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[Cliff Hirsch]

I need a "digital soft goods" feature. Lots of carts support software
downloads, but I need the ability to issue unique "PIN #s" for things like
phone cards, gift cards, etc. These aren't randomly generated (although they
could be), but are actually uniquely "picked" from inventory.

The litecommerce egoods module implements this feature really well.
Surprisingly Xcart doesn't, although the company will "develop" it for you
for a fee. (they probably have it in stock!). I got quotes both ways, and it
was cheaper to take the stock litecommerce, although I'd rather have 100%
open source code and Smarty templates, not Flexy. I may just have it
developed and flip to X-cart in the future. Or a full custom cart for
complete control.

I'm sure some oscommerce module has this, along with other carts. I looked
around and saw some half-baked versions, but couldn't find a good example
anywhere else. And oscommerce scares me. Didn't find a Zencart equivalent
either.

Btw, "reskinning" litecommerce now. Major tedium -- feels like a complete
waste of time, although I would guess its the same for most any
off-the-shelf cart.

On 2/15/07 2:07 PM, "CED" <Consult at CovenantEDesign.com> wrote:

> Cliff,
> 
> What feature is it that you only foun in lite?
> 
> -Ed
> Edward JS Prevost II
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cliff Hirsch" <cliff at pinestream.com>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP/SQL ECommerce Solutions
> 
> 
>> I am also using litecommerce, only because it has one particular feaure I
>> could not find in any other cart. I'm going through the skinning process
> now
>> -- again, (2nd time, after having it done once outsourcing).
>> 
>> Skinning does seem to be a royal pain. Not very stimulating...time
>> consuming...redundant, etc.
>> 
>> Issues to be aware of:
>> 1. It is "97%" open-source. The core is encoded using ioncube.
>> 2. Ioncube conflicts with Zend Debugger
>> 3. It performs a license check.
>> 
>> Cliff
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/15/07 11:44 AM, "Jose Villegas" <jv_nyphp at duikerbok.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Ben,
>>> 
>>> I would also take a look at LiteCommerce, which is based on XCart:
>>> http://www.litecommerce.com/
>>> 
>>> I've installed it a couple of times and it was relatively easy to
>>> customize. The most important feature over OsCommerce/Zencart is that
>>> it can keep track of inventory on product options. Skinning it is
>>> very time consuming, but I think this is normal for most ecommerce
>>> systems. It uses FLEXY instead of Smarty and you have a choice of
>>> what components to buy.
>>> 
>>> Jose