E-commerce software for the Mac?

[Diabolique]

Is there any "affordable" e-commerce software solutions for the Mac available? PC land has thousands of e-commerce software solutions, and the Mac very few, and are hellishly high priced as well.

[aaronjf]

Can you be more specific when you say Mac compatible ecommerce solution?

Are you looking for a plug in for Dreamweaver that is Mac compatible?

[utica]

If you're looking to put the ecommerce software on a mac server, then any *nix based software should work.

Oscommerce is a good free package.

Once on the server, you should be able to make modifications, and use the admin functions, from either a mac or pc based browser.

You can manage any ecommerce software, whether on a *nix or windows server, using mac based browsers, ftp clients, and editors.

[jonknee]

OS X should be able to run any LAMP software package that does e-Commerce.

[Diabolique]

I am looking for a Dreamweaver plugin preferaby, which can create its own databases, and a built in publish function.

[aaronjf]

I know of two that are pluggins. One is a product by product processes. Each button is scripted with all the products information. There are monthly or annual fees. It is a small per sale fee.

The second one you build a database through excel - save as tab delimited to export. The plugins interface is straight forward. Now this is not going to be an end all beat all system - unless you are running a small product list - say under 300 to 500 products. After about 300 the interface becomes slow to work with. At that point you would want to make a library item for the basic cart code and do some minor code editing with each new produc.t It is pretty simple to work with and the price is competitive. The cost is under $700 a year (I can't remember the exact cost), you would also need a gateway and c/c processer. They can set you up with both if you do not have them - third party. They are not the best, but for the price and functionality they are right for small businesses that want a DW plugin compatible with Mac. There is no "publish" feature though. You would need to build the product's page, enter the product into the excel spread sheet + export, then you choose the product from a list in the plugin, the plugin then inserts the code into the products page.

I have been using the second system for the past year while my custom PHP cart system has been in development.

Sticky mail me if you want either of the names.

[TallTroll]

You could sidestep the issue completely using Mals-e, which can be implemented directly at the HTML layer. It's also free, or cheap for the Premium package (about $6 / month or similar, IIRC), and offers excellent functionality and integration for the price point (a range of 3rd party CC txn processors for instance).