Shopping Cart Software

Now I've got my various new domain names, I need to work out how best to handle making it easy for people to buythings.

My current shop is oscommerce, and it works fine within the limitations of my own confidence fiddling with the coding, I know you 'can' do almost anything with it, but I've made some fairly basic changes which I've been happy with and have now reached pretty much the limit of my confidence in changing coding. The new pages though are really only going to be promoting a relatively small group of products. I could just add paypal 'buy it now' buttons, but they don't generate a proper shopping cart with postage options and that sort of thing, so I think I'm looking for something in between, a simple way of letting someone say they want, for example, one hat, two pairs of socks and a book, and have a straightforwards but easily understood cart appear to allow them to alter their choices, pick postage choices and so on, before it points them either to paypal or directs them to send me a cheque.

Can anyone suggest a way to do this please?

Soapnutter

I've been hunting for something similar so will be watching this thread with interest.

I don't want a cart-in-a-box like OSC though, I want something like Roman cart where the buttons are on my web pages but it creates a decent cart with postage, options, and multiple payment methods.

I think it's going to cost me though. Confused

orangepippin

I think if you can keep going with these packages you get a lot of benefit and functionality for not a lot of money ... but when you have exhausted them then, yes, it starts to cost more.

jema

I don't want to push my own service too much, but a shop like this :

http://forum.myfreeforum.org/viewportal.php?component=shop

Comes free with my forums, it is only geared to people selling 20 or so different items, and postage is per item, and the only proven working payment gateway so far is paypal.

But I ma working on demand to expand what can be done, though the aim is not to be oscommerce, but to be a lot simpler for people who are just selling a few things.

orangepippin

Perhaps you could create an open source version of my shop system. It is entirely .Net but for some time I have been tracking functionality of PHP and MySQL so it is probably becoming possible to port it. I do think these low-end packages are very good value for money though!

sally_in_wales

Has anyone used Zen Cart?

jocorless

I've had a look at Zen Cart - It seemed to have everything I wanted and was a doddle to install - my only problem was that there was no Joomla integration for it at the time so I ended up using Virtuemart for my shopping cart solution

I think Fee uses Zen cart

cab

jema wrote:

If you can build on that to add options for pricing postage and suchlike, you'll be onto a real winner. Looks good.

jema

What I'm saying to people is that if they have a particular not too complex need I will add it in.

It does mean that people can use the system to have a basic web site, a forum and a basic shopping cart for free. Or for £40 a year have it advert free.

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