Roman Cart alternatives

[hargreaves56]

Hi there.

Been looking at Roman Cart recently. Like the simplicity of it but it does look a bit dated in places. The cart obviously.

I have sent them an email asking some questions, good test if they get back to me or not!

Are there any alternatives to it?

Or can you achieve the same process another way. Basically, the attraction of roman cart is that i can simply past the Add to Basket button into my pages. This is good for me right now because our site is not database or CMS driven, it is statically built page by page. This is for many reasons.

Anyway, so pasting the code in is ideal. However Roman Cart is just that a cart! No login, customer orders, accounts features.

So are there any options like that? I want the copy and paste code bit of Roman Cart but the customer account section of magento or similar.

Many thanks!

 

[Dawg]

Roman Cart has a whole backend, simple yes, but it's there and it's ok for micro ecomm sites, quite good in fact. Discounts, offers, cross selling are easy to find and use. As you say, It's simple. And cheap.

 

[hargreaves56]

Thanks.

I know about Romans carts back end for sellers but I am talking about an account section for customers, like you normally do on sites... login... maybe view orders, remember your address etc

 

[brownie]

Been evaluating www.opencart.com and been very impressed so far, worth a look.

 

[gibby]

we use cubecart. simple to use & lots of support online plus plenty of ppl to do work for you at great rates

G

 

[edmondscommerce]

CRELoaded for me if the requirement is cheapness and not worried about it being dated

 

[RedEvo]

Thanks.

I know about Romans carts back end for sellers but I am talking about an account section for customers, like you normally do on sites... login... maybe view orders, remember your address etc

The thing I like about Romancart is the the fact you don't need to create an account to buy something, users seem to like that. As for remembering an address Romancart does this as standard and with postcodeanywhere it offers address lookup.

Romancart also provides a simple order tracking system.

The really nice thing about Romancart is you don't need to use a prescriptive ecom product, you can use it with Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, static sites, anything

As for look and feel it's all customisable so again you can make it look however you like.

There are some restrictions such as Google Base exports but these are not insurmountable.

d

 

[hargreaves56]

Thanks RedEvo.

It had slipped my mind that logging in can be a pain!

I am going to download the trial with a view to send sagepay through it.

 

[ccjo]

We've used Romancart with Sagepay very successfully for 2 years now. It's always tough to choose a system but it has worked well for us.

Jo

 

[RedEvo]

Thanks RedEvo.

It had slipped my mind that logging in can be a pain!

I am going to download the trial with a view to send sagepay through it.

There's nothing to download it's a web based service. You can't use payment gateways with the free version.

d

 

[hargreaves56]

I mean sign up and then upgrade.

Someone has just kindly pointed out to me that Roman cart doesn't look very secure. For example, you can just change the url to whatever price you like:

http://www.romancart.com/cart.asp?itemname=A+great+product&storeid=10000&quantity=1&price=5.95

So that adds a product called "A great product" at 5.95 to the cart. However, you can easily alter the link above, so that it adds the same product at 1.95 like this:

http://www.romancart.com/cart.asp?itemname=A+great+product&storeid=10000&quantity=1&price=1.95

 

[Dawg]

Yes it is possible that the DEMO cart is a little insecure.
theURL is:http://www.romancart.com/cart.asp?itemname=A+great+product&storeid=10000&quantity=1&price=1.95
On a live cart the URL is: http://www.romancart.com/cart.asp for the basket and https://secure.romancart.com/payment/checkout.asp for checkout.
No prices or product name.

 

[hargreaves56]

Yes that is correct, my mistake!

 

[Spock]

Mals Cart is very similar to Roman Cart

 

[hargreaves56]

I might just use the paypal checkout system. But then I have had problems with paypal in the past. Hold on!!!... Google checkout.

Anyone got any examples of using g checkout on websites???

I take it it works the same way as romancart... bit of code for the basket button??

 

[shopintegrator]

Hi,

As alternative to Roman Cart, please consider our Shop Integrator ecommerce toolkit, allowing you to add a feature rich Web 2.0 style online shop in to your website with just copy and paste.

 

[Brightpearl]

Hi there hargreaves56, I'm interested to know why you don't think a database driven system is for you? It makes your administration really simple and quick so that you can get on with actually driving sales. Google base integration is automatic (just by way of example, one of our clients took an extra £3,000 on their site last month just by plugging in the GoogleBase feed.

 

[mattlast005]

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