I am researching UBB for my company, and would like to see examples of ecommerce sites that use UBB. We are facing some registration issues, and would like to see how other sites have handled registration for shopping vs./combined with registration for community elements. Any suggestions?

I used to charge people for membership, and I used a program called Account Manager Pro. It's available at http://cgi.elitehost.com and costs $199 (at least, that's what it was when I bought it). Now, membership is free, but I still run an on-line store. The shopping cart program I use would not work properly with the Account Manager Pro program installed, so that's why I took it off. But I'm sure it will work with other shopping cart programs. The problem was that I had to specify certain paths in my merchant account module, and these paths kept the cart from working properly. I didn't know how to change modules or even how to change shopping cart programs, so I gave up on trying to charge for memberships, which wasn't really working anyway, because why would anyone pay to discuss topics when their are gobs of free discussion boards out there?

Anyway, maybe that'll help.

--Dan

Actually, what we're looking at is whether we can have a member who is already registered with our site bypass a second registration, and whether a minimal registration gathered by the UBB system can be passed to our database---seamless registration for all elements on the site. We're using a hosted board right now, and it's not really ideal for us---we'd like something that's hosted on our server, controlled by our developers.