Hey all,

I'm in the process of working on a shopping card component for my company. Has anyone else done this on even a remotely mid to large size scale? Do you suggest buy a pre-built package and custimizing it (which is the case with bulletin board software)? Please advise.

- MT

Getting it custom developed can be quite pricey... I would say that it depends on the extent of customization you need.

you can find many good shooping cart scripts for free. Some use paypal and other will require a merchant account. oscommerce is one i have used in the past. Its clean and offers many different payment options.

I got mine custom developed for under $100 and its for downloadable products. So when I sell templates right after payment is confirmed they recieve the download!

I wrote mine in ASP.NET going by the tutorials and samples off www.asp.net. Really easy Budget: £0

Hmm... If you know enough programming, you should be able to write something that's customized for your own needs.

I hate the idea of re-inventing the wheel thus there are a lot of ready made eCommerce scripts that are very customizable. However, they all lack a decent template system and most are based off osCommerce which seems to be more a complex programming excersize rather than a user friendly system.