Web Shop Software advice please!
Web Shop Software advice please!
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igg

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273 posts

287 months

Thursday 28th November 2002
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As there seems to be a lot of IT people on this site:-
I run a small company and want to buy some software that will allow us to put our products into an online shop with the ability for the customer to search (we have 1800 products), put into basket, give visa details and place order etc.
I've looked about and found 3 companies that seem to do this, and to me they all seem very similar products. Does anyone have any experience/advice etc. on the following packages: Actinic, Astrosell and Erol.
Or, perhaps someone could suggest an alternative?
Please bear in mind I'm looking to to this myself, not use a web designer, so it the software will need to be simple to use and PC based/not Mac.
Thanks and sorry it's not an exciting car topic!
Igg

ninja_eli

1,525 posts

294 months

Thursday 28th November 2002
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Actinic is good, as is Macromedia Drumbeat. You then need to set up an account with someone like WorldPay etc, I'm with Barclays which has the benefit of not needing a Secure Server, and basically sends the data encrypted. They give you instructions on how to set it all up between you and them and although its not the easiest thing to do, it is manageable.

Get details of how it works before you sign up though, and if you want I can give you the instruction pack for setting it up, to see if you feel you can manage it. Email me and I'll email them to you. What I do hate about them is they keep changing their system here and there, really annoying.

I use Drumbeat and found it is pretty easy to use, and has plenty of tutorial files that will be enough to get a shop done.

Good luck.

shadowninja

79,820 posts

309 months

Thursday 28th November 2002
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bt ignite is very easy. the setup is all web-based. www.btignite.com

one day i'll use my shift key