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Shopping Carts

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:33 am
by Leb_CRX
I am looking for a off the shelf shopping cart solution...ideally free, but if it's a few hundred dollars, no biggie

anyone have any experience with one they'd recommend?

and I've never set one up, how long do these things take to setup roughly? I assume if you can recommend one, you've set it up and can guestimate the time it's taken you

one of my clients is asking me for a quote and I've never dealt with e-commerce in anyway...I am just confused at a couple of things

is this correct for the process:
-user adds items to SC
-user checks out SC
-user enters info, CC, etc, gets stored in DB *is to be to be encrypted in any special way or just base64 encoded?*
-owner gets email notifying him/her of new transaction...no private info in emial
-owner logs into 'admin' and has access to user's information/CC #

am I missing anything? is there anything I am overcomplicated?

any feedback appreciated, I'll be the first to admit that I know nothing about this

Re: Shopping Carts

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:20 am
by yacahuma
here is a list of shopping carts from paypal

<option value="40">1ShoppingCart</option>
<option value="61">Actinic (UK)</option>
<option value="77">Americart</option>
<option value="52">AspDotNetStorefront</option>
<option value="75">CPS</option>
<option value="58">CityMax</option>
<option value="68">Demandware</option>
<option value="45">Ecommerce Templates</option>
<option value="69">EarlyImpact</option>

<option value="62">EKM Power Shop (UK)</option>
<option value="44">eMartCart</option>
<option value="42">LaGarde</option>
<option value="63">Lynx Internet (UK)</option>
<option value="41">Mals E-Commerce (US)</option>
<option value="64">Mal's E-Commerce (UK)</option>
<option value="55">Miva</option>
<option value="59">Monster Commerce</option>
<option value="70">mycart</option>

<option value="43">OS Commerce (US)</option>
<option value="39">ProStores</option>
<option value="71">OS Commerce (UK)</option>
<option value="79">Pinnacle Cart</option>
<option value="78">Quick Cart</option>
<option value="65">Romancart (UK)</option>
<option value="47">Shopping Carts Plus</option>
<option value="48">ShopSite</option>
<option value="72">Yahoo!</option>

<option value="46">X-Cart</option>
<option value="74">Zen Cart</option>

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I have no idea which ones are good. In my case, I tried 2 (dont remember which ones) , and search for security problems, Unfortunately, I found some. Plus I needed paypal subscription support, and none had it. So I created my own. True, it only works with paypal for now.

If you are only going to manage products, no subscription, it is a good idea to buy it