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DavidP
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Help with Shopping Cart

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Greetings All,

I am trying to understand the entire process of shopping carts. I understand that you have to have a shopping cart (which is the frontend) and that you need a merchant account but that's about all I know.

So the bank gives you code that ties into the credit card authorization (which eventually deposits money into your merchant account)? They probably get so much money per transaction or something like that right?

Does anyone know of some good PHP shopping carts? I do not have the experience yet to build one from scratch (hopefully soon) and at the same time I do not want to pay a fortune for one.

Thanks to anyone that can help me out with some info about this....
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Takuma
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Post by Takuma »

Hotscripts has few shopping carts.
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Php Resource index have complete scripts of shopping carts:

http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_S ... ing_Carts/
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gijs
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Post by gijs »

Hi,

Open source: oscommerce
Has a extensive user-support forum.
Check it out at: http://www.oscommerce.com

Paying:
I've bought x-cart a couple of months ago to familiarise myself with e-commerce solutions.
Not expensive: $195 us + life time free upgrade.
Is russian and has a fairly good support.
Smarty-template based.
Draw back: no automatic upgrade system availble YET, will be implemented in the next version.
Fast developement of new features.
check it out at: http://www.x-cart.com

Hope this helps,

Gijs
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Post by DavidP »

Thanks for the info and links. This will help a great deal.
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