Quick.Cart is a simple open-source PHP shopping cart, designed, built and maintained by the people at OpenSolution. It uses flat files instead of requiring a database and is written in PHP. It is extremely easy to install and to set up, and although not rich in features it serves its purpose well for small-scale trading.

There is no payment processing in the basic cart, but the scope is there to add it in as a plugin. Orders are notified by email; products can be grouped in categories, and one level of sub-category; page content can be fully maintained from the Admin control panel, as can all categories, products and orders.

Plugin Upgrades for QCv1.0 or above: Below is a list of my plugins for Quick.Cart version 1.0+. Please be aware that they are NOT backwards compatible with previous QC versions, and they may not have been tested for compatibility with latest QC release!

The major one is Plugin Manager, and I'm afraid that it is mandatory in order to run most of my other plugins. "Why?" I hear you ask. Well, in order to make installation of certain plugins a LOT simpler I built an extension for the core TPL Parser class, and rather than getting each plugin to carry its own version I built it into the Plugin Manager. Since the configuration facilities offered by the Plugin Manager are so useful anyway, I don't see a problem.

Other upgrades released at this time include Product Attributes, Tax And Discount, Template Edit, and HTML Mail Order Details. For all these releases I recommend taking a look at the release notes, which are available from the menu on this page. The downloads are all available from the 'Plugins for QCv1.0 or greater' folder in the downloads section.

Update - Latest v1.3 of Quick.Cart : The base Quick.Cart product has recently been upgraded to version 1.3. My plugins appear to run okay on this latest version of QC, although there are some minor differences that have been introduced with slight modifications to thebase templates and css styles. If anybody has serious compatibility problems, please let me know.

Update - Product Attributes v2.4: I have updated the Product Attributes plugin to fix a bug whereby a zero price was being displayed for attributes that had a price offset and quoted certain currencies in the select dropdown (primarily Dollar, but also other currencies such as Euro). [The fix involves a minor change to the checkAttributes.js javascript file and the pa.products_more.tpl template file.] The version of the plugin has also had slight modifications made to other template files to make it more compatible with QCv1.3, whlile maintaining backward compatibility with version 1.0 thru 1.2.

Update - Banded Couriers v2.1: This plugin has been updated to allow banding by the value of the basket. This means that you can, for example, allow for free delivery when the value of the products in the customer's basket exceeds a specified value. The number of bands has also been increased from 6 to 10.

Update - No Products In Category v2.0: I've upgraded this plugin to work for Quick.Cart v1.0 and greater, but it will only run under the Plugin Manager. Its a really simple plugin, and does nothing more than restrict product listings by category to displaying only the products within that category (ie. not the products from any sub-categories as well).