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[Fee, Patrick J (US SSA)]

While we are on the topic of 'carts, I wanted to chime in.
I thought I could share a good experience with all of you.

A couple of years ago I need to put together a cart, but the customer
(a folk signing duo) wanted to do something without spending a lot of
money... and then expand later.

If you find yourself with zero time, or perhaps very little money, or
even hosting somewhere where SSL and a secure connection is not an
option, might I suggest Americart.

I was able to easily set up a catalog area that looked like the rest of
their site very easily, allow for different shipping and group rates and
specials.  And all the actual ordering and reception of the credit card
info happened on the Americart site for a flat fee.  Credit card info
could be done in real time (which they did later), or the info could be
stored securely and their office person could get it and run it through
the credit card machine in the office.

If this would ever help anyone, I'd be happy to get more detailed.  I
just thought someone might have to add a cart to an existing site on
spec, or with a miniscule budget, and this might help as a
platform/application independent interim solution.

Have a great day

Patrick J. Fee
IT Software Analysis Solutions Group Manager
Tel: (301) 231-1418
Cel: (240) 401-6820
Fax: (301) 231-2635
Patrick.Fee at BAESystems.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
On Behalf Of Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline)
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:53 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP/SQL ECommerce Solutions

Thanks everyone for the feedback.

I'm not even sure if I'll get the project, since my bid was prolly a
little 
high and we dont
have much experiance in e-commerce.

However, its good to get my mind thinking about this stuff, incase we do

something
in the future.

thanks again!

- Ben

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cliff Hirsch" <cliff at pinestream.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP/SQL ECommerce Solutions

>I need a "digital soft goods" feature. Lots of carts support software
> downloads, but I need the ability to issue unique "PIN #s" for things
like
> phone cards, gift cards, etc. These aren't randomly generated
(although 
> they
> could be), but are actually uniquely "picked" from inventory.
>
> The litecommerce egoods module implements this feature really well.
> Surprisingly Xcart doesn't, although the company will "develop" it for
you
> for a fee. (they probably have it in stock!). I got quotes both ways,
and 
> it
> was cheaper to take the stock litecommerce, although I'd rather have
100%
> open source code and Smarty templates, not Flexy. I may just have it
> developed and flip to X-cart in the future. Or a full custom cart for
> complete control.
>
> I'm sure some oscommerce module has this, along with other carts. I
looked
> around and saw some half-baked versions, but couldn't find a good
example
> anywhere else. And oscommerce scares me. Didn't find a Zencart
equivalent
> either.
>
> Btw, "reskinning" litecommerce now. Major tedium -- feels like a
complete
> waste of time, although I would guess its the same for most any
> off-the-shelf cart.
>
> On 2/15/07 2:07 PM, "CED" <Consult at CovenantEDesign.com> wrote:
>
>> Cliff,
>>
>> What feature is it that you only foun in lite?
>>
>> -Ed
>> Edward JS Prevost II
>>        -President-
>> www.CovenantEDesign.com
>> Consult at CovenantEDesign.com
>> 518.331.5061
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Cliff Hirsch" <cliff at pinestream.com>
>> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP/SQL ECommerce Solutions
>>
>>
>>> I am also using litecommerce, only because it has one particular
feaure 
>>> I
>>> could not find in any other cart. I'm going through the skinning
process
>> now
>>> -- again, (2nd time, after having it done once outsourcing).
>>>
>>> Skinning does seem to be a royal pain. Not very stimulating...time
>>> consuming...redundant, etc.
>>>
>>> Issues to be aware of:
>>> 1. It is "97%" open-source. The core is encoded using ioncube.
>>> 2. Ioncube conflicts with Zend Debugger
>>> 3. It performs a license check.
>>>
>>> Cliff
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/15/07 11:44 AM, "Jose Villegas" <jv_nyphp at duikerbok.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Ben,
>>>>
>>>> I would also take a look at LiteCommerce, which is based on XCart:
>>>> http://www.litecommerce.com/
>>>>
>>>> I've installed it a couple of times and it was relatively easy to
>>>> customize. The most important feature over OsCommerce/Zencart is
that
>>>> it can keep track of inventory on product options. Skinning it is
>>>> very time consuming, but I think this is normal for most ecommerce
>>>> systems. It uses FLEXY instead of Smarty and you have a choice of
>>>> what components to buy.
>>>>
>>>> Jose
>
>
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