[Hidden-tech] Shopping cart recommendations?

[Trace Meek]

Hi Anne,

The only commercial cart I've tried that addresses ALL of your  
client's wishes (including the Quickbooks export) is digiSHOP,  
weighing in at $349.00 per license (http://digishop.sumeffect.com/).  
Unfortunately this package also generates a lot of junk code  
(including unnecessarily encrypting images in the non-secure part of  
the shopping session).

If you and/or your client can live with the invalid code (as  
apparently a lot of people can), the architecture is pretty neat. You  
supply the HTML template for the "bread" part of the sandwich, and  
the shopping cart software supplies the "filling." So you end up  
getting fairly good control over the look and feel.

If your client is open to compromising the Quickbooks compatibility  
in lieu of a much more elegant (and affordable) out-of-the-box  
package, I'd suggest CubeCart (http://www.cubecart.com/site/home/),  
which generates valid xhtml/css (a rarity in the ecommerce world).  
And it's free to download, try, and use; $69.95 to remove their  
copyright notices. Their website has a pretty good knowledge base,  
walking you through, for example, how to "skin" the cart to look  
different.

Good luck. Me, I'm sticking with PayPal for a while...

Trace Meek
http://www.tracemeek.com/


On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Anne Campbell wrote:

>
> Hi Hidden-Tech folks,
>
> A long-time client of mine is ready to make the move from the  
> PayPal shopping
> cart to a new shopping cart service. She has just secured a  
> merchant account,
> and she's looking for these features:
>
> - compatible with Quickbooks Pro
>
> - easy to ship using USPS - she likes the PayPal feature of  
> shipping straight
> from the PayPal account without retyping the customer's address
>
> - can process credit cards using her merchant account, and also  
> accept PayPal
> transfers
>
> - reasonably priced - hers is just a home business
>
> This is also my first time integrating a non-PayPal shopping cart,  
> so it would
> be great if the cart had an easy learning curve - no hand-coding  
> PERL scripts
> or such.
>
> Any recommendations are greatly appreciated! It doesn't have to be  
> a local
> company - just a good one.
>
> Thanks -
> Anne
>
>
> Anne Campbell, annebcampbell at yahoo.com
> http://www.annecampbelldesign.com/
> http://www.annecampbelldoula.com/
>
>
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