiring a shopping cart with credit card processing. I toyed with ecommerce a few years ago, but wondered what experience others have had. Thanks for your input!
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
If you want to go the pro route, I suggest getting to know paypal- it takes a few days to get into paypal (ipn, adt, set up etc), but it's worth it. I also suggest building a custom shopping cart to keep page loading times down. If you'd rather go with a prebuilt solution - look up oscommerce, zen cart or similar. For php & paypal tuts google: "killer php shopping cart"
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urbane.tiger wrote:
it only encourages people to have sex
May I ask (even it is a dangerous question) how?
they need to spawn a child (process) to fill the seat ;)
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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If you want to go the pro route, I suggest getting to know paypal- it takes a few days to get into paypal (ipn, adt, set up etc), but it's worth it. I also suggest building a custom shopping cart to keep page loading times down. If you'd rather go with a prebuilt solution - look up oscommerce, zen cart or similar. For php & paypal tuts google: "killer php shopping cart"
:thumbsup: on oscommerce - they have lots of plug-ins for payment gateways. They are also one of the few that make it easy to support stores with 1000's of products. And of course, it is open source and free!
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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they need to spawn a child (process) to fill the seat ;)
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
I was expecting something more on the line of "Yes, I know a friend of mine that gets excited when he sees those seats..." and of course, after that a list of possible different positions should have been posted... Anyway... good answer... :rolleyes:
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I have a new project requiring a shopping cart with credit card processing. I toyed with ecommerce a few years ago, but wondered what experience others have had. Thanks for your input!
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
I don't know your budget, but I'll strongly recommend E-payment components by /n Software[^]. We have their red carpet subscription and I'd say their products are very good and their support is excellent too.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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I have a new project requiring a shopping cart with credit card processing. I toyed with ecommerce a few years ago, but wondered what experience others have had. Thanks for your input!
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
I cannot give you a complete analysis, but I will offer what I know. I have personally worked with three different shopping carts (when I say worked with, I mean had to get in to the code and make modifications). These are
- osCommerce[^]
- PHP - Open Source - osCommerce has been around a long time. The project/product itself is fairly bare-bones, but there is a huge amount of addons[^] for it. However, just about all addons require going in and changing the code. This is usually pretty easy as the addon "package" typically includes instructions on where and how to make code changes, but it does present a problem if you upgrade to a newer version of the base application. This appears to be somewhat mitigated by the fact that development on it appears to have slowed down. The last release was on January 30th, 2008.* Zen Cart[^]
- PHP - Open Source - Zen Cart is to osCommerce as Subversion is to CVS (if that makes any sense). Some years back a group of people took a drop of osCommerce sources and set out to build something "better". It has a built-in mechanism for installing addons, which means less coding on your part, but it also has a smaller (though still 500+) pool of addons[^].* AbleCommerce[^]
- C# - Commercial - AbleCommerce is a fairly robust platform for eCommerce. With a purchase you get all of the source code for the main shopping cart site, but not for their core functionality libraries, primarily CommerceBuilder.dll. It takes some getting acclimated to where everything is in the code and how to properly hook things, but in general it is not too difficult.
All three of these have fairly active community forums where you can search for answers to questions and typically find them without having to post your own inquiry. Beyond these, Wikipedia has an article
- osCommerce[^]
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I have a new project requiring a shopping cart with credit card processing. I toyed with ecommerce a few years ago, but wondered what experience others have had. Thanks for your input!
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
Thanks for all the great comments - I am going to download a couple of these and try them out.
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
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I have a new project requiring a shopping cart with credit card processing. I toyed with ecommerce a few years ago, but wondered what experience others have had. Thanks for your input!
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
I've done dozens of ecommerce projects and suggest the following. If you need a good turn key system that's full featured, easy to skin, and turn key, I'd consider Pinnacle Cart (php/mysql). If you need a good open source system, I'd look into Magentocommerce. Its much newer than oscommerce and has received excellent reviews. I am still working to figure out how to skin it, as it uses a different approach to skinning, but should be more flexible in the long run. (php/mysql). Another good one is Interspire. Again a much newer cart (not open source), but also using a lot of newer web programming techniques. (php/mysql).
Tom Christensen www.actiondigital.com
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Make sure it's got wheels that work inside the store but jam when you walk it outside the store Don't get the one in which kids can sit, it only encourages people to have sex.
:-D
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." - Red Adair
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urbane.tiger wrote:
Don't get the one in which kids can sit, it only encourages people to have sex.
Ah but that has created a whole new market for over protective parents. You can now buy a $30 plastic liner for the child seat on the shopping cart so your precious offspring dont have to actually the touch the cart
better keep quiet about that, otherwise the consumer protectionists will want the nanny state to fund trolley liners
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urbane.tiger wrote:
it only encourages people to have sex
May I ask (even it is a dangerous question) how?
child friendly environments encourage people to want children, and the way most people get them is via sex if you're going have sex in the trolley please use one of the liners to which Josh Grey previously referred