[Sigia-l] Best Small Book Business Shopping Cart Solution

[Taylor, Brett]

I used a cart from phpcart.net, it's not as integrated as osCommerce you
do need to build the store part yourself and then just pass the
variables into the cart, there is a cost of $19.

Since I am a developer and like to build my own stores and not be
restricted to someone elses designs, this solution was best

brett taylor + R O U N D A R C H + bus 312.529.2502 + mob 773.844.5233 +
web www.roundarch.com

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From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Andrew Boyd
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 3:28 PM
To: Chad Fennell
Cc: SIGIA-L
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Best Small Book Business Shopping Cart Solution

Chad Fennell wrote:
> I'm looking into setting up an e-commerce site dedicated to online
> book vending.  There are quite an amazing variety of shopping cart
> solutions from which to pick, and I don't know quite where to begin. 
> So, I thought I'd tap the collective wisdom of this group. Does anyone
> have strong feelings about a shopping cart solution for a small book
> vendor?  More about what I'd like:
>
>   
Hi Chad,

I like challenges so I have used osCommerce a couple of times to set up 
small ecommerce sites (a real estate site and a second hand book store).

I can't comment on integration with Amazon but I can certainly see the 
need - manual entry of stock items into osCommerce is time consuming and

to be avoided wherever possible.

It is free, has a large developer community, and is relatively 
configurable once you get used to the template structure. I am used to 
PHP so that was another plus.

As an alternative, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a turnkey 
drop-shipping solution around for bookstores - you pay someone an annual

fee, do your own promotion, pick up a percentage. Either way, most 
people will think you are nuts ("How can you compete with Amazon?") but 
I think that there are still a lot of opportunities for value-added 
niche book sites.

Hope this helps. :)

Cheers, Andrew
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