Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Yahoo Store vs. OpenACS Ecommerce?

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Posted by Matthew Geddert on
Yahoo Store will be WAY easier than doing it yourself with the openacs ecommerce package, plus you would also need to pay for a credit card processing service with openacs ecommmerce which costs a portion of your sales, plus hosting, and all the time and hassel of maintaing it. Last time i checked it out yahoo store did not give you an ssh'able account. If your friend is a baker why would they want to complicated their lives with software development and maintenance? OpenACS Ecommerce is more flexible but most people don't need this flexibility for smaller services.
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Posted by Andrew Piskorski on
Using OpenACS Ecommerce may not be a practical option for that one user, but I'd still like to understand trade-offs in general between using it and hosted apps like Yahoo Store.