shopping carts

[cheeky monkey]

:?: Anyone use AGORA? Or what do you use on your site and why? Like it or hate it? Tips?

[Kewee]

I wrote my own shopping cart because I wanted it to update the quantity of the item just purchased from one to zero and disable the order button so no one else could buy the same item. I also needed the cart to be able to apply sales tax to some items (those made in ME) and not others (those made in NH), even if all items ship to ME. And I wanted to assign the NH items a higher shipping fee (and so on, and so on - it kind of got out of hand). I don't know of a commercially available cart that can do these things, or permit you to customize away to your heart's content, but I'd be curious if anyone else knows of one that's easily integrated into a website you've written yourself (or maybe not, it was a bit of work).

Lisa
www.keweebead.com

[InspirationToolworks]

I expect I will be converting to oscommerce sometime this year.

It is the main open source shopping cart. Completely configurable. Maybe too much so for some people. Some changes require tweaking the PHP, but I'm okay with that.

If you don't want to play with shopping carts, I'd take a look at Pappashop.

-Jeff