I have a client who needs an online store. Their old programmer coded the store in .NET and then bailed out. And they gave me the OK to use Coldfusion.
I know HMS has MIVA but i don't want to use it. Their product database is 100,000+ so i need something that will handle that.

Does anyone recommend a good prebuilt ecommerce solution. The code MUST be unencrypted so we can add/modify it to suite our needs.

I have been looking at CFWebstore http://www.cfwebstore.com It seems very functional and has a lot of features, and the code is opensource so it can be modified. ($300 per store though ) It doesn't have to be free either. We want whatever will be reliable.

One more thing regarding dedicated servers.. Does HMS have Coldfusion on Dedicated servers? or do they require you have a license for CF?

Any help would be appreciated.

You may also want to look at QuickEStore - it has tons of features and costs significantly less, at just $99. Disclaimer - yes, I am the author!. http://www.quickestore.com

QuickEStore has price and weight based shipping, as well as UPS shipping. It has sales tax calculations and product thumbnails and images. It has categories, subcategories, site search, sales reports, reorder reports, and storefront wizards and templates. It also comes with built-in integration with PayPal, VeriSign, SkipJack, and AuthorizeNet. Or, just manually settle orders. Easy to setup and use. And HostMySite is the perfect hosting environment for QuickEStore. I have about thirty happy customers hosting here.

I'm not a dedicated client. but I do know that they offer licenses for 89 dollars a month (kind of pricey), or you can buy your own, and they'll install it.

Speaking of dedicateds, HMS is running a very nice promo for Dedicateds (30% off) on a webhosting news site, but unfortunately, I can't say where, or Jean will be mad at me .

Ouch -- thanks for the slight pang of guilt

Have a look at Admin Pro Tools. The Ecom does it all!

http://www.adminprotools.com/detail/index.cfm?nPID=18&cid=3&cdesc=Business%20Applications

Hi Jason,

I have been using Cartweaver. It is a solid base and will come with the great new features soon. If you need help just let me know.

Regards

Tunc
From sunny UK

One option if you plan to go dedicated is to use BlueDragon instead of ColdFusion. If you don't need any of the CF7 features like flash forms, BD is a great option and cheaper to run your own copy. I've coded my software to run on BD and my customers that are using it really praise how fast it runs in comparison! I really like working with the folks at New Atlanta as well (authors of BlueDragon). They just seem a lot more accessible and knowledgable in general than trying to get help from Adobe. The new BlueDragon release coming up has some really great features as well...ones that can be particularly useful for ecommerce. For instance, the ability to spawn new threads during a request. Need to get multiple shipping rates from UPS or Fedex? You can spawn separate threads to get rates for each package and then combine them into a total and output the page. Major time saver and something you can't do in ColdFusion (not yet at least!) It's a really solid product and a true competitor to CF that is really worth taking a look at. MySpace runs on their .NET version so it definitely can handle some traffic!

>>I've coded my software to run on BD

Can you give us newbies any little tips on gotchas to be watched for in this regard? I thought all the basic stuff works the same.

Thanks.

It's definitely much easier to get code working on BD than it has in the past. Generally any CFMX6 application should work without too much difficulty. I found 2 things that were issues on BlueDragon. First, it was much more particular about nested custom tags. You had to be sure to close any otherwise unclosed cfmodules that were inside others....which is of course good coding practice anyway. It's just something that ColdFusion handles more gracefully.

The other area was javascript code. BlueDragon has much more aggressive whitespace handling. It caused everything to get completely wrapped...which can be a problem for any javascript code embedded in your pages. So I had to wrap cfprocessingdirectives around these to prevent them from getting wrapped by the whitespace handing. Not sure if this has been corrected, but I did report it to them as an issue.