Re: Magento shopping cart

Is the client not receptive to that explanation? On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Skip Evans <skip@bigskypenguin.com> wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> >> Why spend ages reinventing the wheel? >> > > I've come across so many clients using third party carts who have been > unhappy with the final results. I hear so often "It does eighty percent of > what we need, but we do things like this [insert idiosyncratic business > practice here]." > > And then getting a third party cart to do what they wanted was often either > incredibly frustrating/time consuming, or often just not doable. > > Yes, writing a cart takes time, but I've found I can whip them out pretty > easily, and I have a lot of code I reuse all the time. I pretty much have a > complete basic cart stored away, but I intentionally keep its functionality > to a minimum so that I can expand on it to their specifications. > > To date the results have been pretty good. >