Third Party Solutions
CartThrob is a component of ExpressionEngine. As such, it can work with a variety of existing software. Listed below are links to software products that can extend the functionality of your shopping cart. You can have a basic shopping cart without any of these products, but eventually you’ll find a use for them. CartThrob makes it easy to take money, but beyond that your store may need reviews, or download locking, or a fancy account page. We don’t recreate the wheel, we use the great products that already exist.
Paid Software
- Solspace’s Ratings Module ($49.95) Complete Rating system: collects, tallies and displays ratings and reviews.
- Solspace’s USER Module ($99.95) The User module’s primary purpose is to bring EE member template functionality outside of those restricted templates.
- GeoFinder ($30) and GeoTagger ($10) make it simple to build a store locator for your ExpressionEngine site
- LinkLocker Pro ($39.99) is a great utility for locking downloads. Though CartThrob comes with built-in download locking tools including encryption of links, and locking links to a specific member ID, linklocker takes this further by adding IP restriction, download limits, single downloads, download time limits and more.
Free Software
- Barrett Newton Interactive’s Member Template Freedom Similar to the USER Module, Member Template Freedom will allow you to use EE member template functionality outside of the member templates. It literally allows you to embed EE’s member templates in standard templates. MTF is free, but more limited than the USER Module, and a bit more difficult to set up. Still, free is free, so it comes in handy.
- PixelAndTonic’s FieldFrame What a great extension. Download it now, seriously. Back already? OK, read on. This extension gives you access to a lot of really great add-ons built for ExpressionEngine, including fields specifically for file uploads, Google Maps, Advanced Relationships, Data Matrix fields (FF Matrix available for $35) and more.
