If she doesn't need any modification go for Magento or other open source e-commerce, if she needs custom e-commerce is the solution, con: needs time, pro: total control on any features. After a few pretty bad experience with os-commerce, I started to install my custom CMS with an e-commerce module to all of my clients, here an example www.supermercatodellarotonda.com, easy and clean.
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Rob D <visi...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > ** > Thanks Gary for your response. > > I totally agree with your comments and, have tried to explain these points > and many others to her previously but, feel that it fell on deaf ears. > > Considering that I don’t think she really has the time to manage an > ecommerce web site properly, I think she is going to end up being very > disappointed. > > I have passed your response onto her and hopefully she may take notice! > > Thanks again for your comments. > > Regards > > Rob > > *From:* Gary Mort <garyam...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, August 06, 2011 11:43 PM > *To:* NYPHP Talk <talk@lists.nyphp.org> > *Subject:* Re: [nyphp-talk] Shopping Cart Solutions > > On 8/6/2011 12:24 AM, Rob D wrote: > > Greetings All, > > I have been asked by my sister in-law to provide an ecommerce solution for > her small business. As I do not consider myself to be knowledgeable enough > in this area, I am posting to this list to ask your thoughts and > recommendations. > > > > For a "small" business with only a few products, I find PHP ecommerce > applications to be overly complicated and complex. > > SimpleCart works very well from a small business perspective: > http://simplecartjs.com/ > > If your sister is editing her items directly, it just means you add a > little html markup to each item to make it an item which can be purchased. > > There are a number of PHP scripts which have been written for different > platforms to make creating products simpler[for example, RokCart is a > simplecart implementation for Joomla! which adds a button on content editing > to set the price and such and create a product. > > The downside of simplecart is that because it is all done via javascript - > there is very little you can do to stop malicious buyers. If a buyer can > edit the javascript, they can go ahead and change the prices on the products > and then submit the sale and it will be processed. This means your sister > would need to make sure to check the sales invoices in Paypal before > shipping products and make sure the price is correct. Full fledged > ecommerce solutions often have this type of functionality built in - they > check invoice information returned by paypal and make sure it is valid - and > flag invalid transactions. > > It's a low end solution, but honestly I've run into a lot of people who > only get 3 or 4 sales via the internet a month. Spending lots of time > and/or money to implement a high end ecommerce application is a waste. > If/When business takes off and it is taking too much time to process the > orders is when you upgrade[preferably to something that will support > something like Amazon Fulfillment so that you can automate the entire > process at some point]. > > Not knowing what business your sister is in, another thing I'll mention is > to think very hard about whether or not to have a 'pick up' option for > purchases and if so, set a reasonable shipping and handling cost. As an > example, a small art Gallery which expects to sell mostly within 200 miles > can be better served by offering local pick up and placing a 50-100$ > handling charge on shipping paintings. If you can get the buyer into the > gallery, then you have the chance to cross-sell other items. If you ship > the item, it's a one time 500-1000$ sale AND packaging the whole thing up > properly is a pain. So charge for that pain/inconvenience and encourage > buyers to come to the store. > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation >
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