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We've been searching for months now, and have tried several carts, but always we find (usually after they have our money) that there is something the cart doesn't do that they said it would, or bugs in the program that make the cart unusable.
Does anyone know of a cart that can do the following:
Interface with paypal (duh).
Calculate UPS shipping accurately, and calculate it for products individually (we sell boxes of paper products and therefore each box is a separate package).
Support multiple tiers of quantity pricing discounts.
Calculate sales tax based on buyer's location.
Generate html shopping buttons which can be added to preexisting html pages.
As I have been unsuccessful in my search (and I've been looking for a month or two, going on three now) I thought I'd beg the wisdom of you people.
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Your requirements are not that difficult, and it gives me pause that you have not been able to find a cart to do what you want. How much is 3 months of your time worth? WOW!
I suggest you state your requirements, and then people in here may be able to answer you...
1. Server-side, or client-side? I assume server-side with database. But you must define your requirements before this is known. Do you have inventory, or invoicing requirements? You need IPN (an automatic way to get approval and ship orders)?
2. Do you have a server to install a purchased cart (PHP, for example) on? Do you know how to maintain a cart on your server?
3. If you do not know servers, how much are you willing to pay for hosting of a cart on someone elses server?
Perhaps you do not know the answers to these questions. But 3 months is way too long to spend on this sort of thing. You need to state your requirements a little more clearly than you have. For example, sales tax - are you willing to let the customer "select" where he is, or do you want it done automatically? If auto, then how do you plan to "get" his home address?
And what does "generate buttons" mean? Do you want an automatic way to do this? I suggest that this is not realistic (most of the time), and can be better dealt with by server templates into which things are stuffed before being prresented to the customer.
I'm not trying to insult you, just pointing out that if you are able to accurately define yiour requirements, then the search is rather simple. Perhaps you need a "pro" to chat with you a bit, and convert your "ideas" into technical specs. THEN the matter is rather simple, and does not take much time...
Your specs are not complete. Server-side, or client-side? Can you put a "cart" on YOUR server? Do you know how to work with your server? How much are you willing to pay - one-time charge (mostly) for purchased carts that you put on YOUR server, but monthly charges if it is hosted somewhere else.
I'm trying to help, guy. Hope I have...
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most of those three months have been spent trying to make carts, that assured me they met all of my requirements, work, and finding a week or so into the process that one small (but essential) thing didn't work like we needed it to. I suppose I've been learning the hard way what exactly I need a cart to do.
I don't feel insulted, I honestly don't know much about this ecommerce stuff, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
1)We would prefer a cart that runs on our server, as long as the interface that runs it is fairly intuitive I can figure it out. we (when I say we I'm referring to myself and my boss) would like not to have to pay a monthly fee for the cart, as we are selling rather near to our profit line in order to be competitive, and too many monthly costs (that we have to pay wether we sell anything or not) will eat up our profits.
2)all we need as far as invoicing is concerned is for the cart to either have a place in the administration area where we can retrieve order information, or the cart could send the order info to our e-mail address (both would be nice).
3)We are hosting a website on lunarpages.com, and they have very good tech support, so anything I don't understand about servers they can usually explain to me, in nice small words too.
4)As far as tax, only people that live in our home state will have to pay tax (as far as I am aware) so we need to set the cart up to apply taxes to orders that originate from that location, the cart will probably have to require the customer to enter shipping information to accomplish this.
5)by generating buttons I mean, if it could spit out code for html buttons (like the default cart for paypal does) that we can cut and paste into web pages we already have created, that would be ideal.
6)We're looking for a cart in the 100-300$ price range, one time billing. we may be willing to pay more if it fills all of our needs and is easy for us html/java/what-have-you idiots to manipulate.
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That's a pretty good definition. Suppliers should be contacting you.
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Your cart sounds like it would only take a few days to put together. I would look at using the UPS API for shipping charges. I'm using their API for my auction site and it was easy to setup. This is a better way to determine shipping instead of using a hardcoded lookup table like zippycart. You do need to sign up to use the UPS API, so you might want to register (there is no cost to use the API). I purchased zippycart last week after seeing a post on this forum because of the ability to deterime shipping. After downloading it, there were bugs that stopped me from getting it to work correctly. After two hours of fixing problems, I trashed it and wrote my own cart. I would try to find a cart solution that is server-side based, uses a database, UPS API and doesn't store your cart information in a cookie. I think you will end up with a better cart if you hire a one person developer to put it together for you. If it were written in PHP, MySQL, XML for the API, I think it should take a few days for a developer to complete.
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We have the developer keys for the API's, all we need now is someone with the know-how to code the cart for us, or a developer that already has a cart that meets our needs.
