One of the first things I did when I decided to sell Vermont Shortbread Company two years ago was to disable the PayPal shopping cart that had been set up a few years prior.
Now that I'm resurrecting the business, I will need to get a shopping cart back up and I'm thinking I don't want it to be PayPal.
I think it's a pretty simple order to fill. There will be one product (our 8" round gift box) with probably 4 flavors and our re-entry plan is to produce limited handcrafted quantity batches to start, in the tradition of the slow food movement. So, if I decide to sell 500 gift boxes this Christmas, I want ordering to be disabled at the 500th order. Either that or enable it between certain dates (i.e., holiday orders can only be placed between Nov. 1 - Dec. 15? Can I do this?
I mean, can I...Ann Z...do this? I am fairly technically savvy, but I have never done anything like this. What should I be asking? Looking for? Expecting to pay? And could a person with basic HTML skills like me (and a lot of moxie) do it? (Mind you, I'm pretty smart, but not a masochist!)
It's definitely possible - I use Magento Commerce (free & open source beast) and you can manage inventory levels. It's a little robust if you just have one product. You could probably check out FoxxyCart but I'm pretty sure there is a monthly fee involved. A lot have monthly fees now...
Posted by: Micadams | June 29, 2010 at 07:56 AM
well, if you're talking a short run there would only be what - two months worth of fees? Definitely doable, maybe even easier depending on your host. sometimes they have relationships with places that do cart systems. My assumption is that you would rather it was just handled, and dumped in your account, etc. and some simple enough to build for short term projects.
http://checkout.google.com/sell/?promo=sequaliteamsoftware&gsessionid=wCaxgk8QGXI google checkout is one of the more reputable ones.
Posted by: brian | July 09, 2010 at 11:53 PM