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Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me. When people add more than four or five items in my FatFreeCart shopping cart, the Checkout button on the bottom disappears off the screen. I've seen with other carts that a scrollbar appears, but on mine a scrollbar won't appear on IE (I was putzing around last night and it magically started working on Firefox) unless I check on one of the "remove" boxes. The URL is http://www.joieletterpress.com

Thanks in advance!

I tried reproducing the problem in both FireFox, IE6 and IE7 and the scrollbar showed up fine for me.

Did you, by chance get this figured out?

Hi, I have this same problem. The problem only exists with the free version: FatFreeCart, when using the demo version of the pro version the scrollbar works fine. but with the free version no scrollbar appears and the checkout buttons disappear off the bottom of the page.

You can view this issue with your demo at: http://www.fatfreecart.com/

If you add 5 items to the checkout, (such as a Small Orange T-shirt, a Medium Orange T-Shirt, a Small Black one and a medium black one and a CD), then the checkout buttons disappear, making it useless.

Surely this is an issue that could easily be fixed for the free version and isnt an actual restriction to encourage you to buy the full version as it makes the free one kind of pointless, whereas if this issue was fixed FatFreeCart would be an excellent simple shopping cart service for those that only need the features it provides.

Thanks.

We are aware of that bug, but it's got a pretty low priority compared to things on our to-do list for the main, paid E-junkie service. Fat.Free.Cart is free partially because it's an unsupported service, and that includes the matter of timely bugfixes. It's really just intended as a teaser freebie for people who want to try out the barest bones of our service with a product or two before they commit to selling more products and realize the value of what a real E-junkie cart account can do for them, but if a few people selling only one or a few products decide FFC is adequate for their needs, we're fine with that, too.

Honestly, if you're offering more than a few products, you would probably want to use the paid E-junkie cart anyway, for all the added functionality and centralized management features that gives you. IMHO it's a false economy to rely on the free cart rather than pay the $5/mo for a basic 10-product E-junkie cart, for all the labor and hassle it saves you; I certainly wouldn't want to sell more than a few products in FFC, myself and can see how the time I'd save could be better spent driving sales to my site, which would more than make up for the nominal subscription cost of E-junkie.

Honestly, because I couldn't get the free cart to scroll down I am more than a little hesitant to pay money for the paid version of the cart. If the "teaser" doesn't work properly, how would I know if the real one works? I have since gone with another solution, without bugs.