e-Commerce Web Software

wandererz

Hi,

I'm looking at setting up a simple e-Commerce site however i have a requirement for customers to be able to setup their own site automatically.

Every site will have a similar look & feel.

So, my site will be called something like www.mysite.com.
When a customer wishes to setup their own webstore, they simply signup pay a small fee, choose a template & their webstore gets automatically setup as www.mysite.com/customer1 etc.

Any ideas what packages i can use to set this up?
I need it to be as simple as possble to manage.

Thanks,
W

watty

Zen is free and slightly tricky. But I supose once you do the templates... All done online, so BB is useful. You can get it to work with paypal

Actinic is great, easy and expensive. Easy for anyone to edit store off line and syncronise. Works fine even with dialup. Users get emails and works with paypal easily, or use paypal to process payments and customers don't need paypal account.

EKRIUQ

Zen cart is an excellent Cart Pagage thats open source and plenty of add-ons and once you get the hang of it its not too difficult to customise.

Yes it would be possible to have the system are www.MYsite.com/Customer1 and each person would have an online admin panel but they would need a template as you have to edit PHP code to change some factors of the layout

H3LLg0d

wandererz wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking at setting up a simple e-Commerce site however i have a requirement for customers to be able to setup their own site automatically.

Every site will have a similar look & feel.

So, my site will be called something like www.mysite.com.
When a customer wishes to setup their own webstore, they simply signup pay a small fee, choose a template & their webstore gets automatically setup as www.mysite.com/customer1 etc.

Any ideas what packages i can use to set this up?
I need it to be as simple as possble to manage.

Thanks,
W

I dont think ive seen anything for or like that before and i extremely doubt you will find a script to do that for free

and you wouldnt be giving you customer like www.mysite.com/customer1

it would be a subdomain and would look like http://customer1.mysite.com

You could offer a service to do it then and guarantee a time-line completion

just a thought

cousin_borat

Well you're thinking along the right lines in terms of allowing customers create software, in this case a web site according to their business needs. You need to think some more about how you're going to go about doing it.

Have a read of some of the concepts about saas (Software as a service). Also I don't know how familiar you are with Salesforce.com but you should have a look at what they do.

good luck

EKRIUQ

H3LLg0d wrote:

I dont think ive seen anything for or like that before and i extremely doubt you will find a script to do that for free

and you wouldnt be giving you customer like www.mysite.com/customer1

it would be a subdomain and would look like http://customer1.mysite.com

Here is an example of a company that offers that service http://www.websitepages.com/ when you subscribe they will give you a website address http://www.websitepages.com/"YourStoreName".

I used them before I built my ZEN CART store. You get all the features of a e-commerence store with your own control panel for a monthly fee. I think that this is what the OP is looking for

H3LLg0d

BingoBongo wrote:

Here is an example of a company that offers that service http://www.websitepages.com/ when you subscribe they will give you a website address http://www.websitepages.com/"YourStoreName".

I used them before I built my ZEN CART store. You get all the features of a e-commerence store with your own control panel for a monthly fee. I think that this is what the OP is looking for

is it automatic or are you given a domain with tools/ ???I aint ever seen a web with that before besides yahoo!!

Now all he gotta do is figure where to buy it;)

watty

It's equally easy to do customername.mydomain.com or www.mydomain.com/customername. I'm fairly sure I can do either with Zen cart on my hosted domain. I've had Zen cart on it and multiple wikis and both types of URL. In fact customername.mydomain.com is actually aliased to www.mydomain.com/customername fairly easily so both work at the same time.