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 Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:17 am Post subject: Ecommerce solution needed |
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I figured that a few people here must have built or be running online stores so I'm asking for ideas. A family friend wants to start a small venture selling hand-made cushions. They're experimenting with eBay right now but want to have their own website with shopping cart and the ability to take online payments. So far I've looked at:
* OScommerce - probably too complex for what they need but open source and customisable. Code is a bit of a mess now?
* X-Cart - looks good but support reviews are variable. Not fully open source.
* LiteCommerce - looks good. Easy to maintain for small shops. "copyright protection often clashes with scripts on server?" <-- ouch
* Magento - Open source. No production release until next year. The hype says this is going to be an OScommerce beater but I can't quite work out why yet. What other solutions should I be considering? |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: |
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There's also Zen Cart which is open source so worth taking a look:
http://www.zen-cart.com/ 
Andrew
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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I had similar problems when I set up the shop for NABD (plug - www.thenabd.co.uk ). As a charity, we've only got 20 or so items.
I looked at various scripts like Oscommerce and ZenCart, but they seemed rather complicated for the purpose, especially as we wanted Paypal, Worldpay and mailorder (paper) facilities.
To cut this short, I wound up writing my own in Javascript using ideas from various sources. Ok, so it uses frames, but it still works ok. There's no backend as such, all the product pages are plain html with Jscript buttons, but it's easy to expand and maintain. Delivery notes come from either the paypal site (it plugs into the paypal shopping cart), or a small PHP script for the worldpay transactions.
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