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mlsalters77 · December 23rd, 2008

hello all,
after reading the post on pikiware I checked the site out and "WOW!" its really a cool service. I am thinking of hopping on and building a site. my issue is that I am not really interested in the fulfillment aspect of it. I do however like the other services offered so my plans are to use it to create my online store to sell my shirts and use pikiwares administrative services to manage my product orders. my question is are there any other sites that offer this type of service but are not geared to being an oline store without the fulfillment?

thanks all

zhenjie · December 23rd, 2008

So you just want to sell your own designs? It sounds like you are better off using a free opensource shopping cart system like OsCommerce,Zencart, Magento or Cubecart.

mlsalters77 · January 5th, 2009

thanks for the direction i will check into those. sorry for the late reply just got back from vacation.

thanks

lindsayanng · January 5th, 2009

What type of FUNCTIONS made you want to use pikiware? If you can list your NEEDS, i can probably help you find the right, free open source cart.

they each have different things available to them, but isnce they are open source, they ALL have the ability to be whatever you want them to, but you need to know how to code or hire a coder to do it for you.

i love oscommerce, but zen cart has more administrative options pre intsalled, where as oscomemrce you have more options to install your own administration options and functions..

Give a list of the requirements you have for a good website, and i can come up with links to show you how to make those things work for opensource

nateslate · January 5th, 2009

If your not good at web design I would recommend Big Cartel. It's really easy to set up a shop and depending on how many items your selling it's also free.

mlsalters77 · January 7th, 2009

hi,
well, what i liked about Piki was that so much of the admin support was included as far as customers placing orders and them being tracked, even taxsation (wow dont think i spelled that right.lol) was handled. plus, i dig the fact of how much freedom i have to make the sight look like i want. I read a post here from a chick (ut-oh) who had started a line some how based on this old madona movie. i think she used piki as well and her site is pretty good. if i can find the link i will post it. but at any rate, the ability to use say, Golive or Dreamweaver to hook up the site is very important becaue i want to be able have a look that fits into what I'm doing but more importantly i need the administrative options because I am working in iraq so the less stress to contendwith the better

thank you

skreenbuddy · January 7th, 2009

If you're looking to at get some "free" traffic out of the deal as well and aren't feeling you need your own specific url, I would suggest http://www.etsy.com , http://www.ecrater.com or http://www.bonanzle.com

Etsy being the largest and most established at 650,000 members and I've seen many tees go for well over $30 if the design is right. Traffic to the other sites is fairly low, but with a ton of people fleeing ebay in droves, you will see many more smaller marketplaces swooping in to fill the needs that are no longer being met by the current industry leader.

Aaron

Jamey · January 8th, 2009

Pikiwear is now DecoNetwork.

What I like about it is the affiliates system, and the onsite designer. Looks pretty slick.

lindsayanng · January 8th, 2009

ALL shopping cart systems have the ADMIN capability. With oscommerce specifically, you get the basics - order tracking, order updates, automatic emails to your customers when you update their orders from received, to printed, to shipped. You can track which customers visited which pages of your site. You can ask your customers to sign up for your newsletter which you can then handle whichever way you want (from oscommerce or third party newsletter like constantcontact) You can also set up zones for taxes - with this, you will ONLY want to charge tax to people who live in your state, you CAN do this from the stock install..

THEN, you can ADD additional admin options. You and set up coupons codes with expiration dates, gift certificates, links manager how your products list (grid mode or list mode), you and set up order in which all different types of info displays, you can choose what information you want to REQUIRE fo ryour customers to sign up and what you want ot just put there but NOT make it required.

THERE IS SOO MUCH.. you should go to the osc demo store.. If you want i can post a screen shot of my admin which is VERY modified, but ALL with pre-coded addons)

Also, you can not change ANY php website with DREAMWEAVER or any other HTML editor. HOWEVER, ocommerce has an addon called STS (simple template system) which allows you to set up the LOOK in dreamweaver and apply that to your php website. I know that is not available on Zen Cart, but then again, zen cart has lots of pre made decent looking templates.

Prinsz · January 8th, 2009

Hi I am looking for the online design function. Do any of you where i can find this free or cheap. Pikiware and others look great but costs a lot of money. At pikiware they want anual money and money for each transaction. My webdesigner can make the site for me but the online design part is pretty difficult. So I was wondering if you guys/girls know if there is any free software for this part.

Thanx in advance.
Greetings from Holland

lindsayanng · January 8th, 2009

You want a flash type t-shirt designer?? if thats it, you can search this forum and you will find all sorts of info.

Prinsz · January 8th, 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by lindsayanng


	You want a flash type t-shirt designer?? if thats it, you can search this forum and you will find all sorts of info.

Dear Lindsayanng,
Forgive me if I get you wrong, English is not my first language.
But to design my own shirts and for customers we use adobe but what I need is an onsite design function build in my website. So that customers can design their shirts themselves online. Is that what you mean by flash type tee designer? And if yes do you know a thread.
Thanks again

Prinsz · January 8th, 2009

something like speadshirt or rsk does but they are pretty expensive.
Maybe expertlogo is cheaper I am gone find out tomorrow.
But my webdesigner will build my site, he just needs to build in the tool to design the shirt in.

lindsayanng · January 8th, 2009

if you have a designer who can build the tool, then why are you looking for other ones? I am confused..

The point is though, you get what you pay for.. Some of those that are cheap, are not the best.. they can cause a LOT of heachaches, AND you have to make sure it integrates to your shopping cart.. USUALLY you cant just install a designer and expect it to work with your cart.

Prinsz · January 8th, 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by lindsayanng


	if you have a designer who can build the tool, then why are you looking for other ones? I am confused.. The point is though, you get what you pay for.. Some of those that are cheap, are not the best.. they can cause a LOT of heachaches, AND you have to make sure it integrates to your shopping cart.. USUALLY you cant just install a designer and expect it to work with your cart.

He is just making my website but is having problems with building the tool to design onsite.
Thanks again for your reply

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