simple cart: is this possible

[MWpro]

I am using the PayPal shopping cart buttons now, but need to move to something a little more professional.

I need a simple cart, easy to customize (match my site's layout), that will hold 10-20 products.

Now, I don't need this cart to take the customer's shipping/bill information since I don't want to deal with SSL or anything. I need the Cart to simply pass the product information onto PayPal (how much the total transaction is, what products they bought, what shipping method they would like).

Suggestions?

[barbe]

www.mals-e.com .... super simple ...

A step up from PayPal in that you still have the buttons, but they go to mals-e's servers ... once the customer is done loading up their cart and are ready to pay, they are then taken to PayPal.

[MWpro]

Thanks for the recommendation, that looks like a good service.

But I really want to keep the cart activity on my site until the last moment of checkout, which will then pass the products, info, and shipping to paypal.

[jbinbpt]

OsCommerce is easy to use, can be massaged anyway you want and has Paypal module.

[barbe]

With Oscommerce, he would need SSL since he would be housing the customer's personal info (name, phone number, etc).

The cart activity is technically on your site ... and the last moment of checkout is at PayPal, like you want.

[edited by: lorax at 1:10 am (utc) on June 25, 2008]

[MWpro]

I resorted to finding a simple PHP tutorial on creating a shopping cart and making my own. I modified this a little bit to meet my specific site needs and to calculate shipping automatically.

The "check out button" is really a paypal buy now button in disguise, and the item names, total amount, and shipping are inserted on the fly. I'm going to see how it goes, and if this increases sales any.

[Oimachi2]

Joomla will let you do this also with ease

[Stu_Foster]

Wordpress have two very easy to use ecommerce themes and also, at the risk of repeating myself from another thread, Magento Commerce is free with a simple paypal module (which is easily expandable at a later date) and has more features than many of its pricey alternatives.

[MisterT]

for simple hosted carts that have their own ssl, check out: mals-e, 1shoppingcart, and romancart

[ColinVox]

LiteCommerce is also very easy to use and has a very convenient interface. A Paypal integration is easily done via their add-on mod.

[MWpro]

for simple hosted carts that have their own ssl, check out: mals-e, 1shoppingcart, and romancart

I think 3rd party hosted cart solutions like the ones mentioned here are a bad idea. Sending the customer to another site while checking out and then to PayPal? In my opinion, it looks either suspicious or unprofessional.

[majjk]

I gave up 3rd party shopping carts (too much restrictions on what you can do) and built my own... or rather, I modified an existing one by whoyouknow. With just some basic php, you can make it do anything you need it to do...