shopping cart advice needed urgently!

Hi,

I have a small web design business in Australia and have a client who wants a shopping cart with certain features. I have been reviewing quite a few different shopping cart scripts and software and can't find one that quite fits his needs as far as I can tell. I've set up php scripts before and customised them, but I don't have programming knowledge.

I was wondering if someone on here knows a software or script that I can set up reasonably easily, and will do/have the following.

1. Layout with products going down the page, room for a brief description, a quantity box (that can recognise portions eg. 0.5 - used for weight) and add to cart button (no need to click to a new page).

2. Online login access for the client to add products and access orders. Also be able to download orders for specific date range into single file.

3. Have manual (offline) processing ability for credit card orders.

4. Be able to hide products when not in stock (without needing to delete them).

Any help would be appreciated as I need to get back to the client ASAP to tell him if I can do his site for him.

Thanks,
Vanessa

I've built a couple of sites with some of these features and and I must say #3 is a huge no go. That would mean that you would need to take the Credit Card #s and store them in a database. If this information got into the wrong hands you've got a HUGE list of stolen credit cards and guess who is fully responsible for this? That's right, you are! Not the business who the site is for, no the person who developed the site. We had a shopping cart I worked on and the previous person got sued for everything he was worth because credit cards got stolen off the site.

Your looking like you need a customizable shopping cart, which means your going to have to build it yourself. Maybe there is a shopping cart that does exactly this, if not its on to editing it.

If you don't have E-Commerce experience I wouldn't recommend doing it for your clients. There is a lot of security that needs to be taken care of before you release something like that.

I am currently working on an e-commerce site from www.networksolutions and it has the features you need I believe. The only one I'm not sure about is the offline processing of credit cards but just give them a call. Customer service is excellent.

A cusotme rof mine uses lynx internet shopping cart. I can do all of the above. but they have recently re-structured and put prices up, so may be bit of an overkill

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