Setting up an online store

[tc101]

I volunteered to help set up an online store for a local Tibetan group.

I am a retired programmer, but I definitely don't want to try to program a store from scratch. I want an online solution that you just pay for that requires no programming and could be managed by any reasonably intelligent, computer literate person.

I have no idea how to start researching this. There are so many of these services out there. Yahoo has a pretty good one. PcMag recommended ProStores which is a fancy front end for ebay.

This is the Tibetan's current store, which they don't like:

http://www.tibetantraditions.com/

It seems pretty primitive to me, but it will give you an idea of the type products they are selling. They want a shopping cart that offers member discounts.

Any suggestions on a good service to handle this?

[aeiah]

have a look at zencart. its FOSS

[Blue Heron]

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[Catharina]

Or Joomla (http://www.joomla.org/) with Virtue Mart (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,129/Itemid,35/)

We use that on one of our websites and it works good.

[tc101]

Thanks for your help, but zencart and Joomla both require me to install something on a server. I want a turnkey solution where everything is already set up and running, like with the yahoo stores, and I just pay a monthly fee.

I might enjoy setting up something myself, but this has to be easy to use and modify by whoever is volunteering there a year after I am gone.

[SuperSon!c]

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:rolleyes: