Hi

I am involved in developing a number of sites on the internet. One requires a shopping cart that could be used to market products in international currencies such as US dollars, Euro's and UK pounds etc.


1) What are the best shopping carts packages available
at the moment that offer secure web transactions?

2) Is there any commercial systems available like
amazon.com and CDNow.com, that can hold customer
credit details safely for future transactions?

3) Are there any combined systems that can deal with
raising orders, credit cards and confirmation of
orders etc?

4) Are there any systems that can calculate shipping
costs to different parts of the world depending on
weight of items?

Any help would be appreciated.

First of all, I wouldn't even want to keep customer's credit card information. It's too risky, unless if you have a very secure database server but then.. I wouldn't even want to risk it.

For the shopping cart software, I used opensales .. I think they changed to the name to all commerce now. It's PHP with Perl backend .. and using MySQL for database. I like it, I don't know if the new version will let you hold customer's credit card information or not tho`. The older version only hold the customer informations without the credit card info.

Check it out

http://allcommerce.sourceforge.net/

or you can go to their website at www.opensales.com


drhonk