BV and cube cart together

[km5tq]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Hi Susan,
I'm still alive, so you're safe...lol I've bugged them to death.
I agree with you about this being a great forum. I've only been a member about 3 or 4 weeks. I've learned a lot in that time.
Susan, have you tried the Chat Forum? You can just chit chat about anything in that one. The KM5TQ is my ham radio call sign. My real name is Glenna. I use my middle name for the name of my website.
Welllll, my Mother thought I was a Jewel...lol
Keep on plugging along,,,we'll get there at some point.

[Jollytinker]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Ok, I'm back. Couldn't get in here much yesterday at all. Hi KM, ( do you have a real name ?)sounds like we're both on the same track. My train however, sometimes gets derailed, but I'm getting it too. ( I think). Yup, these guys in here have been great to me. We're so lucky to have this forum and people who actually know what they're talking about. I really like BV too and love the looks I'm getting in it. I started playing with cart manager yesterday, but hubby home this weekend, so I'm getting nothing done. Boys!!! humphhh!!

Anyway, it really takes alot of reading and research to figure it all out. Just like Bethers said, I don't want to do it and then have to re-do it. I want to do it right the first time. I really expected her to ready through my puter and smack me the other day. Hay, I'm blond, it takes a little longer for us.

Ok, going back to work on cm now, Thanks KM for your good luck. Same to you. We can work our little pea brains off together.

Susan
www.thejollytinker.com

[km5tq]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Whew! Thank goodness I didn't process any orders...lol

[Bethers]

Re: BV and cube cart together

CM will be live if you added code to it to the page and went into preview. However, the only way you'd have a problem is if you placed an order and went all the way through - after attaching your cc processor (or paypal) - cuz the order would go through :)

[km5tq]

Re: BV and cube cart together

I've been playing around with the CM today, and so far so good. I created a test page, put in a seperate folder to save it. I have tested various settings and view them in preview. Since I have not published the test page, I should have nothing to worry about..right?!?

[Karen Mac]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Well.. if she sets authorize.net to test.. she could use it all the way thru. Just remember to go back and set autho to live when shes done.

Karen

[Bethers]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Susan,
You are doing the right thing - figuring out what is best for you and doing the planning before you build and have to restart over and over. However, you might want to build and play with BV and CM - so you see how it works for you. Have fun with it - just don't put through a real order, LOL - as the 2 week trial of CM is LIVE.

[km5tq]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Hey, Susan,
Beth and Karen give great advice. I've bugged them to death trying to get the cart sytem straight in my pea size brain.
By jove, I think I've got it..lol
I have stopped working on building my site at this point. I have a partially finished index page, but will work on it after I decide which cart to go with. For me, I want a cart that will let me build my site in BV. I like the freedom of creation and the fact the page is a what you see is what you get. I'm also trying the cartmanager demo. I will also check out the generic ecommerce cart for Dreamweaver. I'm judging on what is cost effective for me at this time. I'm on a limited budget, so have to base my decision on cost and what will work in my case.
I feel like I should earn a degree in all this by the time I'm ready to launch my site..lol

Good luck, Susan.

[Jollytinker]

Re: BV and cube cart together

I sure do, so, just smack me when I need it. I'm tough. I'll get it all together, hope I don't forget where I put it when I do. :0)
Have a great night and weekend you guys.
Stay safe !
Thanks again,,,

Susan

[Bethers]

Re: BV and cube cart together

And keep asking till you get it - cuz it doesn't do you any good if you don't understand ;) - just take us with a grain of salt when we hold your hand and get testy - you know we mean well.

[Karen Mac]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Its NOT hard.. just different, just different things to learn.

Karen

[Jollytinker]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Ok, thanks Karen,
Checking out CartManager right now. Soaking this all in. Want to get away from high fees on sol, but didn't know it would be this hard. You guys are a great help though. All this reading and help from you guys, is finally getting in.

Thanks again and have a great day !

Susan

[Karen Mac]

Re: BV and cube cart together

No.. you dont build your store there either. You build your store on bv, then you use that cartmanager codes to LINK to your cc processor, only thing there are your codes and product info so they can process the order and collect the money.

Karen

[Jollytinker]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Ohhhhhh !!!! Ok, that makes it clearer.. Now, I get it. Sorry Beth, I know we went over it, but now, I think you've explained it a little clearer for my little blond head.. It's starting to sink in. Just did the demo of cart manager from your link, didn't get to that until now, so I'll play with that. I can just build my store there right ?
You've been great Bethers I don't mean to ask the same thing over and over, but I just wasn't getting it. Maybe God gave you a bigger brain than me. :0)... but, I'm getting there.
Have a wonderful day.
Susan

[Bethers]

Re: BV and cube cart together

Susan,
We've gone over this extensively in your other forum - but what you need to decide - is how you want to build and what will work best for you.

IF you want a store that works similar to what you have, with the database driven shopping cart, then you need to use a ecommerce website builder - like Soho, OSCommerce, Zen, etc- and THAT's where you build the entire site- just like you're doing now.

IF you are comfortable and like BV and being able to have more freedom, and can do what you want with an add-on shopping cart - then, yes, you can use BV. But I can't answer that for you. I can tell you that I use BV and CartManager and LOVE it. But I can't say you will love it. I can tell you in the other forum, I've given about 15-20 former stores who have moved doing the same way I am - so you can look and see lots of them.

But don't spend a lot of time building in BV if you're going to decide you want the type of cart you used before - cuz BV is a WEBSITE builder - than you can ADD a shopping cart to - but it is not a standalone ecommerce builder (like Soho, et all) are.