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# DESCRIPTION

MiniVend is a freely-redistributable database retrieval and display application focused on e-commerce. In other words, a high-end and powerful shopping cart. It serves any number of catalogs via the World Wide Web, allowing users to select items for placement on their shopping list, or cart, and then buy them by filling out an order form.

MiniVend supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), PGP/GPG strong encryption, and online payment services to improve security. It is designed never to write an unencrypted credit card number to disk.

MiniVend has a host of features -- a partial list is available at its web home page:

            http://www.minivend.com/

A more complete list is in its documentation, available via links from above.

A full list can only be seen by examining its source code. 8-)

MiniVend is written and maintained by Mike Heins, but much credit goes to Andrew Wilcox, who originated Vend and created many of the underlying algorithms.

MiniVend is freely redistributable under the GNU General Public License, a copy of which should come with every MiniVend package. Basically this means that you can use it for commercial or non-commercial purposes for free, but you you have certain responsibilities if you modify and/or redistribute it. See the GNU GPL for more information.

- Where can I get MiniVend? How much does it cost?
- What else do I need to run MiniVend?
- If you are having problems
- Information Needed for Support
- If you are intending to run MiniVend on an ISP
- How can I unzip the file?
- About Vend, MiniVend's ancestor
- Why doesn't my question get an answer on the mail list?
- I sent the author a REAL IMPORTANT question and he didn't answer!
- Is MiniVend secure?
- What HTML editors work with MiniVend?
- What can you expect in the way of support?
- Where can I get more help?
- How does MiniVend compare with other shopping carts?
- I want to partner with you, or exchange links, or ....

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