MiniVend

MiniVend is a full-featured electronic catalog system (commonly known as a shopping cart) with fast and easy online ordering. 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 2.02 Features

Powerful search capability

Complete control of appearance

Flexible Ordering Process

  • Multi-level order screens with configurable field verification
  • Shipping calculation, mixed modes, with UPS table lookup
  • Sales tax calculation, with fully independent non-taxable item and taxed shipping
  • Fully-configurable discounts with coupons or across-the-board discounts
  • Fully-configurable quantity pricing
  • Back end order entry capability, including mSQL
  • Fully configurable order reports

    Easy Administration

  • Automated installation and configuration
  • Runs under Perl 5 and almost any UNIX
  • Designed to be secure, runs with taint checking enabled
  • Built-in online help capability
  • Works well with all browsers

    Andrew Wilcox wrote Vend, the copylefted shopping cart software. MiniVend was originally based on Vend V0.2, but has been greatly enhanced, adding powerful relational database functions, support for frames, powerful searching, remote administration, superfast server mode, conditional HTML, user-customizable help and displays, and much more. This version of MiniVend includes an automatic configuration and installation utility, and continues to be free under the GNU copyleft.

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