Paypal is great for small sites that don't have a large amount of stuff to sell and/or update often. There is no back office, no database, no dynamic anything whatsoever, so each change to the products in the store must be done in the web page itself. If the client has to update their cart often, they either have to pay you, or learn a bit of HTML. So, the other option is to find a cart that works with paypal, yet has a database of sorts that lets the client manage their products.
I am in no way an expert on shopping carts so there may be other reasons, but this one is the one that I have run across in my experience. Jenni --- "K.F. Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > A need of using shopping cart is coming. I checked > several free carts > including oscommerce, paypal, and two offered from > hosting company. It > seems a bit unclear to me why people would use 3rd-party > shopping cart and > link to Paypal gateway, but not use Paypal's own free > shopping cart? I > believe that all or most 3rd-party shopping carts require > store owner's > database space, but using Paypal's cart does not. Does > this unique feature > make a pro or con for Paypal cart? I see no advantage > except using the > storefront/productdisplay layout from 3rd-party shopping > carts (Paypal's > cart doesn't provide storefront/productdisplay layout). > So why should I > use 3rd party shopping carts, but not Paypal's? Am I > missing something here? > > Thanks for any comments. > > KoaFar > > At 01:43 PM 2/24/2003, you wrote: > > > > I am looking for a shopping cart, written in > php/mysql/ that will > > > integrate into paypal. As I want this primarily for > learning purposes a > > > free one would be ideal. > > > >http://www.oscommerce.com/ > > > ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ > To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To set a personal password send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK > pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. > To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest > version: > http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub > > ________________ http://www.wdvl.com > _______________________ > > You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
