Shopping Cart with SKUs

 >They have a
 >catalog of thousands of different items each with multiple sizes and colors.
 >Needless to say their SKU count is through the roof!

Actinic can handle any number of attributes, and each combination can resolve
to a different SKU. Each SKU can have stock monitoring.

With around 10,000 sites using the product, pretty much every business issue
has already been encountered and built into the product.

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On 15 Jul 2003 22:25:04 GMT, cdbarling DeleteThis @aol.com (Cdbarling) wrote:

  >>They have a
  >>catalog of thousands of different items each with multiple sizes and colors.
  >>Needless to say their SKU count is through the roof!
 >
 >Actinic can handle any number of attributes, and each combination can resolve
 >to a different SKU. Each SKU can have stock monitoring.
 >
 >With around 10,000 sites using the product, pretty much every business issue
 >has already been encountered and built into the product.
 >
 >Chris
 >Actinic


Thanks for the reply Chris, I'd never guess that from your web page, but that is
why I posted here. I'm downloading the demo now.

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Dean <do.not.email.me.RemoveThis@post.it.to.the.group.com> wrote in message news:<9dm9hvgbid2as5i4e762bliot9rkbvnneb.RemoveThis@4ax.com>...
 > On 15 Jul 2003 22:25:04 GMT, cdbarling.RemoveThis@aol.com (Cdbarling) wrote:
 >
   > >>They have a
   > >>catalog of thousands of different items each with multiple sizes and colors.
   > >>Needless to say their SKU count is through the roof!
  > >
  > >Actinic can handle any number of attributes, and each combination can resolve
  > >to a different SKU. Each SKU can have stock monitoring.
  > >
  > >With around 10,000 sites using the product, pretty much every business issue
  > >has already been encountered and built into the product.
  > >
  > >Chris
  > >Actinic
 >
 >
 > Thanks for the reply Chris, I'd never guess that from your web page, but that is
 > why I posted here. I'm downloading the demo now.
 >
 > Dean


A product as complex as Actinic is not easily demonstrated via a web
site. Once you install the download, you will see a number of
products, ranging from the most simple, to some of the more complex.
Something not demonstrated out of the box is:

1. Quickbooks integration
2. downloadable content sales and delivery
3. UPS Shipping integration (both online and UPS Worldship software)

For demos of those, you might want to get in touch with a reseller in
your locality - or - if you don't need those demonstrated simply buy
online.

One thing also not well demonstrated, is the differences between
Catalog, Business and Developer. More advanced features
(B2B/Wholesale pricing and Quickbooks integration are only available
in Business).

One thing we've been coming across lately are clients who want to
develop more than one store - or at least plan to - for them,
purchasing the Developer edition has been the obvious choice,
especially if they require one or more of the advanced features only
found in Business.

Price run down in the USA:

Catalog - $499
Business - $1195
Developer - $1500

Remember - each of Catalog and Business licences are *PER STORE* -
whereas you can develop and deploy multiple stores with the developer
edition. Three stores using Catalog features and you're even - or two
Business licences and you are $900 ahead!

If you need more advice, contact a reseller near you, or us (we've
been a reseller for years - since before Actinic had a US presence at
all).

We offer Actinic and Hosting packages at:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://aaabusinesshosting.com/actinic_hosting/" target="_blank">http://aaabusinesshosting.com/actinic_hosting/</a>

Packages range from 25Mb to 300Mb - with up to 6 months of free
hosting on packages.

regards

Greg Hewitt-Long - <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://webyourbusiness.com" target="_blank">http://webyourbusiness.com</a> &
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take a look at:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://68.96.233.98:1024/mycatalog/default.php" target="_blank">http://68.96.233.98:1024/mycatalog/default.php</a>

this guy did a GREAT job for me.

"Dean" <do.not.email.me.RemoveThis@post.it.to.the.group.com> wrote in message
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 > I've tried Googling the answer to this question without success and I'm
hoping
 > someone might have a suggestion. I'm putting together a shopping cart for
a
 > company that sells decorated clothing, silkscreen and embroidery. They
have a
 > catalog of thousands of different items each with multiple sizes and
colors.
 > Needless to say their SKU count is through the roof!
 >
 > I have found a couple of shopping carts that deal OK with what I call the
first
 > level SKU, t-shirt, sweat shirt, twill shirt, etc. But they don't handle
the
 > modifiers, size, color, and decoration. What I have found give you
options for
 > the modifiers. The problem, for example is when the t-shirt - red - small
is
 > out of stock. If I remove the "red" option no one can buy a red t-shirt
even
 > though the other red sizes are available. If I remove the "small" option
no one
 > can buy small t-shirt regardless of the color. Ideally they should be
able to
 > mark t-shirt - red - small out of stock and still be able to sell the
other
 > colors and sizes.
 >
 > Two questions - Is there a prebuilt shopping cart that can handle SKU's
with
 > modifiers?
 >
 > Or
 >
 > Is there a list somewhere of shopping cart vendors? I have found
 > earlyimpact.com, pdgsoft.com, storefront.com, miva.com, actinic.com, and
 > oscommerce.com. Are there others?
 >
 > TIA
 > Dean
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Tell me you only paid for the consultancy and not the product? It's an open
source application called osCommerce (see <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.oscommerce.com" target="_blank">http://www.oscommerce.com</a>), which
anyone can download and install for free, with the copyright info and logos
changed (which is a big fat no no).... You got ripped off.

