OsCommerce galore

While I am not that a favorite of osCommerce, it does it’s work well enough rite? with multi plugins and addons, cart controls, there are always afew ways to manually tweak the system.
Like those guys at The osCommerce Cafe, whom I do at times buy their own templates for my customers. Compared to paying just under $100 quarterly is darn cheaper than to flip thru a catalog of templates , of each costing more than $200 a pop is more than what in my books CHEAP DEAL.

And since the The osCommerce Cafe is operated by the author, Myles O’Reily *(I dunno if he is related to the O’reily books), The (for the Idiotic) Programmers Guide to OSCOMMERCE, then they have the authority to say and dictate of what is to be said , issn’t it not?

I took a lead to add on similar to what they have done to my friend’s WebShop selling sweets and more in KL, and I was a real pain when customising the site.So I just take the core to the Content Management System, and edit this…. cut that… plug that service in…and hey… I got MoneyBookers to work!

What I really hate about those carts is the inflexibility to work with currency exchanges and when it goes to PAYPAL, the system don’t wanna accept it. So like I gotta install and comission an API to call XE.COM UCC CGI to convert Malaysia Ringgit to US Dollars. So it’s just a median of RM3.48 to a US Dollar, but if with the reverse is being done, we have to take thru One US Dollar to 4 Ringgits.
So that is a predicament.

And the local system, like in Singapore uses NETS and Malaysians love their MayBank2U …so we have to tolerate all these movements and all.

And so..I learn it’s not as easy to up and running a Cart..so I buy them off the shelf.