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General Design: Using a Shopping Cart CMS without the Shopping Cart

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    • CommentAuthorlightasair
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2007
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    Hi,

    I am working on setting up a cms for a retail business site that I have been hand coding. We are getting ready to double the size of the site, because rather than have just an index page listing all of the products in a given category, the client wants to have individual pages for each item they carry.

    However, they do not want to sell the items online. I plan to use a cms when I redo the site, but I am wondering about how well shopping cart cms platforms (sunshop and squirrelcart are the two I am currently looking at) work if you do not want the shopping cart features to appear.

    Any ideas? Maybe a different type of cms is in order?

    Thanks!
    • CommentAuthorbmurphy3
    • CommentTimeOct 21st 2007
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    Hi Widesky !

    The I Have a similar client who sell designer kitchens, As I usual build e commerce site, I simply found the ID tag for the purchase item/add to cart, marking it as display:none; within my stylesheets.

    This will give all the page functions and benfits of an online store without the user being able to purchase.

    If you are going to use a e-commerce CMS, I would go for anything which is open source ! I Spent weeks converting a paid for system into XHTML / CSS 2.0 ( Basically turning Tables into Div's ! ).

    Paid for systems tend to have Expert PHP but limited befits for design, as they tend to be designed for all, including mugels.
    Secondly Open Source is a community, so help is more open.

    I would recommend this ( http://www.magentocommerce.com ) very new still in beta, but already creating a strong following.

    Hope this has been some help.
    • CommentAuthorlightasair
    • CommentTimeOct 21st 2007
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    BMurphy3,

    Thanks for the suggestion. That sure looks like a nice cms from the quick tour I did. It might even be more than I need, however, I am going to look into it a bit more. If its as simple as a display: none, then it might be a solution.

    I was also thinking of Expression Engine, which I really like as a cms, but it is certainly not an e-commerce solution on scale with this.
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    Hi.This is John.I am impressed with this site.It's nice.I have similar thing i am dealing with.
    I have something for you.

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    For Sale By Owner
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    i would also recommend www.magentocommerce.com
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    Hi There,

    Let's get thing straight.
    First shopping carts are not CMS.
    Pretty much any shopping cart can be setup through the admin so you can use it as catalog only to display products.
    Meaning it's still the same shopping cart but user can't buy products only view them.

    Cheers, DS
    • CommentAuthorelacss877
    • CommentTimeMar 2nd 2010
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    You can try cart alternatives like:

    Sell Online
    Totaling Demo

    They seem to work by using a script to calculate the cart totals
    on the same page. Your customer selects their products all on one page. This saves
    having to bounce back and forth to the server.

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