I have an e-commerce web project for a convience store. I have been researching for a good e-commerce CMS and am pretty convinced that Magento is a good one and i'll be probably considering it.
The project is to be divided into two phases where first the client needs a simple website with forms to gather delivery information and careers forms, along with data reprensentstion in a good UI such as accordion and specific html5 designs. The website shall be responsive.
The other phase (after few months) will be the e-commerce part where the client wants to sell products online and make deals and coupons and gather some specific type of data such as most selling products and so.
I havent used Magento before and am afraid i wont meet my deadline if i get to learn Magento and try to develop the site in this short period of time (1 month for the first phase of project) thats why i have some questions:
Can I drop some of the running features of Magento such as sales and shopping cart and online payment...etc for the first phase where i need to only make a standard website?
How easy is it to add custom html and custom database tables and view user specif data other than products and pricing (image galleries, UI accordions, social media widgets and integrations...)?
How easy is it to maintain responsive content within the Magento CMS while adding custom modifications?
Thanks alot.
Magento is a very complex, e-commerce first system.
It has a very high learning curve and doesn't offer feature rich content management features (all it has is simple CMS pages and blocks).
For e-commerce, Magento is very good, however it requires a lot of knowledge to work with. Since you're on a 1-month timeframe with no Magento experience, I would not recommend it. Go with something you're comfortable with, then work from there.
You can always combine two systems (Wordpress + Magento for example) later on to make a website that has both extensive content management AND e-commerce capabilities.
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Am a JavaEE guy. wanted to develop a website just like a glassdoor including the same customer and user reviews for the product. So i googled some and got to know wordpress plays a big role for the same.
Wanted to know will it possible to create a same website template using wordpress or should i need to stick with java cms portal system? (including all the functionality)
Please suggest some templates if its exactly matches glassdoor!! and which one will be best for back end like java or php for this requirement?
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The Glassdoor website is created in the fbml in my opinion which uses fbml,jquery and javascript.
Scratching my head for over a week. Here is why...
Now that there are Inventory Management programs for Square users,I've been trying to solve this; how to integrate Brick and mortar with ecommerce.
Scenario
- Use Squareup at Store
- Use Woocommerce
- balance inventory from one source.
Tradegecko integrates with Woocommerce.
Otterology and [shopventory][3] integrates with Squareup.
Is there a way I could have just 1 of these (TG, Otter, or Shopv) as my inventory management software for both square and woocommerce? I'd like to stay away from Quickbooks at all cost. I'm willing to get creative, perhaps use another software. Any and all information and ideas as welcome and most most most appreciated.
I heard that Otterology will be supporting woo commerce soon, but I'm not sure about the timeline. You should be able to find updates in their blog section at https://otterology.com if you're still interested in that functionality. Otherwise, you could check out ShopKeep which offers a complete online and physical store solution; but you'd need to switch from woo commerce.
I'm on the same... Scratching my head comparing and testing...for two weeks and going on...
one answer could be:
Maybe Veeqo?
Although i like better TradeGecko, Veeqo (wich is soooo slowly updating importations!) offers a POS too (not cheap).
Anyone finding solutions to that?
another idea i had:
Using TradeGecko as a POS, i mean creating Orders directly. Then you don't have a POS with thumbnails and all that nice screen, but anyway you are able to create oders, bill them, manege stock and sync with woo, and that's it.
Forgetting about Square and using one of the two POS plugins that actually exist for Woocomerce:
http://woopos.com.au/
http://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-point-of-sale-pos/7869665
StitchLab does integrate with both Woocomerce and Square, but not quite good as TradeGecko in inventory management i think.
Just started developing with Joomla! (2.5), completely newb, read through the docs talking about Plugins, Components and Modules. Having a hard time figuring out which to choose and how to implement. I'd like to have a table similar to the one used in the Plugin Manager in the Joomla! administrator backend where the the results can be searched, filtered and even individual entries can be toggled (Enable/Disable by clicking on Status circle). Can someone point me to a tutorial or even some example code I can in developing this?
I’ve already read a few sites including this (http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/joomla-25/plugin-vs-module-vs-component).
If you want to create page in administrator panel with tables, that display some items, you should develop joomla component.
Look for this: http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_(MVC)_Component_for_Joomla!2.5
Note, that only components can provide extended administrator interface for managing some entries, create pages on font-end. Plugins intended only for processing output of components and modules. And modules intended only for display some html on specific positions in front-end template.
I'm trying to make a site where the user can choose between three options and then quickly pay (on the site, not redirected to paypal) and then once they pay are able to view the product (video). I want everything to be on one page. I have been looking at Ubercart for Drupal and WP eCommerce for Wordpress. They both seem overly complex for what I need, however, I can only program in HTML/CSS and I'm just starting to use PHP. Does anyone know of a guide, easier way, or CMS with an easier to use module for eCommerce that would fit my solution.
I have created a number of sites with WP-Ecommerce... Avoid using it if you can. It is buggy and inflexible. There are a number of other ecommerce plugins in WordPress plugin repository.
Get an account with Paypal and it will let you generate "Buy it Now" buttons for your products that are static HTML and manage all the payment process via Paypal. There's no signup fee. Their rates are a bit on the high side (starting at 2.9% + $0.30), but for low volume or testing new ideas they're a great place to start.
Give BigCommerce a try.
It is easiest to setup and use by far and if you have basic knowledge in HTML/CSS you'll be able to edit the templates no worries.
Integrates with a tonne of payment gateways out of the box.
Comes with free 15 day trial too.
Here's my predicament. I'm working with a designer who has a very unique layout for his ecommerce site. It's kinda like a table/tier based system where you buy a certain amount of points. I need the ability to have user accounts etc and it will all be in joomla. There's many options such as magento, virtuamart etc. but basically what I'm saying is... will it be possible with any particular platform to transform the products so much so that can still use the platform? here's a screen shot...
http://www.one2designs.com/images/screen.png
Basically It needs to some way integrate into joomla, allow for user profiles etc, and I guess be so customizable that it can be transformed into that look.
Both Joomla and Virtuemart allow for 100% of customisation of the templates used. The process is simply:
Design
Cut and slice into HTML
Build Joomla template, product pages.
Further, the screenshot shows simply a list of 7 products, so either Table with 7 columns or a ul, li construct will work.
Is there anything else product wise you need to manage? It doesn't look like people will actually add more than 1 product to their "shopping cart", so a simple form manager like RSForm may achieve the same purpose. There are E-Commerce plugins for most newer form managers now and it should also not be too hard to link up third party payment gateways as a one off.
From the look of your image, that is simply a product with various options that are user selected. You would need to change the way the product options are displayed to fit the design, but other than the display, there is nothing unusual about a product with many options. Everything below the radio buttons is pretty much irrelevant as it is only option details. Virtuemart could be made to do this fairly easily.