Shopping Cart

jonsimons · 11-05-2003, 12:40 PM

Hi,

I am looking for a good, free shopping cart script.

If you go onto www.dell.com then you can customize each computer and add the features you want. When you select an upgrade feature - eg more ram - the cost of the computer goes up automatically...

Does anyone know of a script that will do this?

Thanks

Jazzee · 11-05-2003, 12:48 PM

www.oscommerce.com

jonsimons · 11-05-2003, 12:49 PM

bin there, don't think it really has wat i need - sounds really complicated? have u ever used it?

Jazzee · 11-05-2003, 01:07 PM

Yes. And it will do what you want, but it is a bitch to set up the way you want it.

jonsimons · 11-05-2003, 01:09 PM

yeh...... ummmm is it easy to edit the appearence? as im not really keen on the orginal layout?

Jazzee · 11-05-2003, 01:10 PM

No, it is a huge pain!

Pretend · 11-06-2003, 07:28 PM

I figured I'd just post here instead of starting a whole new thread...

Does anyone know of a shopping cart that lets you use PayPal and also let's them download a file after they purchase it?

P.S. If anyone could tell me how to do the coding myself or something though, so I could just have it as a link, I don't care, I just need something that will allow me to make someone pay before they can download a file.

Thanks in advance.

Corey Bryant · 11-07-2003, 05:17 AM

Check out www.payloadz.com - they might be able to help out.

UKZJ007 · 11-08-2003, 04:18 PM

i might add one soon

edbarton · 11-09-2003, 12:48 AM

How would a shopping cart help you out with your site, what would you sell? (to pc-clever)

jonsimons · 11-09-2003, 05:53 AM

ahhh, still can't find a good shopping cart!!!!Ive been looking everywhere!!
Anymore ideas?

Pretend · 11-09-2003, 09:52 AM

I found one that sounded pretty good, but my server won't support it.

I'll give a link later.

SVB · 11-09-2003, 11:31 AM

Cant you just use the shopping carts available in the C-Panel?

hatchet · 11-09-2003, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonsimons

ahhh, still can't find a good shopping cart!!!!Ive been looking everywhere!!
Anymore ideas?

I think you can implement what you want to do in almost any shopping cart type script. In my thinking - you would have each of these options setup as a non-visible item. By that I mean it's only associated with the item you want it to be associated with. Some of them could be standard ones like 512MB of ram or the P4 2.0MGhz processor. Then you make them options on each item or computer in this case. When you want to update you have the items add up just like in the standard cart - you then can pull in the total amount from that. When you get to the final cart it will only pass the total amount of the modified cart as a single price.
There would be some customization but I don't think it would be too difficult.
You can find many many free scripts - the cost will come from the customization (if you are not able to do that yourself).

Pretend · 11-09-2003, 07:48 PM

I may just wait until I learn PHP and try to do one on my own.

**South** · 11-10-2003, 07:29 PM

I know you requested free, but I've found that free never equals easy. You'll save time and heartache to just bite the bullet and pay for a program.

The only decent one I've set up is Click Cart Pro. It's written in perl and takes about 20 minutes to set up. You can add options that up the price as selected and choose from multiple gateways including PayPal and Authorize.

You have full customization through templates. It costs about $100 per licence. Not free but what's your time worth?

AcRoNym · 11-13-2003, 12:39 PM

yeah all the best arent free, oscommerce looks a bitch to alter the look etc i like www.alienware.com cart system anyone have an idea what it is..

CrAg · 11-13-2003, 06:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jazzee

Yes. And it will do what you want, but it is a bitch to set up the way you want it.

Hell ya. I agree with Jazzee. I've tryed to set on for my self (long time ago). Well, i started and got pretty tired of installing it. But I think it work just fine. One of my friends is running one right now (he just installed it). So i'll just ask him to install it for me.
Here you can check out a working version of OSCOMMERCE scripts:

http://www.webmoney.mk.ua/shop/default.php (sorry it's in russian, but there is a switch to ENGLISH version on the right in menu (little flag)).

Gede · 11-13-2003, 06:18 PM

I have written a shopping cart in php with session id's and no java script.

http://bali-handicraft.indexnl.com/

fun to do.

If someone need a little help to write his own i could help.

**LazyJim** · 11-14-2003, 04:10 AM

gede what about the payment bit at the checkout, did you get that going?
How does that work, do the merchant account people give you some code to use?