Easy to maintain shopping cart for free items

  • All,

    After discovering just how simple it is to set up and configure a wordpress site (ok there were some frustrations but once the code starts making sense it’s not so bad :P) I decided I’d like to also use the wordpress platform for a product/shopping cart page.

    My shopping cart, however, is not standard. We have a church site where you can order sermons on cd/dvd, but they are sent out for freeeee. So I really don’t need any part of the shopping cart that deals with financial transactions. I just need
    FRONT END:
    1) A friendly way to add/display/search for the products

    BACK END:
    1) some way to keep them from ordering more than X copies a month,
    2) A friendly order tracking interface to show current unfilled orders, mark orders as shipped, etc.

    Does anyone know something like that that exists and isn’t too terribly complex to configure?

    I can dump the product, customer, etc. tables to a .csv file and upload from there then use the interface to add new products every week.

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  • Hmmm, a lot of solutions could meet your requirements, such as eShop or Ecwid. But you have one requirement that’s not really covered by any plugin, which is: limiting the number of copies a customer can order per month.

    My recommendation is that you ignore that requirement for now and get started. Once your site is up and running and you start receiving more orders than you can handle, then look into having that feature custom developed.

    I do know that eShop will not be able to fulfil No 1 of your prerequisites. There’s no way to limit the no of products ordered – either per transaction or per month. Other than that, it would work.

    Thread Starter dlvonde

    (@dlvonde)

    thanks for the replies everyone I’ll keep looking. Setting up shop without an order limit is just not feasible as every order costs us money and there are some out there who are trying to completely replicate our video library which is not the intended purpose of the “store”.

    The current setup is using a platform called XCart Gold but the guy who built it spend 100+ hours customizing it to make the ordering system charge 1 penny per item then apply a 1 penny discount per item at checkout..etc. I was hoping there was a newer platform that was easier to configure with the required settings.

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