Quick question?

[Hedgehog Toys]

Hello all, just popped in with a quick question.

If you build a website with an online web package, can you then buy a shopping cart system and intergrate it to the website. In other words, will the shopping cart package intergrate into any website?

Hedgie

[pdecaux]

Hello

A quick question that does not have a quick, or at least direct, answer!

It all depends on the website package and the shopping cart package you choose. If you have not already created your website, then I would suggest finding one that provides a shopping cart that you can integrate at a later date. If not, you may find that any cost savings you have made in choosing a generic website solution will come back to haunt you (in a scary nightmare) when you upgrade to an e-commerce website.

[GNU]

Hello all, just popped in with a quick question.

If you build a website with an online web package, can you then buy a shopping cart system and intergrate it to the website. In other words, will the shopping cart package intergrate into any website?

Hedgie

To do it you would need to find the code that submits to the cart and get it to point to your new cart. You would need to ensure the data was of the correct format for the new cart, and make sure all the variable names matched. You may also need to change data set in cookies / the session.

TBH I wouldnt bother, if you have a cart that works stick with it.

[Malcolm Cooper]

I may have understood the question differently and maybe incorrectly but...

If you have a standard web site (i.e. a content site rather than an online shop) and you later find that you want a shop yes, you can add shopping cart software.

On way would be let's say your content site is www.content.com (http://www.content.com) . What you'd do is install cart software to www.content.com/toyshop (http://www.content.com/toyshop) for example. Then on the content site create menu links that go to the cart categories, i.e.

Wooden Toys (link=www.content.com/toyshop/woodentoys)
Soft Toys (link=www.content.com/toyshop/cuddlytoys)

etc.

[zhang]

Hello, Welcome to UKBF,yes we have

[nsdesign]

There are loads of simple carts out there that you can easily "bolt on" to an existing site to give you basic ecommerce functionality to a previously "info-only" site. The normal process is to simply create "buy links" which pass the relevant info (product name, price, etc) to the basket for processing.

Paypal for example do a fairly nice "free" solution that works well for a lot of people, but there are also other 3rd party carts that can be used and integrated more with your existing site.

At some point however, there's often a stage where "scaling up" to a more traditional ecommerce system (product catalogue, integrated with shopping cart) may prove more beneficial.

Gary