Shopping cart question

[suz]

Hi everyone I have a client who needs a shopping cart. He sells computer systems. The problem is that with each system he offers upgrades. For example the customer could choose a bigger hard drive or monitor or something. So then the price would need to be updated to show the new total and also let him know what the customer ordered.
I hope this makes sense.
Can normal shopping carts do this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ian]

Not sure if there is something off the shelf available to suit your needs, I have seen quite a few good oscommerce sites, including cptnwinky's old lightaudio site which I believe Chroder did.
I would probably keep things simple and use a normal shopping cart, most of which just have a "continue shopping" button which allows the user to go back and add new items to their shopping cart. A good example of a computer tech type site which uses oscommerce can be found here
http://www.oscommerce.com/shops/goto,7239

[suz]

Thank you Ian, I'm just looking into a plugin for oscommerce that looks hopeful.

[StephanieCordray]

I used to swear by oscommerce but lately have been converted to zen cart. It's really just a scaled down version of oscommerce but so easy to configure and just as powerful. The clients seem to like it very much. It will do what you need.

http://www.zen-cart.com/modules/frontpage/

[suz]

Thank Stephanie, I'll take a look at that one as well.

[suz]

Well I ended up using oscommerce. For such a popular script it sure is hard to modify the way it looks!

[StephanieCordray]

That's one of the things I didn't like about it... it can be done but it sure is a pain.