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<node id="378205" title="recommendations for cookie cutter e-commerce toolkits?" created="2004-07-28 16:37:49" updated="2005-05-31 03:59:18">
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Hello,
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I'm seeking wisdom about preferred e-commerce toolkits to use to create basic cookie-cutter e-commerce stores. I'm coming from the perspective of a website development and hosting firm. We want to offer an option to customers that is low cost, and takes less than an hour to set up for each customer. 
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I would love if the solution also used my favorite technologies, including 
HTML::Template, CGI::Application, and the Postgres database. I once tried Interchange,
and found it &lt;a href="http://mark.stosberg.com/Tech/interchange/review.html"&gt;much to cumbersome&lt;/a&gt; to use.
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Recently, we also evaluated &lt;a href="http://www.talentsoft.com/products/webplusshop/index.en.wml"&gt;Web+Shop&lt;/a&gt; and ran into a number of issues getting it
up and running for the first store. The experience made me want to look again at fully open source options.
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As I look again at the remaining options, &lt;a
    href="http://www.oscommerce.com/"&gt;OScommerce&lt;/a&gt; caught my eye. It uses PHP
and MySQL, but is open-source. While I'm less familiar with (and fond of) PHP,
I doubt it can be any more
foreign than the custom tag languages that come along with Interchange and Web+Shop.

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I figure that if the data model is decent, it shouldn't be too hard to extend the application
with Perl if I need to. 
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Before I futher evaluate OScommerce, is there a great Perl e-commerce toolkit that I've overlooked? 
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Thanks!
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[markjugg|Mark Stosberg]
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