Shopping Cart - Please Help Ive been searching for 12 hours

[msdeeva 0]

I've been on the computer for almost 12 hours straight trying to figure out how to enable my website to be ecommerce ready. I'm selling single items, so when one is sold that item is sold out. None of the items I've downloaded can dynamically change my site, which means I would have to manually change it and make the items unavailable. Meanwhile, I don't want a bunch of people buying the same item when it's no longer available, which I would then have to refund their money, and upset potential return customers.I need some solution that will automatically remove an item from inventory when it is no longer available. Can anyone point me in the right direction. I'm about to pull my hair out Thanks in advance.

[serverph 0]

check my reply in this thread (in your reply post of the same issue):
http://forums.xisto.com/topic/25836-which-shopping-basket-program-gallery-to-use-needing-advice-on-which-to-choose/

there are also two other ecommerce scripts ready for autoinstall in the cpanel (apart from oscommerce): 1. CubeCart and 2. Zen Cart

i am just not sure if they have the feature you desire. when you get hosted here, perhaps you can try to install them and test them, but my best bet is, oscommerce can deal with your requirement. oscommerce is widely used and most likely, this same functionality you want has been addressed by the product itself. but when not, there could be several plugins/modules you can add to oscommerce to get your desired function. good luck!

[David789 0]

What is Shopping Cart?

[mizako 0]

A shopping cart is this cart which is use in the supermarket to put stuff on it before paying. Speaking about buying a shopping cart is the graphical user interface used by most of e-commerce sites. Take a look to amazon to discover it

[Tyssen 0]

osCommerce and Zen Cart both have inventory control features.

[Unregistered 015 0]

I vote for oscommerce since it is the most customizable and it's easy to use.

[csmith 0]

You may wish to try the shopping cart application of shop-script "http://www.shop-script.com/;, a free downloadable shopping cart application. When a product is sold out, a "not in stock" line will appear next to this product/product's description (the not in stock tag is displayed depending on the quantity of this product which is left over in stock - this shopping cart application keeps track of how many items of this product have been sold and dynamically modifies the quantity which is left over after each sale of this item - there is an "in stock/not in stock" column in each item's row which is updated corresponding to these values in these columns as well). Each time the page for this item is loaded it will display the updated versions of these values. You have the option to not display the "add to shopping cart" next to this product if the "in stock/not in stock" value is "not in stock". Although this will not remove the product entirely from your database table that stores teh product information/inventory, it will not make the product available for sale to any subsequent customers. I do not know if there are any other shopping cart applications which offer this feature automatically, but I do know that this particular shopping cart application offers this feature without the requirement of any additional plug-ins, scripts, etc...

[msdeeva 0]

You may wish to try the shopping cart application of shop-script "http://www.shop-script.com/;, a free downloadable shopping cart application.  When a product is sold out, a "not in stock" line will appear next to this product/product's description (the not in stock tag is displayed depending on the quantity of this product which is left over in stock - this shopping cart application keeps track of how many items of this product have been sold and dynamically modifies the quantity which is left over after each sale of this item - there is an "in stock/not in stock" column in each item's row which is updated corresponding to these values in these columns as well).  Each time the page for this item is loaded it will display the updated versions of these values.  You have the option to not display the "add to shopping cart" next to this product if the "in stock/not in stock" value is "not in stock".  Although this will not remove the product entirely from your database table that stores teh product information/inventory, it will not make the product available for sale to any subsequent customers.  I do not know if there are any other shopping cart applications which offer this feature automatically, but I do know that this particular shopping cart application offers this feature without the requirement of any additional plug-ins, scripts, etc...

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This is a pretty cool cart. I went to their website to check out the specs. Before I settled on osCommerce, this is probably what I would have went with had I known. But since I already learned how to use osCommerce I'm happy with it. Although I had to learn how to modify it (since I had no prior knowledge of php), I'm happy that I chose it because there's so much community support for the application. I saw that shop-script's free version did not allow you to modify shipping options, and does not support newsletters, among other things. With osCommerce, newsletters are already integrated. I've installed a modification that allows me to show whether an item is sold out (I'm so proud ), and I modded my shipping module so that a customer can choose shipping insurance. I still have a lot to learn, but I love the fact that I can modify it to my needs. Like when I have more time, I'm going to install a mod that allows me to provide gift certificates and discounts to certain customers. Needless to say, I am happy with osCommerce, overall.