Honestly, Here is the real deal. Write your own. You will know it inside and out. You can push it a bit, tweak it per client on the fly.
Flat out the time you will spend in researching shopping carts, finding compatible hosting, learning it, understanding how to get around it's limits - ALWAYS roadblocks on the cheaper ones... You will have been able to program your own that exceeds the cheaper ones. You simply copy all the files over each time and viola. No licensing, server limitations, upgrade limitations, product limitations - Only those you set for your self and your customers. Additionally - it is my experience that a client who wants a simple cart - virtually always upgrades or improves or needs a feature.. suddenly you become stuck on a purchased system , or figuring out how to make a new upgrade work in the new purchased system takes entirely too long. Lastly - if you offer a good service and a good site and the client succeeds a bit - they most often as for an upgrade. You will surely be able to scale the solution you built yourself.. but may have to on the purchase system port all the data, graphics and everything over... So it could actually cost you. Make the investment on the first one.. and all the others are nice profit. I am still modifying my first cart - and have been able to charge $2k to $16k based on the same "guts" - with different modifications and features and such. good luck jay miller James Smith wrote: Sure have, but we (the company I work for) is looking for a simple and more importantly cheep shopping cart we can provide to our cheep skate customers so I can spend my time coding expensive bespoke systems for the larger ones. -- James Smith - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.xsite.ltd.uk <http://www.xsite.ltd.uk> - Xsite Limited ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Dudley" <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:31 PM Subject: RE: Shopping Carts Not tried writing your own? -----Original Message----- From: James Smith [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Sent: 12 June 2002 12:20 To: CF-Talk Subject: Shopping Carts What shopping carts do people use at the moment? Please don't all say Able Commerce as it is WAY to expensive for what my client wants. -- James Smith - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.xsite.ltd.uk <http://www.xsite.ltd.uk> - Xsite Limited ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
