Hey hey! Well, after months and months of trying to get CubeCart working on my store, I've given up. It's been nothing but a massive turd - well okay, it's probably and more likely to be the fault of PayPal, which back end features for me at least, have ALWAYS been a gigantic lump of smouldering sticky brown feces.
So, here's my question. Other people BUY web stores and intergrate into their site. I still cannot afford to do this, especially since a lot of them ask for 9.99 a month or whatever.
So does anyone know of any other methods to sell digital downloads online. I really, REALLY need help on this. I HAVE to get a store up and running by the end of this year otherwise *I* will be the gigantic smouldering shit around here. Is there a website that handles it all rather than me having to intergrate it into my own website?
Any links to places that offer digital download merchant tools would be greatly appreciated. Any other suggestions or alternatives are also very welcome.
Thanks
Other than using free packages like ZenCart or osCommerce, and responding manually with their product, I could always develop a store for you. Of course, it would cost you.
They're all going to want to make Payments into my PayPal though surely, and that's where the problem lies.
Everything was set up and correct for my CubeCart one, but something wasn't processing correctly.
How much would you be charging. I cant really afford it, but maybe I'll have to. Like I said, if I don't get this running by the end of this year, it's end-game for all this game-making stuff for me.
PS, currently checking out "payloadz.com" which may be just what I'm looking for....hmmmmm a nmmmmm
How about this? http://www.bradsucks.net/projects/bsdds/
Web development services are rarely affordable by the average non-business-owner. I'd charge somewhere around $1,000.
I could host an adventure game conference for that kind of money ::)
Thanks for the link tho, goes into my "maybe" list - Im not familiar with Amazon S3, and the less I have to install, the better. I'll look into it after payloadz undoubtedly fails or asks for $50 sign up.
Quote from: Mods on Tue 25/08/2009 17:19:00
So, here's my question. Other people BUY web stores and intergrate into their site. I still cannot afford to do this, especially since a lot of them ask for 9.99 a month or whatever.
Sorry for the kinda off topic, but if you can't afford 10 quid a month to setup a store, how much do you expect to make out of it? 11?
And I'm not kidding, although the number 11 is stupid. 10 quid a month is rubbish as an amount. You spend 10 times that money for beer (not you personally, but people), so it's not really that much to setup a store...
I pay $10 a month for web hosting, and that's an insanely awesome deal considering I get unlimited space and bandwidth (so far so good, and I've been using the hell out of both).
But yeah, web developers make big money... hence my lack of work lately. LOL
Meh, let's not make this a discussion about finances. Let's preferably just accept I don't have them. Like I said, I'm still trying out payloadz, maybe it is the right thing. I don't understand why there aren't any services that can offer this with totally free setup and just rinse you a dollar from every sale. Big gap in the market if you ask me.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/bigcartel-create-online-store-free/
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/fatfreecart/
found these
also, as an aside, Brad Sucks is some awesome music, check it out
You didn't say, but I assume you're selling games (which narrows your choices, because many digital content delivery solutions are tailored for ebooks or music downloads). You might want to look into remotely hosted web stores. They're less customisable, but you can totally avoid the hassle of setting up a web store yourself.
If you're looking at hosted ecommerce solutions, http://www.shareit.com seems to be what you're looking for, especially the flexi option. Their catalog includes lots of games: http://www.shareit.com/catalog.html?category=41 (although few in the Adventure Games category seem to be actual adventure games).
People have also used Lulu.com to sell their games: http://www.lulu.com/category/software/games_entertainment/660
Brillz, thanks guys! It seems Payloadz is pretty much what I was looking for! Auriond, this one is remotely hosted but luckily they allow all types of files.
http://store.payloadz.com/details/detail_586551.html
It also creates a buy now button HTML code for me to put on my own website - so this has eradicated the need for me to "build my own store". Regretably, the store I had with Cubecart was lush - but until I've got some money, Payloadz seems to be the best free solution.
Thanks for all the alternative links too - I'm sure I'll need to fall back on them in the future when payloadz goes tits up or something :p
Alternatively, you could look for some free scripts that do what you want to do (offer automated digital downloads by the sounds of it) and tweak them. Kind of what I did with TinyTool a few years ago.