two eCommerce questions

[vinceb29]

Hi,
Looking for some advice on what to do. Am open to suggestions for prebuilt packages, hosted solutions, as well as "plug in" third party cart technology (or any other workable solution).

I need to build a store that will only have a small number of items for sale. (under 10).

However these items will be "base" models with a base model price. Each will have about 15-20 options that may be added for an upcharge. One or more options may be added to the same base model.

You can relate it to ordering a pizza. You start with a cheese pizza, then want to add pepperoni, sausage and onion. That would be base model plus three options.

Pepperoni might be $1, Sausage $1.50 and Onion $0.75. If base model was $10, total price with options would be $13.25

Does anyone know a solution that supports that kind of item listing?

Also regarding shipping. I am looking for a shipping calculator that will take customer order variables (origin zip, destination zip, package weight, shipping method) and then calculate shipping cost by querying an external resource (such as USPS) instead of me building and maintaining a rate table. I don't really care about how it does it so long as I do not have to maintain rate tables.

I have been searching and have not found anything to serve these two issues.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[CaldwellYSR]

I've heard a lot of good things about Magento but I've never used it personally so I don't know if it will do all the things you want it to do.

 

[DHDdirect]

If you are looking for a paid solution. Avactis is a very nice ecommerce solution and fairly affordable. If you are looking for free, well I don't think you can beat Opencart. The great thing about opencart is that there are plenty of extensions available and generally can find one to suit your needs.