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[Federico Ulfo]

If she doesn't need any modification go for Magento or other open source
e-commerce, if she needs custom e-commerce is the solution, con: needs time,
pro: total control on any features. After a few pretty bad experience with
os-commerce, I started to install my custom CMS with an e-commerce module to
all of my clients, here an example www.supermercatodellarotonda.com, easy
and clean.


On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Rob D <vision2 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> **
> Thanks Gary for your response.
>
> I totally agree with your comments and, have tried to explain these points
> and many others to her previously but, feel that it fell on deaf ears.
>
> Considering that I don’t think she really has the time to manage an
> ecommerce web site properly, I think she is going to end up being very
> disappointed.
>
> I have passed your response onto her and hopefully she may take notice!
>
> Thanks again for your comments.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
>
>  *From:* Gary Mort <garyamort at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 06, 2011 11:43 PM
> *To:* NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [nycphp-talk] Shopping Cart Solutions
>
> On 8/6/2011 12:24 AM, Rob D wrote:
>
> Greetings All,
>
> I have been asked by my sister in-law to provide an ecommerce solution for
> her small business. As I do not consider myself to be knowledgeable enough
> in this area, I am posting to this list to ask your thoughts and
> recommendations.
>
>
>
> For a "small" business with only a few products, I find PHP ecommerce
> applications to be overly complicated and complex.
>
> SimpleCart works very well from a small business perspective:
> http://simplecartjs.com/
>
> If your sister is editing her items directly, it just means you add a
> little html markup to each item to make it an item which can be purchased.
>
> There are a number of PHP scripts which have been written for different
> platforms to make creating products simpler[for example, RokCart is a
> simplecart implementation for Joomla! which adds a button on content editing
> to set the price and such and create a product.
>
> The downside of simplecart is that because it is all done via javascript -
> there is very little you can do to stop malicious buyers.  If a buyer can
> edit the javascript, they can go ahead and change the prices on the products
> and then submit the sale and it will be processed.  This means your sister
> would need to make sure to check the sales invoices in Paypal before
> shipping products and make sure the price is correct.  Full fledged
> ecommerce solutions often have this type of functionality built in - they
> check invoice information returned by paypal and make sure it is valid - and
> flag invalid transactions.
>
> It's a low end solution, but honestly I've run into a lot of people who
> only get 3 or 4 sales via the internet a month.  Spending lots of time
> and/or money to implement a high end ecommerce application is a waste.
> If/When business takes off and it is taking too much time to process the
> orders is when you upgrade[preferably to something that will support
> something like Amazon Fulfillment so that you can automate the entire
> process at some point].
>
> Not knowing what business your sister is in, another thing I'll mention is
> to think very hard about whether or not to have a 'pick up' option for
> purchases and if so, set a reasonable shipping and handling cost.  As an
> example, a small art Gallery which expects to sell mostly within 200 miles
> can be better served by offering local pick up and placing a 50-100$
> handling charge on shipping paintings.   If you can get the buyer into the
> gallery, then you have the chance to cross-sell other items.  If you ship
> the item, it's a one time 500-1000$ sale AND packaging the whole thing up
> properly is a pain.  So charge for that pain/inconvenience and encourage
> buyers to come to the store.
>
>
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