Gary


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"WaNkEr" <no-onspam.TakeThisOut@dontspamme.com> wrote in message
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 > take a look at:
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://68.96.233.98:1024/mycatalog/default.php</font" target="_blank">http://68.96.233.98:1024/mycatalog/default.php</font</a>>
 >
 > this guy did a GREAT job for me.
 >
 > "Dean" <do.not.email.me.TakeThisOut@post.it.to.the.group.com> wrote in message
 > news:5348hv8gurs189cmpeicv5k30vcj1jb029@4ax.com...
  > > I've tried Googling the answer to this question without success and I'm
 > hoping
  > > someone might have a suggestion. I'm putting together a shopping cart
for
 > a
  > > company that sells decorated clothing, silkscreen and embroidery. They
 > have a
  > > catalog of thousands of different items each with multiple sizes and
 > colors.
  > > Needless to say their SKU count is through the roof!
  > >
  > > I have found a couple of shopping carts that deal OK with what I call
the
 > first
  > > level SKU, t-shirt, sweat shirt, twill shirt, etc. But they don't
handle
 > the
  > > modifiers, size, color, and decoration. What I have found give you
 > options for
  > > the modifiers. The problem, for example is when the t-shirt - red -
small
 > is
  > > out of stock. If I remove the "red" option no one can buy a red t-shirt
 > even
  > > though the other red sizes are available. If I remove the "small"
option
 > no one
  > > can buy small t-shirt regardless of the color. Ideally they should be
 > able to
  > > mark t-shirt - red - small out of stock and still be able to sell the
 > other
  > > colors and sizes.
  > >
  > > Two questions - Is there a prebuilt shopping cart that can handle SKU's
 > with
  > > modifiers?
  > >
  > > Or
  > >
  > > Is there a list somewhere of shopping cart vendors? I have found
  > > earlyimpact.com, pdgsoft.com, storefront.com, miva.com, actinic.com, and
  > > oscommerce.com. Are there others?
  > >
  > > TIA
  > > Dean
  > >
 >
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In article <bf8h4h$c536j$1@ID-43537.news.uni-berlin.de>,
usenet.DeleteThis@garypigott.net says...
 > Tell me you only paid for the consultancy and not the product? It's an open
 > source application called osCommerce (see <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.oscommerce.com" target="_blank">http://www.oscommerce.com</a>), which
 > anyone can download and install for free, with the copyright info and logos
 > changed (which is a big fat no no).... You got ripped off.
 >
 > Gary

Well..., sort of.
One CAN change the copyright info on the catalog pages, provided that
one has modified the layout and them of the pages "... to distinguish
itself from the default osCommerce-copyrighted theme". In this case, the
precious little has been changed, so I'd agree that the guy got hosed if
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"Neb Revod" <spammers.biteme.TakeThisOut@flatline.com> wrote in message
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 > In article <bf8h4h$c536j$1@ID-43537.news.uni-berlin.de>,
 > usenet.TakeThisOut@garypigott.net says...
  > > Tell me you only paid for the consultancy and not the product? It's an
open
  > > source application called osCommerce (see <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.oscommerce.com" target="_blank">http://www.oscommerce.com</a>),
which
  > > anyone can download and install for free, with the copyright info and
logos
  > > changed (which is a big fat no no).... You got ripped off.
  > >
  > > Gary
 >
 > Well..., sort of.
 > One CAN change the copyright info on the catalog pages, provided that
 > one has modified the layout and them of the pages "... to distinguish
 > itself from the default osCommerce-copyrighted theme". In this case, the
 > precious little has been changed, so I'd agree that the guy got hosed if
 > he paid for an entire application.

You can copyright the changed layout, (as I did at
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.orlogix.com/store" target="_blank">http://www.orlogix.com/store</a>) but this was a stock oscommerce install, so
while it may not be a GPL violation, it's certainly a copyright violation.

Gary

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I'm surprised no one's mentioned Interchange, free because it's open source
and used by thousands of sites including Google's own store. It's seldom been
unable to do anything we've asked it to do, and we've developed literally
dozens of sites using it including ones with pretty sophisticated
architecture and thousands of skus. You can see an online demo at
http://www.icdevgroup.org/

Cheers

Nick
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/
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