I have a complex order form I have designed using formspring for customers to purchase custom built radiator covers. It works great for what I need it to do and formspring makes creating and editing the form extremely simple. I am looking for a shopping cart solution which will allow me to input the created items information using a url redirect. The price of the product is the most important, but I would also like to have a description formed using the information in the form as well, mainly for the customers reassurance. I have the forms ready to go, but can only have one order per transaction through paypal without a shopping cart to manage the items the way it's currently working. I also need all of the normal funtionality of most shopping carts available such as, a stored customer database, the ability to give retailers a percentage off their total as well as a line of credit, be able to run coupon promotions and also provide multiple fixed price items on top of the custom order ones. I have been searching high and low, reading up on a multitude of shopping cart programs and have not been able to find a solution for importing the form info to the cart to form a customized product. The order form has a lot of dependencies that ultimately form a figure which is multiplied by the sum of the products given dimensions.... with other values added for different options. A little too complex for any of the carts built-in ordering options I would imagine.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

If you want all the nick-nacks that a full shopping cart system offers it would make sense to use it to generate your product order forms as well. If the price of a product is dictated from a number of parameters (ie width/height/depth/material etc) then any decent shipping cart system will be able to handle this - it does take some thinking about how to set it up but it can be done!

If I was to build a shop for your type of products my first stop would be www.jshop.co.uk because it offers lots of ways of conficuring products. It might be worth looking at

Originally Posted by blue-dreamer

If you want all the nick-nacks that a full shopping cart system offers it would make sense to use it to generate your product order forms as well. If the price of a product is dictated from a number of parameters (ie width/height/depth/material etc) then any decent shipping cart system will be able to handle this - it does take some thinking about how to set it up but it can be done!

If I was to build a shop for your type of products my first stop would be www.jshop.co.uk because it offers lots of ways of conficuring products. It might be worth looking at

Thanks blue-dreamer, for the reply. I think my main concern about trying to incorporate all of the parameters into a single shopping cart item will be too complicated for customers to use. The way I have the forms set up is that when one particular option is chosen, customers are taken to another page where more choices can be made resulting from their previous choices. There are also choices such as trim options, where some effect the price and others don't.

I am taking a look at jshop. It looks like a very full featured program, but I wonder if there are issues using it on a us server....... I like the affiliate options it has!