Multiple shopping carts

Hi - we have a problematic ecommerce development which we are trying
to workaround and we wondered if anyone had any good advice. We have
an established offline catalogue in MS Access which we need to turn
into an ecommerce website. We have used Actinic on a previous project,
which was great, the problem is that we have a new supplier whose
products can only be sold in certain countries with different carraige
terms.

So we would create a html front end where customers could chose to
either order from the main catalogue or from the minority one -
products can not be mixed. As far as we can tell, Actinic, whilst it
might be superb for creating the main site, is a non-starter, as the
licensing is per-cart. We need 2 carts and don't really feel like
paying for 2 copies of Business, when this is one business [sic] just
two catalogues - we are still in startup, and whilst the minority
catalogue is a key part of the overall scheme, the 30 odd products are
unlikely to make much for a fair while yet.

Does any kind soul have any opinion on how to where we should go from
here ? Is there an Actinic workaround or a different off the shelf
package that can cope with 2 catalogues without too in deep techy
knowledge ? We have heard of Erol but know nothing about it - from
reading their website it seems that there could be the same problem.

Cheers,

Art Zeugen

You could try oscommerce. It's written in php and uses a mysql database.
It's also Free!





"Art Zeugen" <art.DeleteThis@albacookie.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9cb2635.0409180351.716f7f20@posting.google.com...
 > Hi - we have a problematic ecommerce development which we are trying
 > to workaround and we wondered if anyone had any good advice. We have
 > an established offline catalogue in MS Access which we need to turn
 > into an ecommerce website. We have used Actinic on a previous project,
 > which was great, the problem is that we have a new supplier whose
 > products can only be sold in certain countries with different carraige
 > terms.
 >
 > So we would create a html front end where customers could chose to
 > either order from the main catalogue or from the minority one -
 > products can not be mixed. As far as we can tell, Actinic, whilst it
 > might be superb for creating the main site, is a non-starter, as the
 > licensing is per-cart. We need 2 carts and don't really feel like
 > paying for 2 copies of Business, when this is one business [sic] just
 > two catalogues - we are still in startup, and whilst the minority
 > catalogue is a key part of the overall scheme, the 30 odd products are
 > unlikely to make much for a fair while yet.
 >
 > Does any kind soul have any opinion on how to where we should go from
 > here ? Is there an Actinic workaround or a different off the shelf
 > package that can cope with 2 catalogues without too in deep techy
 > knowledge ? We have heard of Erol but know nothing about it - from
 > reading their website it seems that there could be the same problem.
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 > Art Zeugen<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->