SIMPLE shopping cart?

[P Zero]

I am designing a site for a client. Its a very simple one page site on which He has three products. At the moment I have a button for each product taking the user straight to the nochex website. However, He wants me to change it to allow the user to select the colour they want, so I need a very basic cart script.

I mean REALLY basic, I don't want to spend too much time on this so I need something that I can just plonk into the page and setup easily that is compatible with nochex.

Does anyone know if such a script exists?

[NuBlue]

Does Nochex not have an API that allows you to pass variables like this to it?

[P Zero]

Yep, it has an API, but I'm not experienced enough to start playing with it and the job isn't paying enough to outsource it.

[mattlast005]

All the functionality and much more is available on www.tigercommerce.co.uk, I would have a look at that and sign up for a 7 day free trial on http://www.tigercommerce.co.uk/tiger-promo to see how easy it is for yourself.

Hope this helps.

[stugster]

Have a peek at RomanCart too: http://www.romancart.com/

[SLF]

I presume you have told the client it will cost extra?

[stugster]

I presume you have told the client it will cost extra?

That's a bit of a tangent, isn't it? From advice about a e-commerce solution to advice about invoicing the client for work done?

[P Zero]

Thanks for all the replies. I'll take a look at romancart.

Regarding invoicing, yes He knows it will cost more.

Its a tiny site and I see no point in installing, configuring and skinning a full ecommerce system just so I can add a couple of check boxes to the order process.

[awebapart.com]

Thanks for all the replies. I'll take a look at romancart.
If you are looking at romancart, also have a look at PayPal Shopping Cart (https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/sc-intro-outside), they both work on similar principles, i.e. they are both external shopping baskets.

[NuBlue]

Yeah, what you are trying to do is very simple with Paypal. I think it even has a walkthrough for this sort of thing.

I do believe that the Nochex api will be the simplest way to do this and I can't believe it has not been done 1000 times before with Nochex so maybe check there forums to see if you can find sample code for this. Installing/configuring a shopping cart for this is absolute overkill.

We did this a while ago using Paypal which I believe is what you are trying to achieve: http://www.meditationcentre.co.uk/booking - much easier to make with the payment API then to configure with an application IMHO

[P Zero]

I decided to take a look at the nochex api as mentioned above and its actually incredibly simple to do what I need to with HTML forms. I was expecting lots of php.

Thanks to everyone.

[NuBlue]

No problem. Glad you got it working :)