Freeware Shopping Cart software needed

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I am going to start a oline record store shortly I need some decent shopping
cart software which do you guys reccommond. Right now I do not have $300 or
to throw down on software just money to get the site up and running.
 
DJboutit said:
I am going to start a oline record store shortly I need some decent shopping
cart software which do you guys reccommond. Right now I do not have $300 or
to throw down on software just money to get the site up and running.
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Program: mals eCommerce
Author: Mal's e-commerce Limited
Ware: (Liteware)
http://www.mals-e.com/

Susan
 
I am going to start a oline record store shortly I need
some decent shopping cart software which do you guys
reccommond. Right now I do not have $300 or to throw down
on software just money to get the site up and running.
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Your hosting provider should have several carts installed, if
that is the case then you may be better off with one of
these, but if not, then you may want to look at one of the
following:

Agora: http://www.agoracart.com/
Zen-Cart: http://www.zen-cart.com
osCommerece: http://www.oscommerce.com/

By far the most sophisticated of these is osC, but if you
arae looking for something quick and basic then the others
may be a better choice..

Good luck,
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Is that different to crippleware ?
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Yes - see ACF's Ware Glossary:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/WareGlossary.php

<q>
Liteware: free version of a commercial program. A useful program that is
more limited in features and functionality than the commercial product.
Liteware is not time-limited.

Crippleware: free version of a commercial program. More limited in
features and functionality than the commercial product. Crippleware has
severe limitations. Functionality that is important to the average user
has been disabled.
</q>

Susan
 
John said:
IMO "yes". Liteware may have less functions than another version. But
everything works. With crippleware it is common to see menu options
etc. greyed out.
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On a similar note: I plan to release an app soon which I want to call
"free" for casual use but "paid" for regular use. For "casual" use,
any settings in the app can not be saved at exit. Would this then be
acceptable to publish here when released? My rational is that anyone
who just wants to enjoy its functionality on a casual basis would have
no need to save the settings, so they get to use it for free with no
payments or crippled options at all. Anyone who wants to use it on a
daily basis would therefore be more inclined to pay to be able to save
their settings to avoid setting them with each startup. Opinions?
 
( said:
IMO "yes". Liteware may have less functions than another version. But
everything works. With crippleware it is common to see menu options
etc. greyed out.
Click to expand...

On a similar note: I plan to release an app soon which I want to call
"free" for casual use but "paid" for regular use. For "casual" use,
any settings in the app can not be saved at exit. Would this then be
acceptable to publish here when released? My rational is that anyone
who just wants to enjoy its functionality on a casual basis would have
no need to save the settings, so they get to use it for free with no
payments or crippled options at all. Anyone who wants to use it on a
daily basis would therefore be more inclined to pay to be able to save
their settings to avoid setting them with each startup. Opinions?
[/QUOTE]

That's crippleware, not freeware.
 
Mouse said:
On a similar note: I plan to release an app soon which I want to call
"free" for casual use but "paid" for regular use. For "casual" use,
any settings in the app can not be saved at exit. Would this then be
acceptable to publish here when released? My rational is that anyone
who just wants to enjoy its functionality on a casual basis would have
no need to save the settings, so they get to use it for free with no
payments or crippled options at all. Anyone who wants to use it on a
daily basis would therefore be more inclined to pay to be able to save
their settings to avoid setting them with each startup. Opinions?
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I would say it would depend on the proggy.
If it was something that there are already miriad of others out there that
*can* save settings, and are freeware then you would be wasting your time
by posting here. why not over on a shareware/crippleware group.
 
This is Susan Bugher for forever:
Yes - see ACF's Ware Glossary:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/WareGlossary.php

<q>
Liteware: free version of a commercial program. A useful program that is
more limited in features and functionality than the commercial product.
Liteware is not time-limited.

Crippleware: free version of a commercial program. More limited in
features and functionality than the commercial product. Crippleware has
severe limitations. Functionality that is important to the average user
has been disabled.
</q>
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So, if a CAD program limits the drawing size, to say 8"x10" (e.g. EAGLE
Lite from CadSoft), is it considered liteware or crippleware?

