One product on landing page cart

a two step total cart

[eljefe3]

Any recommendations on a cart that needs to only handle one product ( of course maybe down the road add a few more ) and the homepage is the landing page and page one of the cart. Ideally the cart would be a two step only cart with the first page having name address, email addy etc., while the 2nd page gets billing and shipping info.

Ideally the cart people could install to integrate with our landing page.

Recommendations?

[lorax]

Custom build. Readily available PHP or other function tool kits that come with the card processing scripts ready to go. Otherwise you'll spend a whole lot of time stripping an existing package of all it's peripheral programming.

[Jack_Hughes]

Easiest of all would be to use something like amazon, Google Checkout and/or paypal and just have a buy button that takes the customer off site to pay via one of the above services.

[coopster]

Timely discussion, and a discussion that I have had myself with a very intelligent fella at Pubcon 2007 in Vegas. Was hoping to bump into him again this year but unfortunately he was unable to attend ;)

I'm chiming in to ask a question, or more specifically, to get a project charter of sorts. What would be the critical requirements for a project such as this? We could also throw in the beneficial requirements. So, a "have to have" and "would be nice to have" list. I think it would be helpful for anyone that was intending to develop themselves or even to use as a checklist when evaluating different options.

[lorax]

Yea... sorry bout missing it but someone had to mind the store while the rest of you were off having fun!

[D_Blackwell]

Consider a super simple cart option like Mal's. There's a free version, but foolish not to go with paid version. Easily configurable and expandable. Just put a buy button on your item, click to Mal's checkout - billing, shipping - done. Bigger question than the cart is how you are taking the money. No merchant account, or not enough volume to justify, then PayPal, Google options may be way to go.....even though it'll cost you more to process transactions. If you're doing more business then go with a simple cart and a merchant account that will give you a lot better deal on transaction costs.

I accept PayPal on most sites, because too darn many people want it available:(( CC a lot cheaper for me though because we do enough volume that we have no monthly fees at all - just a straight percentage based on average ticket. Each website has it's own discount rate based on the average ticket for that site.

[eljefe3]

The one page/landing page checkout is for the free trial offer products that are so hot these days. I've found a cart that will do the mods for me, so it looks like things are sorted.

[Jack_Hughes]

@eljefe - which cart did you go for in the end?

[chewy]

yes - can you tell us please?

I was a big fan of 1shoppingcart but on another post I'm having my doubts and may be looking for alternatives.