[Zope] Online shopping / ecommerce tips

[Paul Howell]

Lacking any fully ready Zope solutions, we've integrated Perl and PHP carts 
with Zope sites for several clients.  Basically, use Zope the way you are 
for managing the content, and run behind apache.  Then use SSL and a 
separate subdomain (easiest) for the actual cart software.  The buttons to 
put materials in the cart can be located anywhere, like on your existing 
product pages in Zope.  Then integrate the cart with your favorite payment 
gateway and away you go.  We ran one of our clients for the past two years 
on just such a Zope site, with a Perl cart on a different server and 
subdomain (with a different hosting provider as well), and the actual 
credit card number entry and processing took place at the gateway 
provider.  Worked well, and profitably for everyone.

Or (cheapest and easiest) use the free PayPal cart.  It works and 
integrates very simply.
=Paul


At 05:47 AM 10/28/2003, Toby Dickenson wrote:
>On Wednesday 22 October 2003 13:51, Brad Clements wrote:
> > On 22 Oct 2003 at 11:04, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> > > I am looking to integrate an ecommerce facility into an existing mature
> > > zope application. Anyone have any tips?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Toby Dickenson
> >
> > Can you give a hint as to what you're looking for?
>
>I was hoping for a solution for handling shopping carts, checkout processing,
>payment. A ready-made solution, so I dont have to think too much obout my
>requirements ;-)
>
>Also, something open enough that I can integrate it with the existing site
>that has a product catalog, but no way to purchase online.
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