Re: [cobalt-users] OT: Shopping Cart/ECommerce suite handling international issues

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From: "Ben Liddicott" <ben.liddicott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 12:28 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] OT: Shopping Cart/ECommerce suite handling
international issues


> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm looking for a shopping cart/e-commerce system to deploy on Cobalt
[obligatory cobalt reference] (preferably open source, but
> cheap with source code will do) which handles international issues out of
the box. Specifically it should handle:
>  *  Prices in multiple currencies
>  *  Shipping to different destinations
>  *  Different sales tax when shipping to different destinations
>  *  Localization of content (not so important)
> It's for a small vendor selling a product line of ~70, to the US, UK and
Europe.
>
> I've looked at FishCartSQL (www.fishcart.org), which is pretty good, but
you have to handle languates and currency differences by
> using different catalogues. I've also looked at Interchange which is
extremely cool (and big) but has a steeper learning curve, and
> seems to require modification to support the issues above adequately,
which will affect my ability to produce a competitive quote.
>
> Any other comments/ideas appreciated.


I had this problem recently, and we ended up writing our own (I say "we"
wrote it, me personally didn't) in php/mysql...

but before you get carried away with that take a look at Jshop (soz, you'll
have to do a google) which from memory did what you wanted, was cheap, and
interfaced with a range of useful payment methods.#

HTH