Shopping carts?

[Unregistered]

Do you have any free shopping cart scripts you can install?

My last host had THAT'S AN ORDER, which a lot of sites seem to list, It seemed to be just what I was looking for, but they could never make it work, one of a number of petty irritations (like taking couple days to answer support Qs, if they ever answered at all) that is driving me away.

[Unregistered]

Whoops! Me again - just noticed that you do list two shopping carts. I'm not familiar with either - any place I can find demos or a list of features?

[Martin]

Indeed we do.
We support Red Hat Interchange, and Agora Cart.

Do you have any other questions?

[Chris]

Demos for Interchange and Agora Cart.

Interchange: http://interchange.redhat.com/
Agora Cart: http://www.agoracgi.com/ (site seems down)

We also provide full support for shared SSL so you can pass your orders via a secure 128-Bit encrtyped connection to the shopping cart and provide complete protection to your users.

[Martin]

Thank You Christopher, saved me looking up the links :).

[Unregistered]

Thanks. Sounds good.

Any idea if there's a not=too-convoluted way to get the orders back to me from the server by secure means? Most of these shopping carts seem to make a big fuss about being secure one way, then just dump them into unsecure email the other.

I love the notion of having a pre-sales questions forum. Actually, any forum at all is great - the current problems that are driving me away from our old servers would be easily solved if they had such a forum!




Originally posted by Chris

We also provide full support for shared SSL so you can pass your orders via a secure 128-Bit encrtyped connection to the shopping cart and provide complete protection to your users.

[Chris]

I am not 100% sure as I have never used the shopping carts, however I would imagine Interchange has a way to get the orders back securely. Normally, if you are passing credit card information it would be sent to the payment gateway server securely (which can be done) and they will process it. If you are processing the credit cards offline you could probably have it send it to you encrypted using PGP or similar.

[Unregistered]

Oh wrong URL for Agora, try

http://www.agoracart.com/

[Chris]

That's it :thumbs:

[Unregistered]

Oh hey is that SSL included in the price or an extra?

And are you sure that your shopping carts will work with a shared SSL? A lot of them won't.

Let me rephrase that question: do you know of people who are sucessfully using the shopping carts you provide, on your cheaper accounts?


Originally posted by Chris
Demos for Interchange and Agora Cart.

Interchange: http://interchange.redhat.com/
Agora Cart: http://www.agoracgi.com/ (site seems down)

We also provide full support for shared SSL so you can pass your orders via a secure 128-Bit encrtyped connection to the shopping cart and provide complete protection to your users.

[Chris]

Oh hey is that SSL included in the price or an extra?
SSL is included with all plans at no extra charge :)

And are you sure that your shopping carts will work with a shared SSL? A lot of them won't.
I just installed Agora cart to test this for you and within the configuration it has a section asking "Please enter the Secure URL to your agora.cgi store." I presume if you input your secure URL there it will make the payment pages secured.

[Unregistered]

Not necessarily. A lot of the free shopping carts are funny about shared SSLs and won't work with them. I am not really very clear on the details, but I know one says the secure and non-secure forms must be on the same server. So many thanks for trying it, but until it is actually taking orders in the secure mode, it is very hard to say whether or not it will.

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I just installed Agora cart to test this for you and within the configuration it has a section asking "Please enter the Secure URL to your agora.cgi store." I presume if you input your secure URL there it will make the payment pages secured. [/B][/QUOTE]

[Chris]

Seems to work fine, test it here for yourself if you like: http://www.rochenhost.com/carttest/agora.cgi

Click on "MULTIMEDIA" for example, then go to the payment pages and you will see it goes via the secure server :)

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Chris
Seems to work fine, test it here for yourself if you like: http://www.rochenhost.com/carttest/agora.cgi

Click on "MULTIMEDIA" for example, then go to the payment pages and you will see it goes via the secure server :)

Thanks. Seems to work fine from this end - I ordered and got a nice confirmatory Email.

I notice you have it set up for off line. If I haven't burnt out my welcome here yet, I'd be really interested to see a copy of the notification that it sends the merchant, which I assume you will be getting, just tosee how it lays out the data and how amenable it will be to scripting to put the data into at database. If you couldl send forward a copy to slindo666@yahoo.com, or just post it in this thread, I would be much obliged.

[Gray]

I'd be interested in seeing that as well Chris:D

[Chris]

Not sure what the email looks like as I don't have an address entered for that, but I presume it just contains the information entered or it may not send an email and register it in some form of database that can be accessed via the script's control panel. Your best bet would be to look around the Agora site as I am sure it's packed with information about it :)

[Unregistered]

Actually, they don't. This is a really strange thing, but of 12 or so shopping carts I have evaluated, NONE of them show a sample of in what form the order reaches you. Seems odd, since minor differences in how they are formatted can make MAJOR differences in how easy it is to script them for auto entry into a database or shopkeeper program.

Originally posted by Chris
Not sure what the email looks like as I don't have an address entered for that, but I presume it just contains the information entered or it may not send an email and register it in some form of database that can be accessed via the script's control panel. Your best bet would be to look around the Agora site as I am sure it's packed with information about it :)