MiniVend

MiniVend is a full-featured electronic catalog system (commonly known as a shopping cart) with online ordering capability and support for SSL security. It is designed to provide an interface complete with automated entry of orders into your database.

MiniVend is freely-redistributable under the GNU General Public License -- you can download it via FTP.

Andrew Wilcox wrote Vend, the copylefted shopping cart software. MiniVend is based on Vend V0.2, but enhanced considerably, adding support for SSL security, frames, powerful search capability, remote administration, superfast server mode, client-side imagemaps, user-customizable help and displays, and more. This version of Vend includes an automatic configuration and installation utility, and continues to be free under the GNU copyleft.

Frames, the new windowing technology Netscape has proposed for HTML 3.0, significantly enhances the electronic catalog experience, letting the user maintain a context as they navigate through the catalog.