Template and backend integration

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Has anyone used templates from www.templatemonster.com before? I need to find out how easy it is to buy a template and then connect up an ecommerce package to the template. Has anyone done this? If so, what ecommerce package did you use? So many options my head is spinning:sen:

Would appreciate any feedback on this…thanks superG

2

Let me try and be a bit more specific…I have been looking into oscommerce as an ecommerce solution, but am not sure if oscommerce is compatible with a WorldPay gateway. has any one faced this particular issue yet and what did you do?

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Just to warn you ahead of time that osCommerce is a pain to customize. It doesn’t have a template system like you think it would.

I am looking at the admin section of one right now and this is what is shows as payment modules:

Authorize.net
Credit Card
Cash on Delivery
iPayment
Check/Money Order
NOCHEX
PayPal 0
2CheckOut
PSiGate
SECPay

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Yeah i know, cant seem to find anything else with as good a layout…do you know of any?

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There are lots out there.

http://www.xt-commerce.com/ (although it is written mostly in german - it’s a templated branch of osCommerce)

http://cpcommerce.org/

http://www.icdevgroup.org/ – this one looked really nice, imo nicer than most of the free carts, but it is written in perl, so if you don’t mind running a cgi cart this one might be a good option. Don’t know about the supported payment plans, haven’t looked at it that much.

I have not installed any of these, but they seemed the best of the free carts, next to osCommerce. If osCommerce would do a complete rebuild and integrate a template it would still be great, but it’s kind of falling behind, imo.