chuladi - 8:23 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

I use secure net shop and I like it for what it is. It's basically a remotely hosted shopping cart that you integrate with by adding buy now links and buttons to your website. I use software from fourth world called web merge that creates the website from templates I have and a csv database file. For a site with relatively few products that won't change a lot, the remotely-hosted-cart with buy now button works well.

If you're going to change your site a lot, it's a pain to have to update an HTML page (or pages) and THEN go and update the shopping cart's database.

It has two downsides that I have come across thus far:

1- you can chnge product inventory levels, but SNS doesn't have a method of running an inventory report to see what those levels are or what is marked out of stock.

2- the affiliate program tracking is just insanely archaic and I can't see how it would work in the real world. Now you may nothave an affiliate program, but being able to create affiliate-like tracking links for tracking clicks-to-sales from PPC search engines is a really useful thing to do and SNS can't do that.

Otherwise, I think it's a good solution, definitely more flexible than something like Mals, more customizable and with many more options and I have been happy with it.