Interesting Quote Request

We are currently using RomanCart, which quite frankly is an fairly great shopping cart. But like all rented/leased carts, we find limitations when we need something that they do not have on their schedule to add. Sometimes it is (at least to us) fairly obvious that it is badly needed and should be added. For example, You cannot override the ground shipping and make it free. Now before you get excited and start making obvious assumptions, we can make it free by entering zero lbs and that works, but if a customer wants to select 2 or 3-day, they cannot.

We are looking for a new “very secure” shopping cart and have looked at several free and paid. OSCommerce (which is actually fairly good once we made some changes like 1 page checkout, etc. In addition to the basic stuff, we would also like to see the following. XCart which does not integrate with Google and PayPal. PdAdmin Pro (which we bought) but does not integrate with Google Checkout or PayPal. We know we can add this functionality ourselves, but would rather find a cart with it, so we can focus on our business.

Source code is almost a must. We are tired of having our hands tied by some developer who writes for themselves. We had one jerk actually make a change without any notice that prevented customers from using the cart for 5 freaking days.

Integrations with Google Checkout and PayPal. i.e.. Not just a link to them. We want communication between them and the cart, so that the shopping cart has a complete copy of the order just like the regular orders. i.e.. We want our metrics all in one place. RomanCart does this. If we could purchase the source for RomanCart, we would be very happy. If I could just get them to make changes once in a while I would be happy with them. We also tested Ecwid which had some impressive Ajax code, but again failed in the Google & PayPal integration.

Live Order tracking so customers can track where their order is. Funny, but most carts fail on this obviously needed functionality. EasyCart handle this very well.

Work with a previous existing website. i.e.. We call the cart with a product ID, instead of the cart building the website.

A really valuable feature would be PCI compliance. For example, delete all credit card details after products ship.

Most carts ship all products at once, but RomanCart allows you to ship partial orders. Very nice feature. Too bad you cannot get the source.

Note: It appears that a cart in .PHP or .ASP are better then Java, but I would think, that the way we use ours now would make a C# or C or C++ more secure. Maybe you can shed some light on this, offer us a solution, or point us in a possible direction to investigate.

Also, do you have a demo of the control panel?  The part for updating statuses and adding the tracking numbers..

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