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Thread: Choosing a Cart Based on Product Configuration and Shipping Configuration

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    Choosing a Cart Based on Product Configuration and Shipping Configuration

    Thank you in advance to anyone who chooses to answer this question....

    I'm trying to select a shopping cart and I'm open to either a hosted solution or buying a cart. Cost is definitely an issue as we're doing this on somewhat of a shoestring and I anticipate low $$ sales volume for some time.

    Very small start-up with small relatively low cost items and multiple configurations for each item; at least three drop down options per item including package size and packaging type which will both affect weight and price.

    I have two primary concerns:

    1. The ability to add product configuration options that will show the customer the price of the item after they select the size and product packaging. Almost all carts do this with varying degrees of front end user friendliness, a few carts I've demoed amazingly don't.

    2. The ability to accurately calculate the shipping weight of multiple products that will be shipped in the same box. This one seems to be a doozy. I have yet to see a cart that will allow you to specify the shipping materials weight separately and spec max limits for how many of a product will fit in a specified shipping container/box size. I feel this is important because a significant number of our orders would fall within the 13oz limit USPS Parcel Post category which would save customers a ton of money on shipping. Is this impossible? I don't really understand how shipping rates are determined based on all the carts I've demoed so far. (x-cart was the only one that seemed to even come close to robust shipping options, but other things seemed less than stellar about it). I'm open to shipping functionality coming from a third party plug-in/extension if necessary. Impossible to evaluate any of these in a demo mode.

    Some must haves:
    Customer Registration
    Product Reviews
    Authorize.net as a payment gateway option
    Decent SEO tools

    If I haven't already ruled out every cart in existence I would also like to have:
    Templates that don't look like dog poo
    Discount Coupons
    Wish List would be nice, can live without it

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    Hello, orson!

    CS-Cart seems to meet all of your requirements. But please clarify in more detail how the ideal shipping should work.

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    Hello, orson!

    CS-Cart seems to meet all of your requirements. But please clarify in more detail how the ideal shipping should work.

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    It looks like a decent cart but it doesn't meet my shipping requirements.

    I want to be able to to enter specs so that the weight of multiple products in one box is accurate(separate out the packaging weight from the product weight!!!! Why does no cart do this??)

    I want the option to change from a simple Products per box range to a complex matrix of combining producst per box where products of different size modifier are allowed in different combinations.

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    It looks like a decent cart but it doesn't meet my shipping requirements.

    I want to be able to to enter specs so that the weight of multiple products in one box is accurate(separate out the packaging weight from the product weight!!!! Why does no cart do this??)

    I want the option to change from a simple Products per box range to a complex matrix of combining producst per box where products of different size modifier are allowed in different combinations.

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    All these tinny details are made with lot of backgound knowledge. You efforts to provide us so nice and useful information are pretty good.



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    Hi Orson, did u solved the problem about product&shipping configuration?

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    The cart platform is used for ecommerce ...

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