Members Only Site
Shopper's Guide to Shopping Cart Programs

You offer paid online content. You need a program that will handle subscriptions and access to a members-only website.

Most of these have some kind of system to handle password access to your website. Here are several that seem to offer this kind of feature.

Shopping Cart Programs

1. 2Checkout.com*
   (http://www.2checkout.com)
2. Actinic Developer*
   (http://www.actinic.co.uk)
3. BIZyCart E-Commerce Server (http://bizycart.com)
4. Clickshop Shopping System (http://www.ecommercesolutions.net)
5. CyberOffice Shopping Cart
   (http://www.smartwin.com.au)
6. EasyCart (http://www.plugnpay.com)
7. EasyStoreCreator (http://www.easystorecreator.com)

Password Administration Only

1. Account Manager Lite, SiteInteractive (http://www.siteinteractive.com/acctlite/). Free. See the Pro version below.
2. Password Administrator+, Illmatic (http://illmatic.net/), $149-$199.
3. Locked Area, Neil Skirrow, LockedArea.com (http://www.lockedarea.com). Lite (free) and Pro ($99).
4. Password Sentry, Virtual Solutions (http://www.monster-submit.com/sentry/), $65.
5. MembershipClientPro.com (http://www.membershipclientpro.com/)$99.
6. Membership Manager (http://www.groundbreak.com/mm_index.html) $200.
7. Other password administration programs http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Password_Protection/

E-Commerce plus Password Administration (lower cost)

• Account Manager Pro, CGI Script Center (http://www.siteinteractive.com/acctman/). $99.
• Verotel Billing Solutions, Verotel, Inc. (www.verotel.com). No set-up or monthly. 13% to 15%. Also 900 number billing.
• Membership Management, Plug ‘n Pay Technologies (www.plugnpay.com/content_direct/membership.html).
• Passmaster Gold, Citro Communications (http://www.citro.net/scripts/). $150.

E-Commerce plus Password Administration (higher cost)

• eMeta (http://www.emeta.com)
• MemberGate Content Publisher, Hamilton News Media (www.membergate.com). $3,500 and up.
• WebOnTheFly, Dan Miller (www.webonthefly.com). Written in ColdFusion.
• EclipseNet, Sandlot Corp. (www.sandlot.com). Mid-tier solution. Average client pays about $250,000.