best e-commerce solutios

We want to add a shopping cart feature to our website that will allow visitors to purchase PDF documents for immediate download. What are the solutions for approaching this project? We have a Paypal account and I heard of Mal's e-commerce.

Thanks for any advice!!!

Kim

www.endocenter.org

Hi Kim--

Welcome to TechSoup! Ecommerce has come up a number of times in the forums, so you may want to search for past discussions, such as this one and this one. You might also find this article helpful.

Best,

Megan

Other good options are ZenCart, OsCommerce, Avactis, and there are quite a few others.  It really depends on your budget, needs, and what you want to do.  Paypal can also be very limited for it's basic version and can be quite costly when you need more than the basic buy now button.

Email me if you have questions:  msinfo@merchantseek.com

Joe

Look at the merchant options under your PayPay account. I think you will find what you need there and avoid working with another software application and opening up a merchant account.