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Searching for an eCommerse website that uses a Window Computer with MS SQL Server

Hello.

I would like to start an eCommerce store.  We already have a commercial business, but we are not selling through a website.
We have about 150,000 items that we would like to list.

Our database is managed locally by MS SQL-server 2008 R2.  We would like our sever to upload our products using SSMS.

I looked at sites including Volusion and Web.com which offer turn-key eCommerce sites with lots of templates, however none of these sites use MS SQL server, or at least, they do not expose the management feature of MS SQL that are provided with typical hosting plans.

Instead, these sites commonly use a website interface to upload the products database.  This does not work for us because 1, it can not be automated, and 2, they have file size limitations.  For example, Volusion only allows us to upload 500 items at a time, which would mean we would need to do about 30 uploads manually, every day.  This is not an option.

Does anyone know of an eCommerce site that allows us to upload using MS-SQL?  We don't want to do a custom site because it will take too long to roll out.

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Thanks Scott, I've been researching since I posted the question and your answers are exactly what I found, except of course you provided other options.

The only other option I found is an open source eCommerce product I could purchase for $400 which would be modified to be hosted on and work with my MS SQL Server or one of a shared platform.

So it looks like my option is to take a chance with this 'community developed' product, or go with something established and then deal with figuring out how to work with the API... thanks!