Shopping basket quotes only

[alphabyte]

Hi All,
I have opened a new thread earlier this morning but it seems to have vanished into thin air... I have searched Google and have not been able to find what I need, so I am hoping some bright soul here can help.
What I need is an e-commerce shopping basket (preferably free and/or open source) that can bypass the usual shipping and payment features, so that it only sends information by email to the user and to the shop owner, which will act as a quote.
Any suggestions, please?

 

[Thor]

Hi All,
I have opened a new thread earlier this morning but it seems to have vanished into thin air... I have searched Google and have not been able to find what I need, so I am hoping some bright soul here can help.
What I need is an e-commerce shopping basket (preferably free and/or open source) that can bypass the usual shipping and payment features, so that it only sends information by email to the user and to the shop owner, which will act as a quote.
Any suggestions, please?

I am sure you can configure most to just acted as a forwarder basically

WooCommerce is the main stream one with Wordpress

Otherwise, Prestashop or OpenCard?

 

[halfmoonforever]

Wordpress + Woocommerce = Profit

 

[rward]

Yeah - WooCommerce has a "catalogue" mode.
Either WooCommerce or you get a plugin for it.


try googling for "WooCommerce catalogue mode"
and check here for a pointer: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/...ces-and-checkout-functionality-in-woocommerce

 

[alphabyte]

Thank you for your responses.
Just for the record: I ended up using QuickCart by OpenSolution (http://opensolution.org) - it is free, and it is fast because it uses a flat file database instead of MySQL or similar. It was a bit tricky at times, but I managed to customise it to my client's needs.

 

[rward]

Thanks for the update - it's nice to know when people find a solution. (and reply to their post )

Hopefully it doesn't bite anyone in the ass when it comes to updates

 

[Thor]

Thank you for your responses.
Just for the record: I ended up using QuickCart by OpenSolution (http://opensolution.org) - it is free, and it is fast because it uses a flat file database instead of MySQL or similar. It was a bit tricky at times, but I managed to customise it to my client's needs.

I assume as your shop grows a flat file db might not be ideal for the long run.

 

[alphabyte]

You are right about a flat file system being not ideal for a large database, but the nature of the business is such that it will not grow beyond a few hundred items at most.
Actually I would have preferred a PHP/MySQL solution, but this particular shopping basket was best suited to my needs and therefore the quickest to implement. And the flat file does have the advantage of being fast

 

[SauRoNZA]

There used to be OSCOmmerce as well, not sure if it's any good today.

I recall another amazing one but don't remember the name.

 

[alphabyte]

I recall another amazing one but don't remember the name.

Gee, that helps a lot. Thanks!

 

[c10n3d_0r6]

Woocommerce has an option to not calculate and send shipping details.

 

[Thor]

You are right about a flat file system being not ideal for a large database, but the nature of the business is such that it will not grow beyond a few hundred items at most.
Actually I would have preferred a PHP/MySQL solution, but this particular shopping basket was best suited to my needs and therefore the quickest to implement. And the flat file does have the advantage of being fast

i must go and research this ShoppingCard I am more interested in how it works since two things that comes up in my brain is 1 how does it handle simultaneous checkouts since text file doesn't support writing by multiple users and can become corrupt and then just general stuff for instance in my brain a shopping card is something that grows with data daily so although the flat file may be faster it should theoretically become a nightmare very soon concidering the program will have to load the file, parse it, scan each row for the message ID, go to the right message, and then read it out instead of just doing SELECT * FROM messages WHERE item=aa AND ID > dd

I am a novice just thinking out loudly

 

[rward]

i must go and research this ShoppingCard I am more interested in how it works since two things that comes up in my brain is 1 how does it handle simultaneous checkouts since text file doesn't support writing by multiple users and can become corrupt and then just general stuff for instance in my brain a shopping card is something that grows with data daily so although the flat file may be faster it should theoretically become a nightmare very soon concidering the program will have to load the file, parse it, scan each row for the message ID, go to the right message, and then read it out instead of just doing SELECT * FROM messages WHERE item=aa AND ID > dd

I am a novice just thinking out loudly

A file per user/session is probably used. There is no stock or sale (brochure only site) so no need to update a stocklist file.

I see the only issue as manager 1 and 2 download the products file. 2 weeks later manager 1 uploads new items and 3 days after that manager 2 uploads new items overriding the info 1 uploaded.

I do like the simplicity of the solution and not being 'bullied' into using something more advanced but unnecessary.

If it works well, use it..


Edit
Also the file could/should only be a couple bytes big and can be kept in memory.

 

[Thor]

A file per user/session is probably used. There is no stock or sale (brochure only site) so no need to update a stocklist file.

Of course! I should have read the OP in it's entirety the word shoping basket got me as I envisioned the whole thing - what he is effectively looking for is a page with his products ( The details are hard coded )

A user asked "Get Quote" and then the system takes the hard coded details associated with that item and put it into a email and mail it to the user

so more a Quote system than a shopping basket?