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I’ve no experience of either as yet. Just wondered if anyone has any thoughts on either approach (or another one) that they’d like to share.

As an EE user I’m drawn to FoxEE but FoxyCart looks a bit slight on UK oriented payment gateways.

I’ve read great things about TradingEye—I think Andy Clarke of Stuff and Nonsense had a hand in it. It also has the advantage of compatibility with my prospect’s preferred new payment gateway, Secure Trading. Has anybody here used TradingEye?

When is TradingEye releasing V.6?  I remember reading through their forums about six months ago and they were touting the new version soon.

I ended up using Roman Cart instead of FoxyCart because of the lack of UK payment Gateways - they have since added UK Paypal but my client needs Worldpay.

Trading eye looks like a full CMS not just a cart. The advantage of just a cart option is that you can integrate it into any site design whereas the ‘out of the box shop’ normally restrict you ability to design or make it very difficult to edit the templates to get the site how you wish.

For artscapeonline.com and santaballs.co.uk I implemented Roman cart directly into my EE templates - it was dead easy.

Thanks, Simon. I’ll have a look at Roman Cart.

I would also suggest adding your voice to the UK users in Foxy Cart to try and get more UK gateways - they have a very neat system for voting on what to do next and which gateways people want.

I see FoxyCart have posted an article today on all the various bits you need to stitch together for e-commerce. website, cart ,gateway, merchant-account, bank-account. Many people don’t realise that you need all these bits and the banks don’t make it easy to understand!

Thanks, Simon. Both very useful. I’ve added my voice to 3 gateways.

I usually use Mal’s E-Commerce (http://www.mals-e.com) and it has a number of International gateways. There’s a free option and a for-pay option. It’s a lot like RomanCart, but i like it better (and i’ve been using it FOREVER).

Hi all. Fwiw, we’re right now in the process of adding Realex support, which will provide another option for UK users (in addition to PayPal WPP UK, PayPoint Gateway, and CyberSource). If you want a specific gateway we always appreciate a heads up (especially from the EE community, since EE sites tend to be really consistently beautiful) 😉

Hi Foxycart,

Thanks for that. My client is keen to use Secure Trading.

Thanks Also, Adrienne. Mal’s looks really interesting too.

Hey FoxyCart - what about Google Checkout? Do you support that?

For the record, I’m going to go with Magento for the site I have in mind. The key things that have swayed me are, in order of importance:

1. Stock and inventory control built in
2. Good choice of UK payment gateways
3. OpenSource (free)
4. The promise of EE integration real soon (see last comment)!

Thanks to all those who have contributed here.

Sorry for dragging this thread back up, but I’m in a similar situation. I was banking on using FoxyCart with EE but hadn’t realised that they have no support for debit cards. The payment gateways available are fine, but being a UK-based client it’s not going be acceptable to refuse debit cards. This is going to be a huge problem and I’m starting to think I will need to find an alternative. How have you (or anyone else?) found the Magento templating system? Having looked through the code that’s producing the default template my initial impressions are that it looks extremely awkward compared to the likes of EE and, since I’m on a fairly tight deadline, that’s the last thing I need.

I’m surprised that there appear to be very few flexible, standards-based options out there. And slightly concerned that I might have to say goodbye to sleep for the next few weeks.

Having looked through the code that’s producing the default template my initial impressions are that it looks extremely awkward compared to the likes of EE and, since I’m on a fairly tight deadline, that’s the last thing I need.

Very true.  Templating Magento is a whole different approach.

I’m surprised that there appear to be very few flexible, standards-based options out there. And slightly concerned that I might have to say goodbye to sleep for the next few weeks.

Join the crowd.  There are no options to ecommerce as EE is to content.  A quick way to use EE for everything other than the checkout process is to use CCP’s remote API option.  It allows standard forms, managed in EE, to submit orders to the cart.

Thanks for the link Stephen, I will check that out. On a similar note, is anyone aware of any good ‘bolt on’ cart applications out there? Ultimately I want to use EE to manage products, unless there’s something fantastic out there that I’ve overlooked, but most applications do seem to try and do it all rather than focussing solely on the cart and payment elements.

For the time being I’m just crossing everything and hoping that Foxycart will let me know that debit card support is coming soon, as nothing else seems to come close to doing what I want. Well, crossing everything and frantically clicking through every shopping cart sales site on the net, to be more accurate.