e-commerse/shopping carts Solution.

[rex00]

I found a new solution thats free and has built in paypal. Its not some little script but a complete solution just like interchange anyways here: http://theexchangeproject.org is the link just encase anyone else might need it.




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Greetings all!!

I'm looking for e-commerce/shopping cart scripts. I've looked through the ones at freecode.com and I really really like interchange excpet for one huge thing. Paypal I'd really like to beable to offer paypal aswell. Interchange seems like a very complex piece of software and they only way I can see to include paypal is to somehow generate a custom link on the recpet page that would interface paypal. The problem is I have no idea how to. So my question: are they anyother e-commerce applications that are like interchange (the price $0.00 is nice too) that may lend themselves better to paypal or any e-commerce solutions that may lend them selves to paypal. Has anyone ever tried to ingrate paypal?? any tips or tricks? I have a working knoweldge of perl and have a rough idea but any specifc tips would be a good help.

Thanks alot people!!
P.S. Are they are any e-commerce free apps that are better then interchange?

[Ted S]

Paylpal is not hard to integrate, not in the least but at the same time it's nearly imposible to integrate. As it stands paypal does nto offer a true merchant service. That is to say, when a user makes a payment through paypal, they must actually fill out a form with paypal. This means that you can not just use a standard shopping cart with a standard check out program, you must alter your script to send the user to a paypal page with all of their orders for them to pay you.

If you use a 'real' merchant like authorize.net, you can add a simple NET::SSL command to your shopping cart to send the transaction off, get back the confirmation (or denial) message and you're good to go.

If you wish to work with a program like interchange, you MUST have this second type of sysem. Interchange is one of, if not the most powerful shopping cart solutions on the web. Systems like this work by storing ser details, recording transactions and preforming a million other features on checkout. With a system like paypal, all you can do is return the user to a thank you page, adding their order to your database, seeing the merchant response details and things like that are simply not possible.

If you still want to add pyapl, I sugges tyou try their one-click web store. Take a look at the url it generates and start tweaking witht hat... by adding your variables into a location: tag, you cna easily add paypal payments but they probably won't do everything you want.

[Ted S]

Originally posted by rex00
Thanks alot people!!
P.S. Are they are any e-commerce free apps that are better then interchange?

I missed this part of your post before...

Interchange is your god, interchange does everything. If there's a feature interchange doesn't have, you're wrong, the feature is ther,e you just haven't found it yet. If there's a bug the support mailing list has tens of thousand sof developers who respond in hours, not days. The only way you'd get something better would be a $20,000 made-to-order e-commerce system like many of the big companies have, and even many of them use interchange :)