System Requirements

Before you install BV Commerce 5 please make sure that the computer you're installing on meets the minimum system requirements for our shopping cart software:

• Pentium III class processor (anything made after 2002 is fine)
• 1Gb (Gigabyte) of RAM
• 100Mb (Megabyte) of hard disk space
• Windows Server 2003 or 2008 (for live web stores)
• Windows XP Pro or Windows Vista (for developer web stores)
• A current version of either Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari web browser
• IIS (internet information server) installed and configured for ASP.NET 2.0
• Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0

Database Requirements

BV Commerce stores also require a Microsoft SQL Server database to function. For live web stores this is usually a separate computer with a full version of SQL Server installed. For development stores you can often use the free Microsoft SQL Server Express. We recommended that you do not use SQL Server Express for production stores.

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008 (SQL Server 2000 is NOT supported)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express is okay for developer stores