I have a potential customer who is trying to set up an online store without
too much up-front investment. He already has a website and hosting, but
would like to add an online store to it. He uses NOCHEX (www.nochex.com),
eliminating the need to pay for a secure server and certificate and has FTP
access to webspace on his domain which is script-enabled. However, he
doesn't have MySQL or other database facilities.

Does anyone know of a free shopping cart script that could run on such a
site?

Thanks for any help you can give!


Adam

"Adam" <Adam@actualite.blue-fire.biz> wrote in message
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First question:
Does he actually need a shopping cart?

The reason I ask is that we have had a number of customers who had rather
complex carts to sell a range of 10 or so products.
You can do this sort of thing in a simple order form with quantity
selections.

Its worth looking at the simplest possible solutions and then get more
complex if its necessary.


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Well he wants to accept online payments. Coding to do calculations based on
price and quantity, sending the details to him and passing the relevant bits
to NOCHEX is a bit beyond me at the moment ... unless you have some
no-brainer solutions to offer? I've modified existing scripts to do
formatting before, but that's the limit of my expertise ...


Adam

"Gordon Hudson" <gordon@usenet.hostroute.co.uk> wrote in message
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"Adam" <Adam@actualite.blue-fire.biz> wrote in
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Mal's Ecommerce ? http://www.mals-e.com/


Victoria

I noticed that Message-ID: <cauuko$i5j$1@sparta.btinternet.com> from
Adam contained the following:

Bite the bullet and do a few tutorials - it's not as hard as you think.



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Hi

Take a look at:

http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Program...hopping_Carts/

Or

http://php.resourceindex.com/Complet...hopping_Carts/


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"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@ckdog.co.uk> wrote in message
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I learned enough perl in 2 days to write parts of our ordering system.
OK, I had done other programming languages before, but its really not that
difficult.

However a simple form with a list of products and quantities to select
posted to ascript to total them up
would really not be difficult to do.

Gordon

"Adam" wrote:
I would be very wary of using "nochex" as the sole payment method for sales
through the website. Many people, myself included, do not like having to
sign up for "yet another account" in order to do something. Even if it
doesn't cost me anything money wise, it's another login name (or number) and
password to forget, more "sales" emails to delete on a regular basis.

You will also alienate a large number of people who find themselves in the
following situation: "Holder of a major credit card, and also a cash-machine
card which is also Visa Electron, Solo, etc." Nochex only accepts "debit"
cards and not credit cards, and not the debit cards such as Electron and
Solo.

The two types of people described above will take their custom elsewhere.

If your friend has only a small range of products and can only accept the
likes of "nochex" and its big brother Paypal, why doesn't he just sell the
stuff on eBay? They now offer listings at a fixed price known as "buy it
now" as well as the usual auction-style listings. Try
alt.marketing.online.ebay for more help.

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