"Just a cart" jump-in page?

I tried to search for this feature, but didn't seem to find it. If there's already a discussion, please point me to it. I did find a thread for my other question, which was 'anonymous' shopping, under "New Idea For Purchase Without Login". We have 50 some odd sites, ship 1,000 orders/week and have never created accounts for our customers (tho' it would be nice to add that as an option). IMHO coming up with a 'username' is at least as much of an obstacle to shoppers as entering a password.

Anyway, we're looking for a drop-in replacement for CoolCart, which is 'just a cart'. We have all the websites/product pages, etc., so we don't want to use ZenCart's CMS-type functionality. It would also be nice to more easily turn off all the clutter in the left and right nav bars. Basically, all our sites have an 'order' page (EG http://www.altovis.biz/order.htm ) that does a POST to get the info into the CoolCart page (View Source to see the 'hidden' fields it passes for the various buttons, and/or click the buttons to see how the info shows up in the first CoolCart page, which also gives an idea of how uncluttered we'd like our ZenCart-based checkout pages to be). I would think a strong developer could make a page that receives the POSTed info, and translates it into ZenCart-compatible data, in fairly short order. However, I am the most technically-oriented employee here, and I'm FAR from qualifying as a "strong developer". Plus I wouldn't want to re-invent the wheel if it has already been done.

So. Has anyone built, or would anyone be willing to build, a 'jump-in page' as described?

It's as much work to build a "jump in" page as it is to alter the product-listing templates to show the content as you have it today. The time spent doing this "in" Zen Cart would put "you" in charge of your store and its contents, but would leave you with requiring customers to create accounts in order to checkout. However, it would mean that adding another product would be as simple as adding it to the database ... which you'd have to do anyway ... but there'd be no need to edit HTML pages and rebuild the POST data etc.

Ultimately it's up to you, but I'd say just do it in Zen Cart.

Thanks for the quick reply, but since we currently have THOUSANDS of content pages already built on our various sites, each with an entirely different appearance (compare http://www.diet-world.us/ http://www.san-hoodia.com/ http://www.breathe-pure.com/ http://www.flex-protex.us/ http://www.suvaril.org/ http://www.cyber-supplements.com/ )--adding 50 products to a DB table, and editing 50 'POST-to' pages, would be FAR easier. Using ZenCart for the product pages for future sites might be doable, but I don't see much chance of convincing my boss and the Web guy to completely recreate the existing sites. I don't know how many businesses use CoolCart-style 'just a carts', but I don't see many likely to convert to ZenCart without this feature.

We also use the 'jump-in' capability for office/phone orders, to avoid having to navigate through all the product pages.

And account creation is something I'd have to program differently (non-email based userID), or out of the picture entirely (I'm thinking a 'throw-away' userID based on a date/time stamp), anyway--far too many of our customers don't have email addresses and/or won't give them to any business.

fair enough. If you want to build a "jump in" page, simply add your products to your database, then view that product in your Zen Cart store, and copy the FORM/INPUT field details for the add-to-cart button.... and past them into your "jump in" page.
This method means you'll only be using the checkout features of Zen Cart.