another ecommerce question
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- Point5
I'm putting together a small site for a Wine-of-the-Month membership club that requires ecommerce. When I was discussing the scope of the job with the client, I told them that I was not experienced with ecommerce and that I might need to outsource that portion of the job. Well, they said it would be "really simple and they know that there are simple shopping carts that can be plugged in"... I suggested PayPal, but they wanted something that would integrate well enough to still have feel like they were still on the original site throughout the process. So I did a bit of research and settled with FoxyCart. Well, now there are options that the consumer needs to pick during the checkout process:
• Wine Preference: "Red Only" or "Red and White"
• What month to start the membership
• Ship to: "Myself" or "Give a Gift" or "Pickup from restaurant"I did a little reading through the FoxyCart and it started getting into javascripting for radio buttons and such, but I'm just not that saavy with this... are there any fairly simple solutions out there that provide more flexibility than FoxyCart when it comes to selecting options for checkout, but that are still easy to integrate?
- Point50
these options were afterthoughts that the client told me after I quoted the project. I'm looking for a way to keep this as close to the original budget as possible as it isn't that big to begin with... hence the use of FoxyCart instead of outsourcing or going with a hosted solution like Volusion, which I'm helping a friend set up at the moment as well.
- airey0
easy options that i know personally would be fine: shopify, foxycart (just do what everyone else does and hire a developer and pass on the cost), wordpress + ecom plugin.
for the record, you don't tell a client that you might have to use someone else, you just do it, add a percentage and move along. if you don't have inhouse staff with the skills you outsource, the client need not know anything but the results.
- trooperbill0
try prestashop