[BNM] open source or cheap e-commerce sw

[Russell Beech]

Take the Cubecart advice from Mark and avoid Zencart and Oscommerce.  The
latter two are a horrid mess and templating with Cubecart is a joy by
comparison.  Cubecart isn't the most fully featured cart out of the box, but
it sounds like you have simple requirements anyhow. 

Actinic is... not very nice to design with, but it still out performs many
in the back-office functionality department.  One bonus is it's easy to make
keyword rich URL's as you're uploading static html files.  But then again
you can easily mod something like Cubecart to rewrite URL's.  I digress.

By the sounds of things Actinic isn't right for what you want, get Cubecart.

R.

-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Croxton
Sent: 13 March 2007 12:23
To: bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org
Subject: Re: [BNM] open source or cheap e-commerce sw

Cube Cart if you want something cheap, highly customisable, xhtml/css  
valid, and not too tricky to set up.

Tradingeye if you want a CMS as well, more advanced features like  
SAGE integration, and still get clean accessible-code loveliness  
(around £400 for developers if I remember right).

Oh, and Secpay for the payment gateway - they've got a great soap  
api, and are one of the cheapest/most helpful.

http://www.cubecart.com/
http://www.tradingeye.com/
http://www.x-cart.com/
http://www.secpay.com/

Steer clear of Actinic, it's unspeakably horrible.

Mark


> Hi,
>
> I'm going to be doing a favour for a mate and setting up a quick  
> and cheap e-commerce site for him. So can anyone suggest a free or  
> cheap package that will enable me to do this relatively easily? Its  
> just a range of "product x" nothing particularly fancy needed -  
> just enabled to plug into some credit card merchant system. I don't  
> know which merchant he choose so far unfortunately.
>
> I'm sure the BNM crew has had their fair share of highs and lows  
> with this sort of thing so naturally you guys are the best guys to  
> ask :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve Liddell




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