Custom cart module

So apologies in advance for all the Foxycart questions. However it's becoming apparent that the Foxycart module does not do some of the things I thought it does; and if it does, it's not clear how. To make things more difficult, we are not using the default audio module. Additionally, our skins were made from scratch. All this is making it very difficult to do what we need.

So I am debating creating our own module for checkout. It seems like it would take almost as much work as modifying the foxycart module.

I have 2 questions:

1. What is the benefit of using Foxycart? I can see from the JR perspective it gives Jamroom operators the ability to plug into multiple payment processors. However, if I just intend to use paypal, why wouldn't I just create my own cart, page and checkout with paypal? What is the additional value Foxycart provides?

2. Are there additional difficulties that we might encounter? Are there other considerations in the workflow that are difficult to do from scratch? It seems like JR is handling the secure download in the 'my items' pages. We just need to create our own tables to track sales, create reports, and do payouts. We don't plan on using subscriptions. Is there anything else the foxycart MODULE provides?

Thanks for the advice
updated by @dannya: 05/19/14 01:18:23AM

Do that. The community is waiting for someone to step up.

The biggest benefit of foxycart is we don’t have to build and maintain integrations with multiple processors. It extends usability reach to more locations than we could ever support payment processors for.



If you don't plan on using subscriptions and do plan on using paypal, why not use the existing paypal module?
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/104/paypal-buy-it-now