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Nightcrawler
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« on: April 20, 2006, 01:58:37 PM »
I am new to shopping carts, etc. What I need is a cart that I can easily customize and add over 1000 products too as fast and effeciently as possible.  I am thinking about the Basic hosting account, will this be adequate?  How user friendly is this whole process? I don't have a lot of time to research and learn, I need to get a bunch of products up in a very short period of time. Is there a cart system that would allow me to type in the text about the product, upload the image, set price all in one?? I need like a page generator... so I don't have to create 1000 HTML pages. What do you suggest? Should I look elsewhere for a more expensive cart system that can do this?  It is very important that this process is user friendly and again FAST because I simply can't create 1000 HTML pages by my deadline and I know most big ecommerce sites probably don't have people create 1000+ individual HTML pages for their products.

Which is the best cart and most user friendly you guys have (it must include those things mentioned above mainly page generator with template!)  It sounds like you offer a few different cart systems...

I want this cart to be able to work into my site seamless or atleast until they push the checkout button.

Any help greatly appreciated...  Confused
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bryantrv
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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2006, 05:00:34 PM »
I would *bet* that OSCommerce is pretty much what you want- it has a lot of 3rd party enhancements, including templates and "contributions" ( 3rd party add ons) to add a bunch of products at once.
You will need to purchase an SSL certificate though, along with a dedicated IP address.
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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2006, 08:23:39 PM »
Thanks for the reply Bryan. How much is an SSL certificate and a dedicated IP?

I assume you've used OSCommerce or are currently using it?

Do I need a 3rd party add-on that you talked about in order to add all my products and have them generated on the fly, my main concern is staying away from creating 1000 individual html pages for the products. I just don't have that kind of time or patience and I know it doesn't have to be that way.
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bryantrv
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2006, 05:40:02 AM »
The dedicatet IP address is $2.50/month, the SSL certificate is $49/year with a one time $24.95 setup fee (they have a $69/year certificate as well- about the only big difference I can see is the $69/year one has $250,000 insurance, the $49/year, $100,000 insurance.)

I'm not using OSCommerce right now, but I have set up carts with it (and a bunch of other cart systems). It is a database driven cart, and does create all of the html "on the fly", though you do have to upload the products, of course, and put them in categories- but if you have a database with the products in it, odds are there is a script to automatically do this for you.

You can see an OSCommerce demo here= http://demo.oscommerce.com/ and read more about it here- http://www.oscommerce.com/.
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dropdeadred
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« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2006, 11:35:16 AM »
There is one other difference with the two certificates, to do with order totals that are covered. Unless you're selling low $ items, you'll probably be better with the $69.

I have the exact set-up referred to here (basic hosting, SSL, dedicated IP) and it's a dream for the price.

Adding products into Oscommerce can be done one of two ways - there is no creation of individual product pages. You can go manually 'add product' where you'll fill in some details and it will save the info to the database. There is also a tool called Easy Populate or such, that with a little more work up front will mass insert your products.

I recommend their knowledge base - there are lots of screencaps so you can see just what the back end looks like: oscommerce.info

Melanie
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