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Re: [mv] Evaluating your shopping cart software
>****** message to minivend-users from Thomas Waterbury Davis
><tom@macmobile.com> ******
>
>I am interested in your shopping cart software. I have a list of
>requirements that I need to make sure your software meets. Please let
>me know if there's anything on my list that your software cannot do.
>
>• user easy-to-use
>• download order files and transaction logs
>• SSL (what ever that means)
>• Add or delete products
>• edit product attributes and changes in shipping costs
>• search functions (for sometime down the road)
>• customer receives email receipt confirming order
>• I receive email notification each time an order is received
>• shopper can print out completed order form if they wish to mail in
>order w/check
>• tax and shipping (sales tax for Ohio residents) include shipping to Canada
>• weight threshold shipping charge is based on the weight of the order
>• select the regions where they must collect tax and percentage of tax
>to be collected
>• multiple product attributes such as size and color
>• customer has the option to continue shopping, modify their cart, or
>proceed to check out
>• customer always know the exact amount of purchase before they pay
>• be able to add commerce capabilities with on line credit card processing
>• I would guess the customer needs to be able to give shipping address
>and billing addresses if different
>
>Yours truly,
> -Tom Davis
Minivend will allow you to implement all of the above. It is certainly one
of the most powerful and flexible systems around. Most of the options you
list are actually supported in the demo shop that comes with minivend.
Mike Heins, the developer of minivend, is highly dedicated to this system,
and continues to improve and support it. I have been using minivend for
some time now, and I am still highly impressed with features and
capabilities.
How easy a minivend shop is for the end user depends on the developer who
implements a shop with it. There a very few limitations. You can make
shopping as easy and as complex as you like. The power and flexibility do
come at a price though. Expect to spend some time with the documentation,
mailing-list, and experimentation before you will be able to use it's
power. Getting really comfortable with minivend is a time consuming process.
On the other hand you will find this mailing list provides a lot of helpful
advice. Often I have found very good (straightforward, easy) solutions to
problems here (special thanks to Mike), the list is one of the more
productive ones that I have joind.
Also: Developing with minivend is fun.
cheers, Frank
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Frank Miedreich
Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung
Leopoldstr. 24 80802 Muenchen +49 89 38602-237
