I have inherited a huge mess of a site. Look at www.staytan.com . They are using a Yahoo SHopping site just to do the checkout functions and none of these pages are branded. They also have another web site with separate prices and pages. I am not familiar with Yahoo Shopping and the interface does not seem very friendly, but they seem to have an old editor. Is anybody familiary with the newer Yahoo Shopping? Is it worth using? We were thinking about using Yahoo Shopping for storage of products and then creating a XML file to tranfser data to the other web site, branding the Yahoo pages, but also keeping the other pages for a strong SEO site. Any opinions, ideas?

thx,
karley barber

Hi Karley,

With the greatest of respect that sounds like a really convoluted method going about this. I've looked at Yahoo shopping in the past and although functional I agree that it is not user friendly to either the store owner or, more importantly, the shopper.

As you inherited "a mess" as you say, you may be jumping from the frying pan into the fire by sticking to Yahoo.

Have you researched the other options that are out there?

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Phil

Open Mind Commerce - Simple but powerful eCommerce Stores

Isn't Yahoo Shopping very different in the US to the UK since Yahoo bought Kelkoo? I was under the impression that they were two very different beasts.

Well there certainly will be variations between the two versions but seeing as Yahoo is a US company they will have just ported and tweaked for the UK market.

That is the big problem I find with the majority of carts out there, very few are built by UK developers specifically for the UK market, they tend to either US biased and make a mess of VAT etc or try and satisfy all parties at once...

Unlike our system of course

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Phil

Open Mind Commerce - Simple but powerful eCommerce Stores

I'm inclined to agree with openmind. By the sound of it, you'll be far better off with another solution.

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Lawrence