Thank you all, great information in this thread.
I actually run carma now, but I have spent over 1700 on design, setup and programming plus the lease fee for the last 9 months and its no where close to working the way I want it to.
I don't think I'm trying to do anything fancy, I just want to do the basic things that its advertised as being able to do, but I am not a coder at all, and I estimate it would take me several months to a year to educate myself enough to set it up myself.
I am more focused on affilaite management and sales so I really cannot spare the time.
I don't think its necessarily carma's fault, I think the first designer I hired may have duplicated alot of effort coding functions into the templates that should have been handled otherwise, and done some things that are contrary to best practices that have frustrated later efforts.
It's possible that I am very close to being done setting it up, but today I discovered that after finally getting video to play, (was billed 730 for setting up this function) my content protection (strongbox) breaks video playback. Bettercgi wants 100 an hour to track down the problem.
I am baffled that an expensive CMS like this cant just play video like nearly 100 open source cms's can, but what do I know.
I am exactly one disappointment away from tossing it since I would be forced to determine that I am throwing good money after bad.
But I really cannot do without NATS so I am looking at other solutions that will be less of a headache.
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