Simple cart required for a dozen download products

and can charge to protx

[ewildgoose]

Hi, I have a customer who has a dozen or so products available for download. People will probably only buy one of the products at a time as well.

I'm looking for a really simple and cheap solution. Protx is probably going to be the payment processor, and in many ways a simple form with checkboxes on to let them buy a single product would be quite sufficient. There is an existing HTML website already, so I am just looking for a standalone seperate cart module to handle the payment

Can anyone recommend some very simple to setup shopping cart solution with secure download capability that might fit this need (looking so far at either Roman cart or perhaps litecommerce - both look a bit too heavily featured for what is required)

Thanks

[ewildgoose]

Thanks for the thought, but ekmpowershop is around 4 times the price of roman cart and doesn't seem to handle downloadable files. So when all's said and done I don't really see how it helps me at all?

I'm really looking for a nice cheap solution which is slightly nicer than a static HTML page with a bunch of check boxes on it which lets people pick a couple of products and then punts them on to the Protx site to take payment. It then needs to grab the payment receipt and generate a unique download URL for the customer

I could easily code this for myself, but I suspect that I can buy the facility for much less (in terms of my time)

Any thoughts on a cheap cart script which can handle downloads?

Thanks

[redphoenix]

Whatever you do, not not choose litecommerce. The very first ecommerce website I built used litecommerce and it was a disaster. Their documentation is very sketchy and they try and force you to buy all of these expandable moduals. They are based out of Russia, so tech support has a language barrier. You can't call them becuase there is most certainly not a 1 800 number to Russia, besides I do not think their own support Staff know what's happening anyways. Whatever you decide, Litecommmerce is not the answer.

[Leosghost]

If it's now available in English ..( I think it is but it's late here ..02.45am and I'm not going to check it for you till tomorrow ) try "boutika"...used to be free for upto 5 items and then not much at all for 15 and so on upto about 1000 ..
Simple interface and some basic templates ..shipping etc by weight and tax etc etc were calculated in ..I have spoken to the designer of the "soft" in the past ..( for a friend who wanted some simple cart thing like yourself to ship wine )..
He does answer his phone ;) ( can't remember if he speaks English tho ..sorry ) ..based in south of France..

hope it is helpfull

[EstoreSeeker]

I saw the LiteCommerce admin demo and was impressed with what you could change (design, layout, etc...) with out PHP knowledge. It is also easier to use than x-cart.
I think it would be more cost effective to use your clients LiteCommerce as a basic ecommerce solution, and osCommerce when they want a fully customised shopping cart.

ESS.

Ecommerce works better if it involves reliability.

[ScubaSMK]

I use litecommerce for one of my e books and it is very reliable. And their customer service is great. The time zone difference makes it a little hard to work with them but they respond within 24 business hours all the time. And they really take good care of you. I highly recommend them, I actually just bought x-cart for one of my product sites. I chose X-cart over litecommerce this time because it allows different pricing for regular and wholesale customers. The only cart I've ever had problems with is Clickcartpro. The cart is good, it needs a lot of mods and getting mods done takes forever, weeks and months, literally.

[Jack_Hughes]

jshop will do binary products & integrates into protx very easily. we run it in your setup & it works fine. it is a php/mysql shop. it costs £300. well worth the money.

[ewildgoose]

We are almost certainly going with romancart now. It integrates with just about everything under the sun and works in a way that lets you seperate the cart and the main website quite nicely

Probably we are going with OptimalPayments as well (unless anyone knows anything bad about them...)

Thanks for all the tips

Ed