Online Shopping CART?

[saveondell]

I want to have a online shopping cart for my selling.Do u know is there any free service? or cheaper service.
most 30D a month..expensive for me. I don't like ebay store..so need other suggestion.

thanks

[Rehan]

If your monthly sales volume is relatively low, you could try http://www.shopify.com/ ...

[Canucklehead]

shopify - 3% commission on sales. If you sell more than $10,000 in a month, the incremental sales are dinged at 2%!

If you're a small store or just starting out, the killer is the merchant fees - be it paypal or standard visa/mc.

Rehan - any good deals on this aspect of e-commerce?

Thx

[Rehan]

If you're a small store or just starting out, the killer is the merchant fees - be it paypal or standard visa/mc.

Rehan - any good deals on this aspect of e-commerce?

From what I've seen, Paypal is the 'least bad' option for small stores. For medium or large stores, the Costco credit card processing service looks interesting, but I don't know how well it would be priced for an online-only solution. http://www.costco.ca/Images/Content/...itcard-eng.pdf

[cdnNick]

You can get a web hosting account and then install a shopping cart such as zencart or cubecart. Zencart is free and cubecart is around $70 (one-time fee).

You can use paypal, 2checkout, PSIgate to accept payments. Paypal and 2checkout are both 3rd party payment processors where you only pay when you make a sale. PSIgate is a merchant processor where you have to pay a monthly fee and a per transaction fee, but unlike the 3rd party processors, the payment is made on your site no need to go to paypal or 2checkouts site for the payment.

[emoci]

what about mals e-cart, it takes a bit more work with HTML, but if your product updates are not changing continuosly it's not bad, ...what I think anyways

[Jokez Guy]

oscommerce is what i use, its relatively simple and very easy to use, and i found it very simple to mod

[nabeel]

I would suggest using Zen-Cart with Paypal to start. Paypal will allow you to take CCs directly without the customer having to sign up for a Paypal account (in most cases).

That's what I use in my online store.

[dealcatcher]

oscommerce is what i use, its relatively simple and very easy to use, and i found it very simple to mod

it's difficult to use? what's the requirement to setup ? i'm totally newbie to it and it doesn't run?

[dealcatcher]

I would suggest using Zen-Cart with Paypal to start. Paypal will allow you to take CCs directly without the customer having to sign up for a Paypal account (in most cases).

That's what I use in my online store.

what's PHP ? i don't know about the requirement of Zen-cart?

[emoci]

what's PHP ? i don't know about the requirement of Zen-cart?

you need a host that supports php code and mysql databases

Set up for both of them are similar:
create a database
upload all the folders in the directory
complete installation
fill out your database host location, db name, db username and password
fill out all other info
then you should be up and running

It's not as simple as shopify (or even mals) as in this case you are hosting your own cart. The good thing about zen cart and OsCommerce is they look professional and it's not just a cart, it's an entire webstore managment

[dealcatcher]

you need a host that supports php code and mysql databases

Set up for both of them are similar:
create a database
upload all the folders in the directory
complete installation
fill out your database host location, db name, db username and password
fill out all other info
then you should be up and running

It's not as simple as shopify (or even mals) as in this case you are hosting your own cart. The good thing about zen cart and OsCommerce is they look professional and it's not just a cart, it's an entire webstore managment

so what is the requirment for OsCommerce? Can I try it out on my xp?

[cdnNick]

Pretty much all the shopping carts have similiar requirements, they will need PHP and a mySQL database.

I would strongly suggest not using oscommerce, if you are not too sure what you are doing then oscommerce might not be from you. Once it is installed you need to secure it otherwise the admin section is wide-open.

Have a look at http://zencart.com/ and http://cubecart.com these are much better then oscommerce.

You could try these out on your home PC, but you would have to setup a web server with php and mysql support.

[Canucklehead]

I was able to MOD osCommerce with some cool features like a SKYPE button that shows whether I'm online, something to always centre the page, french version of website.

There is a place to contribute your mods - this is where I got them. I also made up Quebec flag icon for the french site and a mexican icon for the spanish site.

Some nice Ontarian put up instructions on how to customize the site to accept pst/gst from various regions of the country!

There are instructions on securing osCommerce - I haven't done this yet as I'm still learning/fooling around with the site design and structure.

To avoid eating up the transfer MBs, I did what Rehan had suggested - using SSH on the site. However, I found it a bit slow and ended up installing xampp which includes Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql. all in one download! It even configures the server for you.

This allows me to make changes and see how it looks "live" and also to play with databases and stuff.

If you're keen and have access to RFD and Google, you should have minimal problems doing this.

[dealcatcher]

so what is the requirment for OsCommerce? Can I try it out on my xp?

is this good ? http://www.devside.net/