Another help me choose a Shopping cart...

[BrownD]

I will be adding a shopping cart to a front-end heavy flash site with only about 10 products and around 100 skus (colors, sizes). I don't want the cart to manage my item images, only include an 'add to cart' button next to the product.

I do need the cart to have inventory control, no monthly fees (buy the license), and be able to be hosted on my site. I was going to use PayPal as my payment gateway.

I really like Avactis, but they seem to be really new, with not alot of feedback. I have also looked into Miva, X-Cart, Cart32, and Digishop.


Any other suggestions? Do I have the right approach?

Thanks in advance

[roban]

Since you've chosen the title for this thread, you may be expecting some of the answers you're going to get.

Many people have wanted to have a cart system serve their own custom front-end and most have ended up using the cart system AS their front-end. Most systems are either php or asp and as such will not be easy to customize or integrate. I have extensively worked with Cbe Cart and CS-Cart (my shop of choice)and I have tried to do exactly as you are suggesting. In both cases I opted for a customized version of the original cart.

[cometmall]

Your approach can work only in case the properties (colors, etc) dont change the product price.

[BrownD]

Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, all sizes and colors per item will be the same price.

CS-Cart looks to be added to the list also.

[cometmall]

I think you can use almost any cart by imitating thier add to cart function ( you probably will need to add the product in admin panel also )

[Shoptistic.com]

CS-Cart is excellent, and we use a heavly modified bersion of it as our basic cart.

Highly recommended.

[skytopdesigns]

i use cs-cart and its great. i am very happy with it