How much will it cost and other common questions

3 | published by Danny H. on Wednesday, September 02, 2009

We have gotten a lot of people asking the same questions. This is our fault for not putting this info up somewhere easily found. I see a FAQ page coming in our near future.

I would like to provide answers to common questions and give you a little insight about why we're making certain decisions.

How much will LemonStand cost?

The final price of LemonStand has not been determined at this time. We are currently evaluating what the final feature set will be to determine this. This has been a difficult task because no other cart is comparible to LemonStand in terms of design flexibility and how extendable it is. No other cart has simple but powerful CMS features like LemonStand does. Thus there is no reference point for us. But we intend on making sure LemonStand has terrific value to our customers. Once we have determined a price we will announce this on this blog, Twitter, Facebook, and email.

Can I get in on the beta program?

Yes, but not yet. The beta program is not open yet. When it is, we'll announce it on this blog, Twitter, Facebook, and email.

When will the beta program start?

There is no hard date for this at the moment. Once we get a little closer we'll be able to announce a date. We are working on a few key features, as well writing some basic documentation.

The date will be announced most likely a week or two in advance. Again, we'll announce it on this blog, etc.

Will _______ feature or payment gateway be supported?

The final release of LemonStand will support a good variety of popular payment gateways and shipping rate APIs. We'll support as many as possible out of the box at launch, and will continue developing support for more afterwards. Support can be added by easily installing modules. You may also develop your own module to support a particulare gateway if it were more obscure for example.

Feel free to continue asking about features and suggesting new ones. We're recording these inquiries and evaluating them based on how useful they will be to the majority of our customers. Features very specific to your industry or site requirements would be better suited to be developed as a module. In that case, we are still keeping track of these inquiries and are looking at them as potential modules to be developed in the future.

Will LemonStand be translated into the ______ language?

It does support localization. Before it can be translated, it must get further along in development though. It is certainly possible and we will be doing this. We do not have a list of planned languages we will be supporting.

We'll be working with the community on translating LemonStand into other languages. If you are interested in helping, contact us about it to discuss it further. We already have some people on board for French, Spanish and Portuguese but we can always use more of course.

Is LemonStand hosted or not?

We recently added some text throughout the website addressing this, but it was quite a common question when the site first launched. No, LemonStand is not hosted. Possibly in the future we will venture into this arena, but at the moment it is not on our radar. We are focusing on providing a premium PHP/MySQL cart with commercial level support and resources.

What are the server requirements?

LemonStand will work on all common Unix hosting environments. As of now, the requirements are as follows:

Apache version 2.0 or higher with mod_rewrite module enabled
PHP 5.2.6 or higher
MySQL version 5.0 or higher
PHP Multibyte String Functions module
CURL PHP library

We hope that helps

We have tried to include answeres to the most common questions we have been getting. If you're questions are not answered, please contact us and we'll get back to you ASAP.

Eventually we'll move this Q & A (along with more) to a FAQ page for easy reference.

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