How to create shopping cart options on website?
onegirlcreative (1095 points) | Thu, 2008-07-10 19:34Hello designers!!!
I'm embarrassed to even ask this, but I want to be able to add a shopping cart/purchasing on my website, but I really don't know how to do this. Obviously, I can add the PayPal button and have the buyer pay via PP, but how on earth do you do the add to cart thing? I mean, it sounds easier than it really is.
What if they want to purchase more than one item and they want to add to cart? Is this too complex for a simple website like mine?
Any advice would be awesome. Sorry if this is so broad, but I really don't have any other way to explain it.
Thanks!
Suzanne
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Suz,
Well you can get a programmer to create one:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/net-shopping-cart-datatables
or use a prepared service:
www.amazon.com
http://www.quickcart.com
Can't vouch for these last two, but search for "shopping cart" on the web to find all the options out there.
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why not use a pre-made shopping cart, i use pdshop for my client's sites, it's asp based shopping cart, www.pagedowntech.com
If u get hosting with Yahoo they have a very easy shopping cart that integrates with your site seamlessly, it 's Miva shopping.
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http://www.shop-script.com/
http://freewebshop.org/
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I had a site to review some products and than turned it into an ecommerce website, I used http://www.fortune3.com as a shopping cart software and worked great.
Been doing a lot of research for this. The awesomest, more bestest EASY option out there is without a doubt: Shopify...
However, cheaper and almost just as good is E-junkie .
Another easy to setup option (similar to the above mentioned) is ASecureCart
If you don't want to go through the hassle of setting up something like the Rockin' Ubercart then I'd say E-junkie is your best bet. It's cheap, easy and good looking. It will also handle all your needs without a problem.
For more options you can always give the sites on this page a visit: Website Payments Pro Shopping Carts U.S. - PayPal
If you keep your ears open, you'll see better.
Just build a Joomla site and get a Virtuemart module.
"Just Build"? If you're running a custom site design "just building" it in any CMS is a time intensive exercise. Not to mention it *might* be a little overkill for Suzanne's needs?
If you keep your ears open, you'll see better.
1) Joomla is quite easy, you don't need to fully understand php to use it. It's no overkill.
2) Second, it's free
3) Third, it probably works heaps better then those expensive carts you linked there. Why? For the simple reason Joomla is open source and millions of people use it.
4) Who's talking about rebuilding the whole site? Could just make a few Joomla pages without anything around it to let those work inside the website as a shopping cart.
Reasonably speaking:
1) I've never attempted running Joomla myself being a Drupaler so I'll give you credit on this one by assuming it's easy to install, setup and theme. ;)
2) Free is good :D However "free" is measured against time spent installing, setup, theming and debugging. If your time is worth $40 and hour and you spend a reasonable (yet unlikely for a noob) 3 hours doing all of the above you've just spent $120. That's a 1 year subscription with E-junkie if you have a shop of 20 products. So "Free" is debatable and would require research on the part of the "shop owner".
3) The carts I linked are not necessarily expensive, in fact, I listed some of the most affordable and time saving carts. Assuming that a cart is better because it's open source is just that, an assumption. Open Source products often suffer from "Beta" issues, which unskilled "shop owners" don't want to struggle with. The "shop owner" would need to research various options to decide which option works best for their needs. Joomla's cart might be overkill for a 20 product site. (Or might not.)
4) Fair enough - this can be done and would be "easy". Although, by the time you've created your templates for the "shopping cart" part of your site you might as well go ahead and port your whole site to the CMS since the point of CMS is to "just make a few pages" and duplicate the effort through the CMS instead of "building" each page. However, the "plug and play" options provided by the carts I mention require no more knowledge than that in the hands of someone who's already created their html pages. Create product, cut code, paste code, done. No learning curve.
No, I'm not busting Joomla or Virtuemart, lest this digress into a Mac vs PC style debate. I personally use Drupal and Ubercart, by no means an easy system to setup, but very flexible and something I would suggest for those who want to create a site worthy of that much work. Looking at Suzanne's needs though, I think it would be overkill and possibly not worth the time (money) spent on it. I could be wrong.
If anything I think the value of a solid brief can not be over estimated in a case like this. How much money/time are you willing to spend? How much customisation do you need? Which features do you need? The list goes on and without it you won't be able to find your perfect match.
If you keep your ears open, you'll see better.
Well clearly you don't really know what Joomla is so stop comparing.
The only problem with your original post was the word 'Just'.
Many of the systems suggested so far (including Joomla) are great - but you can only 'just' do something if you are familiar with it, something the original poster isn't, or they wouldn't be asking the question.
Exactly. That's all I was trying to say... a little wordy I guess.
If you keep your ears open, you'll see better.
Well I certainly didn't mean to label it down as easy but the "just" was more a link to all your payed shopping carts. That would be even more work and too much to bother really. A regular Joomla user would have finished installing Virtuemart before you even did enought research which shopping cart to choose.
Joomla is easy to understand. I did not have any php skills yet I learned myself the basics of Joomla in one weekend. If you're open for it, you can do it.
Yeah of course the first time it'll probably take you a lot of time, but you do earn a valuable experiance as there is a high demand for CMS webdesigners these days. You can pay for a shopping cart now, but what are you going to do next time you need a shopping cart? Pay again?
Hi.
If you want to go for shopping its very easy you can search in google or yahoo its the best way to find out our requirment.
Thanks for sharing your post.
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