I’ve integrated Nebucart as a commerce solution to enable a bidding sheet at a site for offline auctions, akin to a shopping cart but with the payments switched off. Nebucart is the only system I found that is all client-side, so that it sits “on top of” EE, requiring no back-end integration that might break with updates, etc. Try the bidding sheet yourself at Auction 38 or Auction 39 (bidding will switch off after the auctions, on October 10th and 11th). Please refrain from actually submitting your bidding sheet, but if you accidentally do, it would be kind of you to inform the Archaeological Center that yours was a test bid only and to please ignore.

I’ve also used Nebucart as a regular shopping cart for a new EE-powered site with hundreds of stock items. The site’s not launched yet so if you want to check it out I can PM you the URL.

Nebucart isn’t as slick a package as EE, but it seems to do what it does do well. There are lots of options for shipping and tax, for instance. And the owner was nice and responsive on the tech support forum.

The package is a bunch of Javascript include files, which can either be left in their own directory or else brought within the EE fold as javascript type templates.

I think it’s definitely a good non-Paypal-limiting solution until the fullblown commerce solution is available.

Very interesting. I don’t know that I’d want my entire shopping cart to run client-side though. I think the end users experience would vary. It would take longer to process for some than others. I think I’d prefer more of the processing to take place on a high-end hosting machine that can handle multiple requests easily and consistently. Then again, it’s nice to have another option to fall back on.

Thanks for sharing.

Hi Adam,
  Hey looks like I’m too late to see how you had the nebu cart fuctioning as an Auction/bidding utility?
Is there still a demo page any place.
I’m a long time fan of Pat and the gang over there at nebulus.org.
they used to have some excellent photoshop tutorials and actions, etc.
How did the auction’s work out then?

Just got a request for some sort of auction abilities today, not really sure what they need, worse yet where to find something in this ecommerce area?
Thanks for any suggestions.