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My husband volunteered me to do a website for his employer as a way for him to earn extra $$. (like I don't already have a full-time job....Am I the only one who sees some irony in this???? )
Anyway.....
Said employer thought that sounded great. Said employer wants shopping carts. Said husband said, sure, no problem.
I, on the other hand, have never done a shopping cart. Yes, I have wanted to learn how to do one because I would put it on our own website, but now I NEED to learn how to do one in the next month so I can keep hubby's employer happy. BTW, said husband did agree to learn how to do it, too, so HE can maintain said website once it is done, not yours truly. That's the ONLY reason I'd agree to this nonsense (did I say nonsense? )
So, if there is a place, or places I can go to learn how to do them, or some not-too-complicated coding someone would be willing to share with me, I'd love the help.
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Two easy and free shopping carts:
1.) PayPal http://www.paypal.com
2.) E-mals http://www.mals-e.com/index.htm
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I use Mals on one site. Once you get it setup it's a breeze. Can't beat the price.
Mike
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I clicked on e-mals link and it went to the home page.
After that, none of the other links on the page worked. Said they have been moved but it never forwarded me.
Not that I am in the market for a shopping cart...I just like to read what's going on.
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http://www.mals-e.com/intro.php
This is the page.
Not certain why the new (moved) pages aren't forwarding.
I've emailed Mal about it.
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Try osCommerce (www.oscommerce.com) or zen-cart (www.zencart.com).
They're both open source products based on php and MySQL, and have good support forums and a large community of users.
Should be easy to set up and customize for you own needs.
I guess you already have some knowledge in PHP e MySQL database programming, but in case you don't, there are many websites and tutorials about server-side scripting... starting from the PHP documentation pages at www.php.net
And you know... Google is your friend
Good luck!
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we use mals, its great.
they also have a forums section, when you have a question:
http://www.mals-e.com/forum/index.php
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I use x-cart it is not free but it can be used as invintory control as well.
right now I use it to keep track of what is on my website and in two diffrent retail locations
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I don't think using a shopping cart affiliated with another company (i.e., PayPal) will work. It needs to be independent. If I were building it for me that would be one thing. This is for the company my husband works for.
I guess I'll start looking at php programming. The open source stuff *might* work. Thanks for the links!
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Greetings mkmorgan:
Check out coolcart.net.
If you can code a basic html page you can use them. You process cards based on whatever service you wish to use or you can get the card number in an encyrpted format, which you manually unencrypt on your desktop and run using your hard line credit card machine.
The are great and inexpensive.
There is a thirty day free trial too.
Dee