Hello. I need to introduce a shopping cart in a site. This is supposed to sell products and access to a page. For example, if you pay an amount you can view a film online in a secured page, or I will send you the DVD. And I need that the user can add more products to the web. As far I know, this is possible with mals ecommerce and webyep. Isnt it? Or, is there any better way to make this?
Well. Im having a look at shopify as well. I think this is more independent, isnt it? So, you cannot integrate it with your site. Have any idea about this to recommend me? Another point is that the shop is going to have 4000 articles (four thousand), an the user should be able to admin them.
Wow, comparing a Saturn V rocket with a clapped out Chevy! Shopify would be more in scale with 4,000 products. I am certain you can manage inventory in it, and it also does the entire commerce thing much more elegantly than Mals does. (It’s written in Rails instead of Cold Fusion.) That would be a really cadillac way to go.
I’ve also heard great things about Ecwid with Mals, but I don’t know if it does inventory. FoxyCart is another JavaScript cart (like Mals) that has a great developer API and lots of configurability. Not sure if it does inventory, but I am pretty sure it does.
Walter
On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:36 PM, rakeljuice wrote:
Well. Im having a look at shopify as well. I think this is more independent, isnt it? So, you cannot integrate it with your site. Have any idea about this to recommend me? Another point is that the shop is going to have 4000 articles (four thousand), an the user should be able to admin them.
Linklok is a popular add-on to Mals that allows you to sell digital “things”, with all the one-time-download niceties observed. You could use that for a smallish catalog of products. As we have been discussing here, that won’t work for physical products that have limited inventories, though, and it’s easy to imagine selling out of Home Alone DVDs at the holidays, so you either have to say on top of your inventory or implement something else to maintain inventory.
Walter
On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:04 PM, rakeljuice wrote:
Hello. I need to introduce a shopping cart in a site. This is supposed to sell products and access to a page. For example, if you pay an amount you can view a film online in a secured page, or I will send you the DVD. And I need that the user can add more products to the web. As far I know, this is possible with mals ecommerce and webyep. Isnt it? Or, is there any better way to make this?
Hello Walt. Thanks for your answer. As far I understand you, you recommend me shopify, and for digital things Linklok, isnt it?
I dont understand quite well when comparing the chevy and the rocket, but I think you mean that Shopify is better than Mals. Only for the aspect, I like shopify more.
I dont understand quite well when comparing the chevy and the rocket, but I think you mean that Shopify is better than Mals. Only for the aspect, I like shopify more.
Mals is a very widely used cart, I don’t mean to disparage it too much, but I always equate Cold Fusion with badly-maintained intranet sites, crashing, slow and awful. Rails is made of unicorn blood and rainbows (and yes, you can make crap with it as well).
Thanks again. Today my brain is not so poliglot… and I didnt imagine about naming “digital delivery” that thing… Thanks again.
I had a look about both, and I like linklok paypal for a a little web to sell this digital things, as mine, where I was thinking about selling a ticket to view a film online, but just from 3 or 4 different films each month, so I thought I needed something as paypal, just to pay, not a complete shopping cart, but on digital, and here it is!! And the shopify app for the bigger one.
I think it is better that all details already included in your shopping cart details and that only in confirmation shows all items that are being paid.