[Zope] Frustrated with ALL zcommerce solutions!

[James Sintz]

After 2 months of struggling with Etailer, EMarket, and ZCommerce I give up!

I busted my butt trying to get Etailer up and running only to be told by
Adroit that they are no longer supporting Etailer in favor of a commercial
app coming out in June (too far away for me). This, after asking a few tough
questions about Wampum and offering to pay for help.

EMarket is a whole other monster I have fought with for way too long as
well. Steve has done a great job and has been very helpful, but still,
trying to create even the simplest of stores has eluded me. The whole
EMarket experience is like trying to put a puzzle together where someone has
mixed pieces from an old puzzle in with the new puzzle and the reference
photo is missing.

ZCommerce, as simple as it seems, doesn't make any since either. Without the
demo store I am clueless where to even start. If I install the demo store
and then attempt to view the index_html page my Zope2.2.5 on Linux goes to
95% cpu and locks-up (yes I have a sessionstorage table in my gadfly
database).

Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer and the site I want the store for is a
volunteer effort I work on in my spare time. This post is not meant to start
the "if you want a canned app. then pay for a canned app." argument. I'm
fully aware that every one of these products is worked on as time allows and
are all being offered to help further Zope and eCommerce development. I
don't expect anything, but I sure do HOPE :-)

If anyone has created a simple store/shopping card that allows for secure
processing of orders (and maybe a Wampum hook) and possible product images
and would be willing to share the code, I would be willing to try and rustle
up some cash (not sure how much).

Thanks!!!!

Jamey