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RE: What can Minivend Do?
Out of the box, Minivend is a system to sell famous art via unencrypted
email orders. :-)
Seriously, Minivend can be customized to do many things, including all of
the things you mentioned. Theoretically anything you can do in Perl, you
can do in Minivend.
The downloads, price breaks, and membership level are fairly
straightforward. The rebilling would probably be implemented outside
Minivend, accessing databases used by Minivend. As for speed, SQL is not
necessarily faster, but can be on large databases and complex searches.
There are many ways to speed up Minivend. Some of the basic ones are
covered in the FAQ.
Christopher Thompson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Russ
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 3:28 PM
> To: Minivend-Users (E-mail)
> Subject: What can Minivend Do?
>
>
> ****** message to minivend-users from "Russ"
> <russ@khouse.org> ******
>
> Hello List,
>
> I need to evaluate Minivend based on some new paramaters my
> supervisor is
> giving me. I've been using MV for about 6 months and have a
> good looking,
> functional website in operation. I'll soon be starting a completely new
> project and need to determine whether or not MV is the best
> solution for the
> new project. Any information would be great, but the best
> information would
> be a "how" to accomplish it...
>
> 1. Digital Delivery: can minivend allow for delivery of goods
> such as MP3?
> This would need to be done in such a way to discourage theft -
> "not a static
> download page".
>
> 2. Subscription system: rebilling of items automatically (on a timed
> schedule).
>
> 3. Price breaks: we need to be able to give price breaks at different
> purchase levels. example: $14.95 each, or 3 for $30.00.
>
> 4. Speed - the current setup of Minivend seems slow. Maybe my page
> rendering is taking a long time? Maybe the interpretation of
> the MV tags?
> How can I get a speed increase? What kind of speed
> increase/decrease could
> we expect to see when it is put into an SQL database?
>
> 5. Membership levels - users get a greater discount dependent
> on their login
> name.
>
>
> Thank you for your support of Minivend and proving that Open
> Source Rocks!
>
> Russ Mann
>
> Programming Department Manager
> http://www.khouse.org/
> Koinonia House Online
>
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