need help with shopping cart

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below is my original question but I have basically answered it myself and have another question.

Does anyone know of a java based shopping cart that is compatible with stripe payment gateway and can be put on my existing site?


I need to put a shopping cart on my online store site. I have been reading a lot of posts about them and see open cart recommended a lot. I have also done a lot or searching for reviews and comparing the individual shopping cart sites. Right now paid is not an option.

When I go to the open cart site, they only seem to offer it to work with their templates. They offer a "custom" template but I don't like the look of it either.

My question is: is there a way to integrate open cart with a site that I already have mostly set up? Or do I have to start all over? Do I have to rename my pages .php to use it or is there a way to keep the html extension?

Anyone have any experience with this?

Also, has anyone had any experience with snipcart? It looks a lot easier to code in but they require a pay per use fee and don't seem to have as many language options.
#cart #shopping
  • Profile picture of the author topnichewebsites
    You can most likely add a mod for HTML pages, but on your original question, if you didn't want to start over again from scratch you can import your products with open cart. Probably a mod well.

    So short answer is ... yes is doable without starting from scratch.

    FYI .. stripe gateway a mod too, so you would need at least 3 mods to move forward

    You might want to look at other shopping carts

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    • Profile picture of the author alexiseverson
      thanks

      I've been looking at shopping carts for two weeks and gotten myself totally confused.

      What is a mod?
      If I can import products can I import my template too?
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  • Profile picture of the author topnichewebsites
    Mod is a what you can call a plugin .. an enhancement to the program.
    Import products, most of them you can but you have to follow there import procedures
    Template .. .probably not but you probably could re-create it.

    Might want to hire someone as this is not an easy task

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    • Profile picture of the author alexiseverson
      thankyou
      I uploaded open cart but when i went to the page to install it I get error message
      "PHP5.3+ Required"
      So I guess I have to contact my webhost about that?

      I have pretty much resigned myself to redoing my site. A good thing I decided to get
      the shopping cart before I got any more done than what I have.

      Just hope I can get it to work.
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  • Profile picture of the author topnichewebsites
    Depends on your hosting and if you have access and if its avail you can change to PHP 5.4 ask your host

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