Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
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Anybody had any experience of Boss Cart?
Free shopping cart software that can be used on websites - I've just downloaded it to try out as I'm contemplating setting a shop up on my site to sell Dodo & Autosmart bits from.
I will only accept payment through the likes of PayPal & Nochex though to avoid having to sign up to SSL certificates etc.
People's opinions on this or suggestions for other FREE shopping cart software would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Rich
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pow
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Set it up and have a play with it yourself mate, thats the only way to do it
set up another paypal account and transfer money from one to the other etc?
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Rich H
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Yeh am going to play around with it - was just seeing if anybody had used it and experienced any issues with it - coding errors / reliability/easy to hack etc etc.
I have a business PayPal addy set up and am going to set up a seller Nochex account set up, but they'll be the only means of payment I will accept, not pay for an SSL certificate card processing function on the site as they get expensive lol.
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Cosmo
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OsCommerce is probably the most widely used, plenty of add ons and templates available because of this.
Also check out CRE Loaded which is a version of OSCommerce with a lot of the popular add ones already installed.
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Rich H
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Thanks mate 
I actually stumbled upon OS Commerce last night and d/l it but haven't got round to playing around with either yet. Will now d/l CRE loaded too 
Make that "obtain" CRE loaded  - didn't realise that one wasn't free!
[Edited on 07-02-2009 by Rich H]
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Doug
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zencart ftw 
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Cosmo
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Zencart is another OSCommerce spin off IIRC, but has a few flaws in it.
CRE Loaded has a free version, but can get the (small amount) paid version which gets rid of the need for certain features.
Most are free but require you to have a small link at the bottom of pages saying you are using a free version, so watch out for that.
One last tip - if you are after a site building but on a budget, try putting a project up on CRELance.com, people will 'bid' for what you want and it often gets you a really good price.
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Rich H
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Thanks for the advice
I'm happy with my actual site, am now just looking at adding a free bit of shopping cart to it to allow me to sell a few products on 
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Cosmo
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You've got to make the buyers trust your site, having them go to a different looking site will not make them do so - so Id really suggest making the shopping cart the same design as your site!
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Bart
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Magento?
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