I am working for a small company developing a general ECommerce solution in Zope at the moment. We have two full time programmers working on it currently, and a graphic designer for the later stages. We are developing the Catalogue/Cart system as an open source front end for a complete realtime on-line purchasing system specifically designed for Australian businesses. In terms of implementation, we are developing it completely as a Zope Python Product. All purchaseable products are stored in the ZODB, as a hierachy of Products (the items) in Categories (folders). Of course you can have Categories within Categories. Each Category defines what attributes it's Products can have, in a method similar to the property sheets of ZClasses. It also allows for templates for the different views. I won't go into too much detail of the code, as we are intending to release it towards the end of the week. We are endeavouring to make the system completely within Zope, with no external SQL database. This makes it much easier to install the system regardless of platform, and without needing any extra skills. Our company also provides Zope hosting, but we want to make our product useable enough that anyone can install it. To implement a 'shopping cart' system, our cookies currently contain the product IDs, with no session information stored in our database. Our system will be able to be set up in a stand-alone mode in which case it will forward the orders to the merchant, or at a later stage in a realtime mode. In this latter case, it will be connected through our proprietry realtime on-line purchasing system. We were intending to keep the system under wraps until we had a first version to release, but with the increased interest in ZCommerce applications recently we thought we should jump on the bandwagon and tell everyone what we're up to. Look for a release by the end of the week, and hopefully this will inspire some more ZCommerce related discussion. -d -- Dyon Balding, email: dyon@adroitnet.com.au work: +613 98888522, mobile: +61 0414992604 Adroit Internet Solutions