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Chaos said:
This is Susan Bugher for forever:



So, if a CAD program limits the drawing size, to say 8"x10" (e.g. EAGLE
Lite from CadSoft), is it considered liteware or crippleware?
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If the commercial version can do a bigger drawing size then yes, the
free version is either Liteware or Crippleware.

Susan
 
Gert said:
That's crippleware, not freeware.
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How can it be crippleware if the free status applies only to casual
use? A person accepting a "free for casual use" license would have
no need to save any prefs.
 
Mouse said:
How can it be crippleware if the free status applies only to casual
use? A person accepting a "free for casual use" license would have
no need to save any prefs.
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'Crippleware: free version of a commercial program. More limited in
features and functionality than the commercial product. Crippleware has
severe limitations. Functionality that is important to the average user
has been disabled.'

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/WareGlossary.php

'Free for casual use', with the restriction you describe, says
'crippleware' to me.
It is as much true freeware as is a feature limited demo.
 
( said:
That's crippleware, not freeware.
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How can it be crippleware if the free status applies only to casual
use? A person accepting a "free for casual use" license would have
no need to save any prefs.
[/QUOTE]

If you accept to use crippleware it doesn't mean it isn't
crippleware. If you would allow to save preferences and allow for
home usage and not for business use it's another story.
 
Program: mals eCommerce
Author: Mal's e-commerce Limited
Ware: (Liteware)
http://www.mals-e.com/
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Actually, you'd have to call this "webware" as it's a service, rather
than anything you can actually run.

The Software component is any web design package that can format the
links / buttons / forms appropriately - something that can do database
to HTML would be ideal.
 
jo said:
'Crippleware: free version of a commercial program. More limited in
features and functionality than the commercial product. Crippleware
has severe limitations. Functionality that is important to the
average user has been disabled.'
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Taking the definition above, there are no such limited features or
functionality. The app is completely the same for both casual user
and daily user -- both users can do the same things, forever. The
only difference is that the casual user might have to reset some
prefs, every time he runs the app, if he doesn't like the default ones.
If he DOES like the default settings, then this again proves that the
app is NOT crippleware -- and is free for his enjoyment forever. So
what's the big deal?
 
Mouse said:
Taking the definition above, there are no such limited features or
functionality. The app is completely the same for both casual user
and daily user -- both users can do the same things, forever. The
only difference is that the casual user might have to reset some
prefs, every time he runs the app, if he doesn't like the default ones.
If he DOES like the default settings, then this again proves that the
app is NOT crippleware -- and is free for his enjoyment forever. So
what's the big deal?
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To me, the "big deal" is that if I want to save my settings, I have to pay
you for permission/the right to do so.
No Thanks.
 
Mouse said:
Taking the definition above, there are no such limited features or
functionality. The app is completely the same for both casual
user and daily user -- both users can do the same things, forever.
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Not all the same things -- you said the user of the free version
won't be able to save prefs, whereas the ability to save prefs will
be a feature of the payware version.
The only difference is that the casual user might have to reset
some prefs, every time he runs the app, if he doesn't like the
default ones. If he DOES like the default settings, then this
again proves that the app is NOT crippleware
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The fact that not every user would need the feature doesn't make it
a non-feature. IMO, the crippling doesn't have to be severe for the
offering to be crippleware. But also IMO, the average user wants to
save prefs for pretty much every app.
-- and is free for his enjoyment forever. So what's the big deal?
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It's not a big deal. There's lots of commercial software with
crippled free versions. The crippleware versions are often
recommended here. If what you want is for nobody to call it
crippleware, though, I reckon the only way would be to release it as
freeware with all features intact.
 
Mouse said:
Taking the definition above, there are no such limited features or
functionality.
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Er. There are. Because you want them to be there.

I have no problem with this. I get a bit confused when a software author
tells me that a ware type is something that it is not, however.
 
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