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

[Chad Fennell]

Thanks for sharing your experience, both of these systems would be
viable solutions for my project.

Thanks Again,
Chad

On 3/17/06, Taylor, Brett <btaylor at roundarch.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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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