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

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From: "Ben Liddicott" <ben.liddicott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:28:22 -0000
Subject: [cobalt-users] OT: Shopping Cart/ECommerce suite handling
international issues
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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.

Cheers,
Ben Liddicott

Ben,
I use Merchant Order Form, www.merchantpal.com . There's a bit of learning
involved, but it is cheap, and support is very good. Can be customised quite
easily. You may have problems handling different currencies though.
Declan Connolly.