MiniVend

MiniVend is a full-featured electronic catalog system (commonly known as a shopping cart) with online ordering capability. It is designed to provide an interface complete with SSL security and full database support. It is as powerful as commercial systems costing thousands of dollars.

MiniVend is freely-redistributable under the GNU General Public License -- you can download it via FTP.

There is now a frequently-asked question (FAQ) list for MiniVend.

If you want to see what can be done with MiniVend, see some of the sites that use it.

MiniVend 1.03 Features

Andrew Wilcox wrote Vend, the copylefted shopping cart software. MiniVend is based on Vend V0.2, but enhanced considerably, adding support for frames, search capability, remote administration, superfast server mode, client-side imagemaps, user-customizable help and displays, and more. This version of Vend includes an automatic configuration and installation utility, and continues to be free under the GNU copyleft.

Frames, the new windowing technology Netscape has proposed for HTML 3.0, significantly enhances the electronic catalog experience, letting the user maintain a context as they navigate through the catalog.

To learn more about MiniVend, see the HTML documentation, visit the offical MiniVend site, or download it.