Handling complex product configurations

what cart, script or method is suitable?

[nevdev]

Does anyone know of a shopping cart, or product configuration/calculation script, well suited to handle products with many different options that affect the final price?

As an example of what I mean, there may be a basic product that is configurable:

-full colour, or black & white
-7 different sizes
-7 different finishes

...which would mean 2 X 7 X 7 = 98 different configurations, each of these having different prices, according to an incremental scale of number purchased.

I wouldn't want to write 98 different web pages for each configuration (and there could be more options, making even more possible configurations) - I'd rather have a cart or a script do it for me.

Is this really only amenable to a custom script job (of say, PHP/javascript/MySQL), or is there a cart or a script entity out there that can return prices from these sorts of complex product configurations?

[sun818]

try AmeriCart or ShopSite. Both offer options (aka sub-SKUs).

[lorax]

X-cart can do fairly complex configurations of products. I hired them to modify the cart to accommodate a client's need to add collections of products (to be sold as one unit) so that when the unit was sold, the cart would reduce the stock of all of the items that made up that collection. Cost us $75 and an hour of my time explaining exactly what I wanted.

[Aircut]

clickcartpro has product options configuration....totally modular....the current version is just before a major update,,,,hold your breath and get the next version