posted on December 15, 2000 09:13:54 PM
I'm finally developing a web site (well, the designer I hired is, anyway), and really wanted to have a shopping cart checkout system. I found a good deal on 200mg of space that came with Miva Merchant.
Now my dilemma. As I understand it, shopping carts don't have the capability of keeping track of inventory levels. Considering that I sell antiques, I don't have unlimited quantities of a particular item and wanted to forestall the possibility that the same item might be sold twice.
Short of keeping one eye glued to the monitor and quickly deleting an item once sold, do any of the experts here know of a good workaround?
posted on December 15, 2000 09:39:09 PM
I don't know if you're trying to develop your own shopping cart or what, but you might try freemerchant.com. They have a free shopping cart program that has TONS of great features. It's a pain in the butt to set up unless you DON'T know HTML and then it will be a blessing because it's designed to be a no-brainer. They let you put a database of your inventory online so that when your supplies get low, they notify you. Just an idea.
posted on December 15, 2000 09:56:32 PM
fountainhouse:
The latest full edition of Miva Merchant
certainly does inventory tracking. It is especially database-driven. Check out the features at: http://www.miva.com/products/merchant/
Make sure your host is providing the latest version. One word of warning though..make sure your designer has some experiance with the Miva platform.
posted on December 16, 2000 09:43:29 AMtapatti, yikes. It was the designer who told me MM doesn't track inventory <gulp>. Though as close to computer illiterate you can get, I do know that the latest version of MM is on the site because the host emailed me when the new one came out a few months ago.
BTW, I found this designer on ebay. I bid and won an auction that he had for web site development after checking out his past jobs.
Oh well, I'll chalk it up to the busy Xmas season and ask him to check into it again.
trinchgirl, I've been tempted to go that route several times, especially after some long nights trying to make sense of the doggone shopping cart!
