Can anyone help with this?
I have searched under e catalog but no success.
Looking for an e catalog online software to list a database of customer products to display:
Product info
Pic
Price

But not a shopping cart as this is for a wholesaler and he doesnt want to sell to public direct. He will list nearest dealers.


So basically A shopping cart without the buy option.
Help!

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=6522551#post6522551

I know all those.
I need it WITHOUT purchase options, just list product info etc but not buy

I know all those.
I need it WITHOUT purchase options, just list product info etc but not buy

you can do it with osc.

you just need to modify it with addons. or disable certain stuff.

ok will try that one thankyou. Using Opencart at the mo and not possible with that

I think zen-cart is also a nice choice for it also support disabling the buying option and are more powerful in other fields. Why not give a try?

Have a nice day,

success using Opencart which I like a lot.
Very easy just removed some divs here and there!

http://icedistribution.com/cart/index.php?route=common/home

thanks all

Thats basically what we had in mind (contracting someone to develop a custom distribution of the open source apps that fill a need in our jurisdiction). The hang up is on who could do this?

-looking for someone with both track record and solid understanding of the liability/legal indemnity issues
-someone who could potentially provide training and support services for open source apps as well

While many open source apps are getting to the point that they are serious competition to commercial ones, until there area services available (where needed and at an obvious cost), it will be tough to get open source implemented within large scale/enterprise environments. With the exception of linux servers (and to a lesser degree linux desktop OSs) it is very difficult to find professional support/services for open source software...

Thats basically what we had in mind (contracting someone to develop a custom distribution of the open source apps that fill a need in our jurisdiction). The hang up is on who could do this?

if you have needs just like any other estore, you dont go on building a new distribution out of an open source cart. that is waaaay too high scale. such things are only done for distributing the resulting app, ie, for web hosts that want to offer some special distro, or branching off some cart or similar.

what you need is probably a bunch of modifications to a cart to fulfill your needs. you just need to outline the needs clearly before getting on with the modifications.


-looking for someone with both track record and solid understanding of the liability/legal indemnity issues


there is no issue if you use a highly customized open source cart for your business or personal use.

IF you are intending on selling the distro, then you have to have something original within the distro, and technically just sell that addition. you cant just bundle up open source code and sell it.

ie basically ;

lets say you have a full distro compiled. then, you create a new, from scratch modification or feature that works on that distro, and sell them bundled. legally, you will be selling the modification, but you will be giving out the rest open source parts of the thing as free. only this can work.

also you shouldnt be selling any encryption/decryption mechanism including code to countries that usa embargoes, if you are living in usa.


While many open source apps are getting to the point that they are serious competition to commercial ones, until there area services available (where needed and at an obvious cost), it will be tough to get open source implemented within large scale/enterprise environments. With the exception of linux servers (and to a lesser degree linux desktop OSs) it is very difficult to find professional support/services for open source software...

open source apps can do anything. many more things than commercial ones.

the difference is, you have to modify your own app. open source apps come as a broad, generic framework to do stuff on. they are generally not targeted to specific niches because they dont need to make money on sales. therefore, you just gotta take the thing and build on it.

nicely explained unity100
:-)

nicely explained unity100
:-)

hehe thanks. sometimes clients come up with requests that make your eyes go crooked. you eventually garner experience in the process.