Which Networked Vendor?

I'm currently using HiroVendors in my store, and they work great for what I've been doing(although it would be nice to know if anyone's modded it to show several items at once on smaller prims with the selected one on the big prim in the middle).

But I'm interested in getting my stuff sold in other areas as well as just through my shop so wanted peoples opinions on which Networked Vendors they think are best.

JEVN: I keep hearing bad things about it, but haven't had chance to play with it yet. Is it just drop your items in to a server prim and then set up the vendors or do you have to do much notecard config etc? Easy to use? Reliable?

APEZ iVEND: had a play with this and it looks quite good - I like the web front end for organising your items i nto collections, although its a little clunky - similar to SLX - The SlBoutique Webpages seem much more user friendly for quickly adding items to your inventory. My only concern with the APEZ system is that from what I can tell each Vendor can only sell items from a maximum of 2 of your collections. I'd rather be able to split my items up into many smaller collections so that I could have some very specific vendors dealing in just a few specific items (eg. just one collection) and have some large vendors that sell many items from 6 or 7 collections depending on where the vendor was placed.

Are there any other Networked vendors I should check out? Are there any good free ones?

Recomendations please

The other good networked vendor system I know of is Wolfhaven.

JEVN: read the manuals (there are two main ones) and you will be fine. It's a fairly lengthy read as notecards go, but very clear, informative and well written. I find them to be extremely reliable, but my servers are in a very quiet sim (yes there is still a lag free sim in SL) so this may help. Jevn has provided everything I need, including profit splitting and connecting other users' vendors to my servers. I switched from Hiro's vendors because I needed an integrated commission system, and was skeptical of the mods I had made to the Hiro Vendor to accomodate this.

JEVN Setup was initially time consuming, but I was also setting up 8 servers. If I did it again, I would make better use of the categories function and have fewer servers. But I'm very happy with JEVN. gets my vote!

BTW, support from the JEVN creator has been couteous and very prompt.

I strongly... and in case i wasn't clear enough, STRONGLY, recommend Moopf Murphy's vendor. Not only can it hold more than a few things, it seems to inflict the least lag on the sim, and it has the added advantage of allowing a customer to buy an item as a gift for someone else, which saves the trouble of the customer IM'ing you, paying you directly, and you sending a copy to the gift reciever.


Addendum:
I'll be the first to admit when i'm mistaken. The Vendopf and Vendopf NG are not networked. I delayed adding this until i could verify it with Moopf because the Skoopf is most definately networked... at least for Moopf. During the holidays when he released the limited edition skates, the network updated all of our skoopf vendors with the new skates, as he changed them from week to week. I assumed that if the vendors were networkable for him, that they were networkable for us too. My bad.

As good as the Vendopf NG is, as all of Moopf's creations are, it is not a network vendor.

I have used JEVN myself for well over a year now and do not have anything bad to say about it at all. If you take the time to read the manual its pretty straight forward, and the JEVN users group is (usually) pretty helpful in answering questions. It can be overwhelming at firist because of the multitude of options if offers, but well worth buying.

I've had a little more time to play with the APEZ iVend and I'm less impressed than I first was. The web-based front end for configuring your inventory, where you have to make a product for each inventory item and then add the product to a Collection seems rather too clunky... you can't make more than one product at once and so can't copy and paste all the details for items from the same collection in to each product for the collection at the same time.... very fiddly. I still think SLBoutiques way of adding products is the quickest as you can see them all onscreen at once and edit as many of them as you like at the same time.

I'm getting more drawn towards the JEVN system. As it is configured via notecard I can at least do a lot of opy and pasting I guess.

Could someone send me a copy of the instructions in world for the JENV system so that I can have a read through and see all the details before I make up my mind. Or is it possible to pick up just the instructions from somewhere without buying the system first.

Cheers for your help guys.

Stephanie, is this networked?

IM me and I'll send you the notecard tonight. Let it be known, while I keep considering doing away with my whole networked vendors setup, in the end I'm satisfied with JEVN and am still using it. I'm up to 4 servers now because I keep running out of memory on them (too many items, too many vendors) but it's not a big deal to split everything between multiple servers.

My main request if you do go with JEVN is don't use the 15 prim vendors, or at least mod them so they look different. The whole JEVN-logo-gold-border look is sooooooo fugly. In my case, I only use the vendors where you can't tell it's JEVN unless you edit the object.