Re: Catalog or cart
| From: | Robby Russell | Date: | Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:15:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Catalog or cart | ||
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On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 02:45 -0800, Ryan A wrote:
> Hey all,
> I have a client who has a computer store, now he wants to put all his stuff
> in one site.
> He does not want to do any selling from his site, but just list all his
> items.
>
> After looking via google and the the usual script sites, agora cart looks
> pretty good and easy to maintain, other choices X-Cart,oscommerce,phpcatalog
>
> I dont really want to build this from scratch as I am sure a lot of very
> very good solutions are already out there and i would rather use the time
> instead to either tweak the software to his particular needs/requests
>
> <request>
> for example:
> he wants a few lines and a picture(optional) of his product (eg: a HP
> printer) and when clicked on it should pop up a window with that products
> details.
> </request>
>
> or cleaning up his design, digital snaps etc
>
> I've never really worked on a site like this before so I would appreciate
> any recommendations you have towards a cart or catalog system thats has
> worked really well for you, or you heard is good or you helped develop etc
> I would like a cart/catalog that is open source (does not have to be
> free..but not expensive) so i can play with the code if need be.
> The reason i was leaning towards a cart is, if he ever decides to sell
> online, i dont want to build a whole extra piece of software to go with the
> catalog.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ryan
>
Very flexible and runs on PostgreSQL.
http://www.pgcart.com/
-Robby
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