Hi,

I’m researching e-commerce software options for a client.  My preference would be for one that can integrate with a separate CMS and AbanteCart (with its Embed code functionality & API) caught my eye.

I’d be very grateful if someone could confirm a few things for me.

Listing All Products on CMS based website
- am I correct in thinking that to list all products I’d need to retrieve a list of all the product IDs, using the API, and then dynamically generate the embed code for each one?

Embedding the Shopping Cart
- this seems to be embedded as a link, so does it only appear as a modal (rather than embedded within a page)?

Disable AbanteCart shopfront
- if I’m not going to use the shopfront, would it be sensible/possible to disable public access to it?

Out of the box functionality
- PayPal payment: a free extension?
- shipping charges based on postcode: a paid-for extension?
- collect customer emails and run a mailing list: I think this is “yes”?

PHP requirements
- I see that AbanteCart requires "magic_quotes_gpc” to be switched off but if the server has it switched on by default would there be a problem (or could it be ini_set() off)?

Import/Export
- I generally develop website on a local machine, is there a procedure for exporting/importing the AbanteCart database from local to online host?

Thanks.


BTW, your forum footer is living in the past: "AbanteCart.com 2011 - 2015”!