Recommended ecommerce Linux solution?

"Agnetha Edwards" <agnetha.RemoveThis@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<tPzrb.675$xI2.49534@news20.bellglobal.com>...
 > Can anyone recommend a simple, flexible e-commerce solution for Linux?
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 > I want it to handle a simple shopping cart that downloads documents and
 > software. It doesn't even have to be a shopping cart as such: one download -
 > one payment. There is no shipping as such, only downloading after the
 > customer pays. Payment should be simple, like even via PayaPal. One of the
 > main things is I want to track sales by campaign where the buyer enters a
 > valid code that indicates the source of where he heard of the product.
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 > 'Should of course be easy to install & maintain.

You would be best advised to look at osCommerce -
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.oscommerce.org." target="_blank">http://www.oscommerce.org.</a>

It's open source, and there are contributions for downloadable
content, and paypal IPN payment methods. It's *nix friendly, and only
requires mySQL/php - which are very common among *nix hosting
providers. If your hosting doesn't provide the necessary basic
requirements, I'd suggest moving. If you host your own server -
perhaps you can hire a sys admin to add anything you don't have - or,
using cpan, it's normally a piece of cake, although a little apache
config knowledge might be required.

regards

Greg Hewitt-Long
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 > Many thanks,
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 > Dave<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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