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Check out this website http://www.emicrosoftware.comPlease let me know your feedbacks.
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It doesn't support paypal, at least not that I could tell. Other than that it seems like a good program.
That and it appears to be a storefront builder, and all we really need is a cart, we've already built the HTML store front for our site.
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Yes, it does support paypal payments. It's a complete program. You can check the default sample. http://www.emicrosoftware.com/sample.aspx. All you need to do is upload this to .Net web host and that's it. I hope this helps.
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Dust-Tex, We can fulfill all of your requests except; Support multiple tiers of quantity pricing discounts. How important is this feature? You can read more about the cart here. http://www.auctioninc.com/info/page/shopping_cart It is a $24.95 annual charge. To view a few live examples: http://www.auctioninc.co...rce_references#showcase
If you have any questions, please call 866-323-8833*229. Thanks, Tom sales@auctioninc.comShopping Cart with Integrated shipping Calculations. http://www.auctioninc.com/info/page/shopping_cart
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Fairly important I'm afraid. If we were willing to sacrifice some of the features we mentioned above we would have a cart by now. We simply cannot seem to find a cart that fulfills all of our requirements.
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I wish I had seen this! I just bought zippycart and had the same problems. I've trashed it and went with another rec I saw in these forums (auctioninc.com) which seems far more reliable. I am still testing it out and will report on it. A <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> Originally posted by lbackstrom[br]I purchased zippycart last week after seeing a post on this forum because of the ability to deterime shipping. After downloading it, there were bugs that stopped me from getting it to work correctly. After two hours of fixing problems, I trashed it and wrote my own cart. I would try to find a cart solution that is server-side based, uses a database, UPS API and doesn't store your cart information in a cookie. I think you will end up with a better cart if you hire a one person developer to put it together for you. If it were written in PHP, MySQL, XML for the API, I think it should take a few days for a developer to complete. Larry <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
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Xcart has a very robust cart with not monthly fees, one license you purchase and its yours, it offers free upgrades. It has worked very well for us for the last year, we especially like the fact that we dont have the extra fees to use this cart other then the regular ebay and paypal fees. Childrens Clothing, Smocked Dresses and Christening Gowns at: http://www.carouselwear.com
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I would simply refer you to the powerful open source solution (free) Joomla content management sysetm and its Virtuemart e-commerce component. It is far easier to install, use, modify and make money with than anything I have used thusfar. Begin at the link below. If you need free help setting it up, check the forums or you may contact me. I'll help as time permits. http://www.joomla.org/
http://www.virtuemart.com/
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RE: Zippycart, I liked much about it's set up and realize it isn't the database driven solution, perhaps better for my simple needs. Anyway after reading the comments here I almost steered away from it, but I didn't. I haven't experienced any problem at all getting it to work.
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What is the cart makes to use? Who can give me to Thanks http://www.megaphoneusa.com/
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If you're still looking, here's a shopping-cart that does all those things, and is free: http://ereimer.net/nopercart.htm
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Someone shed some help Please!!!! OMG!!! I have been on a very frustrating tirade trying to find a Shopping cart that simply works by sending everything that a customer selects from my website to the paypal shopping cart including tax and possible shipping functions (UPS, USPS, DHL, FEDX, ect..) Any takers?? I have seen alot of stuff and wasted a TON of time on stuff that doesn't work and I am at my last fricken wits!!! I have tried PPCAL which has 0-Zero-Zilcho support!!! Decent potential, but, support is horrible!!! Buyers BEWARE!!! I have tried OsCommerce which seemed like a easier solution, but the PC Configurator contributions are EXTREEMELY BUGGY!!! One mistake, and it could be hours of disecting code and replying to forums like a bird on a trail of breadcrumbs. I have tried Zen-Cart, (very nice cart) but, it is the same as OsCommerce. Also, I might add that the guru's on the forums (both Oscommerce and Zen-Cart) treat you as if you should know everything!! Nothing is clear (contributions included) and some the responses from the help questions are just as confusing as the addons themselves!! I am not trying to bash these guys, but just being real and venting a bit. I just need something that works and not too elaborately expensive. I just need a simple cart that has simple drop downs listing each component with a possible info button showing the product, and maybe javascripting involved showing the price accumulating as each product is selected. When the system has been configured, the consumer can either checkout immediately and go DIRECTLY to the paypal shopping cart where their information will be taken and it will show the customer their items and price, or stay within the cart to shop for other items. This shouldn't be that difficult, but believe me, I am at my wits end trying to find something that works. I would like to find something that is economical at this point. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!!!
Robert
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