On 14 September 2011 10:37, James Laver <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 Sep 2011, at 10:11, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: > > > Is there a (decent, maintained) Perl-based e-commerce platform > > out there? > > No. > > > I can find plenty of, for example, shops running Magento and I can > > see (as a user) what all comes with that. > > Even themeing magento is a pain in the arse, let alone extending it. I ask > for danger money to work with it and even still I get fed up of recruiters > calling offering nearly-danger-money. It's horrible and hateful and I never > want to work with it again. > > > Can someone point me to a site or resource that really compares > > Perl e-commerce packages to these popular PHP ones? Something > > that describes all that they come with and what merchants can and > > cannot do with them, without having to actually install all of these > > and try setting them up just to see? Like, a review site. > > Don't trust any of them. And then suffer the PHP and buy cubecart or > similar (the open source ones all have their various major failing, mostly > around security, which is what i expect most of these 'scripts' will suffer > from). > > I'll echo what James says here. For a free software cart frontend use a PHP cart like ZenCart and OSCommerce, the Perl solutions aren't fully featured enough IME. Or pay for a commercial one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_shopping_cart_software Another whole fun ballgame is choosing the payment processor for the checkout backend. The UK government has a comparison website for pricing/features but these two used to be okay http://www.2checkout.com/ http://www.authorize.net/ Make sure the cart you want to use has a gateway plugin for the payment processor you want to use. I wouldn't use Google Checkout. Paypal is expensive but convenient for some customers and you made need it as an additional payment option to avoid losing sales. Another approach to use a combined commercial solution like http://www.actinic.co.uk/ . Regards, Peter
