Thursday, May 1, 2008

Hostmonster - Agora Shopping Cart

HostMonster offers Agora Shopping Cart

AgoraCart - The powerful "Free" Open Source ecommerce shopping cart software solution that offers a very wide range of "out-of-the-box" features that allow you to setup an online ecommerce solution ranging from a simple template based store to the integration of a complex visual design concept containing all the creative magic of your web designer.

HostMonster has a variety of options for you to choose from Agora Shopping Cart being one of them.

The server requirments are Perl 5.6.x or higher and HostMonster satisfy this requirement.

Agora Shopping Cart Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software with limitless flexibility in many areas including full design controls through Cascading Style Sheets (css), template systems, customizable layouts, custom individual product category layouts and templates, customization of nearly all cart features for the code hobbyist, modular "drop in and go" code as well as AgoraScript, our own scripting language inside parsed HTML pages, that experienced programmers can appreciate.

As with OS commerce this is ready for you to go when you get a HostMonster account. Yet another great reason to choose HostMonster as your hosting company of choice.

AgoraCart can be used by virtually anyone, from a novice and beginner to an experienced web designer or programmer.

With a massive feature list it's no wonder people like to use AgoraCart and HostMonster

Here are just some of the features:

CSS (cascading style sheets) controls over most aspects of the cart design.

Online CSS manager for the store where you can edit the store CSS file as well as for any templates selected.

Store-wide designs stored in main Header and Footer files.

Template system for installable templates.

Ability to design and add your own header and footer templates to the templates directory and/or manually install templates or button sets from 3rd party AgoraCart template providers.

Templates are HTML and regular text files called "includes" (.inc)

Online store template manager where installed buttonsets, templates, or custom templates can be selected.

Edit selected template headers and footers online in the template manager.

Dynamically generated product pages from store's database
Unlimited product options supported (size, color, wrapping, etc).
Volume based pricing awhich llows you to create different price breaks for quantities ordered (called variable options)
Optional simple option file builder available separately for "free".
Deactivate products items so that they do not show up in product displays or searches.
Supports an unlimited number of categories
Supports different display types for products by category
Each product can be related to numerous sub-categories
Product options can be of various types including textareas and textboxes (which allow customer input) and selection lists, radio buttons and checkboxes (which allow customer choices)

Checkout HostMonster and Agora Shopping Cart