Back in 2008 I built the Healthy Retreat website.
Due to continued success the owners have decided to start selling Pevonia beauty products online.
The product line is fairly static and they didn’t require stock maintenance facilities so I built the store shopping cart functionality using Foxycart.
Foxycart is a little different than usual e-commerce systems as you can build store links using nothing more than a form or link. Here’s an example of the code needed to add a product to your basket with Foxycart…
1 2 3 4 | <form class="foxycart" action="https://healthyretreat.foxycart.com/cart" method="post"> <input name="name" type="hidden" value="Dry Skin Lotion (200ml)" /> <input name="price" type="hidden" value="19.50" /> <input class="submitbf" type="submit" /> </form> |
The rest of the site can be standard HTML/CSS/JS – basically whatever you want it to be. Other than including a couple of links in your <head> section, that’s all you need to do to integrate it with the Foxycart service.
You don’t even need to use a CMS for your content if you don’t want to, you can just use a standard webpage and add a link or form where the product needs to go. Although obvioulsy something like MODX may make matters easier if you have a substantial amount of products.
Anyway, if you want to see how it all fits together – take a look…
Subscription to Foxycart is $19 a month, but that doesn’t include the payment gateway or card processing. 
Tags: e-commerce, Foxycart, MODX, web site
