Need shopping cart help.

Agora or Interchange shopping carts

[shylo]

Hi: I have a website that sells digital products. I am tring to set up a shopping cart. My hosting company has Agora shopping cart and Interchange shopping cart. Here's what I would like to do.. . allow my visitors to purchase 3 products for the price of one. I am tring to figure out, once my customer has selected their first product how do I know what the other two products are they have choosen? I hope a shopping cart will do this. I am looking for tutorials or any info on the above shopping carts. Or any info at all on how I can easily implement this idea. I use PayPal as my credit card processor. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks shylo.

[henry0]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld
If you offer only a few products
Interchange might be overdoing it
Plus it is a real good shopping system but can and is quite
hard to manage, tweak and understand
Even install is not an easy task unless your ISP has added many automatic tasks

I do not know the other one

Now again if you have only very few products and plan to use PayPal look at PayPal range of offerings
You might set your whole business with PayPal

Another alternative (More fun!)
Again since PayPal is doing for you the security aspect of your e-commerce
I will set a few forms that link to PP et voila

Regards

Henry

[RedWolf]

I can't really give you much direct help, but I know there used to be a very active mailing list for AgoraCGI back when I was looking at carts. I haven't followed it since late 2000, but it is now at on yahoogroups at:

[groups.yahoo.com...]

It doesn't look like it is very active now though. The official website is at:

[agoracart.com...]

[shylo]

Thanks Guys: I'm still looking and came across oscommerce.com Know anything about this shopping cart?

Oh and I will look into PayPal. Thanks.

And you're right the Yahoo! group is inactive, but I will visit the website. Thanks

[vrtlw]

I have had great results with OSCommerce.

It is installed by default by my hosting provider (just needs activating). I have found it extremely easy to configure and customize with my own graphics etc. There is excellent support provided in various forums too.

[henry0]

OScomm is a great
it needs some tweaking if you plan to use it on a site that
is set with "Safe mode on"

I don't remember if there is a modul for paypal but somehow I think so

also there is provision made to allow you processing the credit card info
in order to bypass the credit card processing outfit and saving on % fees

you only will need a simple credit card account
depending on service we are speaking at investing 3 to $500

if you need info on setting it working with safe mode on
let me know.

I think that the last one has now the index page page being the "index" (it was not in the other versions)
if that was not the case again I have the script modif to rename it index

[shylo]

Hi Everyone thanks for all the info it's greatly appreciated.

henryO: I have never worked with a shopping cart before. I am tring to figure out how I can keep my product delivery automated. Right now PayPal redirects to an autoresponder which sends out download info. Can I still do this with customer choosing their own 3 products? Better yet, how can I still do this? Thanks shylo

[henry0]

My understanding is that you do not have a whole bunch (Yet)
of products to offer
altough you need some features available through performing shopping cart system

you might want to use the OSCommenrce system
and posossibly do not use it only as your ecommerce link
but as your primary site

or built a frame that will integrate the OSComm system
as your main sector of interest

regarding integration with PayPal
you should have a look at OSComm support forum which as
a large number of users and is very active

cheers

let us know

Henry

[johannamck]

How many products do you have?

If people choose 3 products from a very limited selection, let's say two dozen or less, I would go with a custom script (no shopping cart). People choose their 3 products - submit PayPal or credit card payment - and, upon payment approval, they receive an e-mail with the download links. Sticky-mail me if you need the code.

If you have more products, a shopping cart is probably the better solution. Besides OSCommerce, I also like CandyPress (Windows-based).

[shylo]

Hi guys: Thank you for all the suggestions I really appreciate it, but all this seems to be beyond my scope of comprehenion. So I think I'll skip the 3 for 1 idea. Sorry to have wasted your time, but building the website was tough enough this is just beyond me. Thanks again shylo.