Re: Shopping Cart

Our experience has been that external shopping carts tend to be more
trouble than their worth, as they have been designed with 1000s of options
and preferences to allow you to tweak just about everything under the sun.
At the end of the day this isn't a complicated process,

1) Identify the "owner" of the cart, could be a session, a machine, a user,
etc.
2) Add items to cart incl. any key you need (item # if you will),
description, price, qty etc (should be old hat for any i programmer)
3) summarize cart total and slam against credit card processor.

Of course there will be 100s of small differences you need, but it's often
easier to tweak your code than it is to modify all the settings in a generic
"shopping cart", especially if the back end is an i as I don't know of many
(any) standard packages w/an i backing store.

-Walden

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From: systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;> [mailto:
systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 2:59 PM
To: .net use with the System i
Subject: [SystemiDotNet] Shopping Cart

We are building a custom eCommerce site (for eGov functions like licenses,
permits, pay water bill, parking tickets, etc). We envision someone coming
in and in one transaction pay their utility bill and parking ticket (or
other things they need to pay for). While we don't have the overall flow
decided yet, I am curios how others have implemented a shopping cart.
Looking at some of the eCommerce packages out there, they are focusing on
the whole shopping experience (product to shipping). We really just need
the
shopping cart as we don't deal with much with a fixed price.

For instance, you request a building permit, there maybe a large process
before you can actually purchase it.

Do you know of any shopping cart solutions that can integrate into a custom
eCommerce site?

I am starting to look at nopCommerce right now.


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