I posted a question here concerning creating a shopping cart. It seems maybe I am misusing the phrase "shopping cart" or maybe the people that answered didn't understand the post well.
I understand that open source software like "Magento, OpenCart, Prestashop etc.." are called shopping carts.
I also understand that paid hosting services like "Shopify, BigCommerce, 3dCart etc.." are also called shopping carts. Am I wrong?
Both the open source and the paid hosting services gives you the admin panel that you use to create your own shopping site.
I also understand that "Yii, CakePHP, Symphony, Zend etc.." are frameworks for creating whatever you want.
Is there a difference between "shopping carts" and "web shops". For me I see them as the same.
A shopping cart is a module of a web shop used for holding items waiting to be ordered in a place where the user can keep track of them.
A web shop is Amazon, ebuyer, or some other shopping site.
Magento is actually classed as eCommerce software which is umbrella term for what you're looking at.
I think you answered your own question: "...hosting services like "Shopify, BigCommerce, 3dCart etc..". These are services that offer a shopping cart. And Webshops are pretty much an implementation of shopping carts. Your whole onlnine store is the webshop, and the mechanism to choose products and purchase them is the shopping cart of that. The likes of "Magento, OpenCart, Prestashop" are eCommerce typically packages that include a shopping Cart that you would use as part of your "webstore". The whole eCommerce solution also includes things like order reports, customer reports, administrative features, etc.
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One of my partner has an OpenCart webshop (selling electronic products).
She wants to start some kind of affiliate program. So broadly the goal is: all of the products (with categories) can be integrated to another website. Other features should be accessable too, like product filtering, registration, cart, pay, so basically the full register-login-order process.
The budget is quite low, so I'm searching the fastest way to achieve this need.
If it's possible I don't want to install another instance of OpenCart, because flexibility and speed is important to my partner (and to the her potential partners).
Can someone give me a starting point? Some kind of module/extension maybe? I saw a tutorial video (OpenCart product feed), but if I understand it correctly it's 'just' a product feed, with this I cannot do product search/filter, buy from the base webshop etc..
Thank you.
Opencart has a built-in affiliate system that maybe useful.
Opencart also provides an API that you can use although you probably need to extend it so that it suits your needs.
I'm looking for an open-source shopping cart check-out system like FoxyCart. The idea here is that I'm looking for a shopping cart and checkout only and NOT a shopping cart with a CMS. I have my own CMS that I love and I don't want my products managed by my shopping cart.
I'm open to any programming language.
Thanks.
As of now there isn't any stand-alone Cart + Checkout Open Source system that solves the requirements that FoxyCart does.
You will have to find a work around existing e-commerce platforms or DIY.
Whilst not open source Moltin might be worth looking into, you can use whichever components you need. It will require some extra work integrating with your CMS and frontend however.
My products are custom or single-availability items.
I just need to be able to add and update a ton of products quickly.
My current ecommerce shopping cart is too complicated.
I only have a few products. I don’t even need an e-commerce shopping cart, I just need an online catalog.Friends, i need to create simply catalog of products with categories, images of products but without any payment system. Do you know PHP based, simple CMS for that purpose?
Try Wordpress. It can be used as a CMS system easily, with lots of addons for things like user rating, etc. You can also have multiple users, and they can add comments and such.
Oh, and it's open source too! :)
I am building a web application which allows visitors of a site to custom-build a product, and then add that custom-built item to their shopping cart in order to purchase it. For instance, I might build a car with the following customizations:
Alloy wheels
Leather seats
Red
I've searched around looking for a solution to my problem, but have yet to come across anything very helpful. I am using CS-Cart as my shopping cart solution.
What I need to know is how I might programmatically add this custom-built item to a user's shopping cart. Does CS-Cart provide an API for doing something like this? If not, does anyone have any suggestions on how I might achieve my goal? I basically just need to add a generic "custom build" item to the user's cart with the customizations they made somehow attached to this item.
I've been taking a look at CS-Cart and this question came up.
From reading through the CS-Cart API documentation, it looks like CS-Cart's API is more of a plugin framework than an actual web service. In other words, I believe you can write code to modify CS-Cart (or programmatically update shopping cart items) but this code needs to be written as a plugin into CS-Cart rather than simply as an API call from your third-party webapp.
So I think you have two solutions:
Build a CS-Cart plugin which has a mini-API to take your custom item from your webapp and add it into the shopping cart through CS-Cart
If you literally just need to add the item into the shopping cart, and your webapp and CS-Cart are on the same server, you may be able to skirt around CS-Cart and get your webapp to literally just add the item into CS-Cart's shopping cart PHP session
I hope this helps - I'm not mega-familiar with CS-Cart so if there are any factual errors in this I apologise.
Right, I am having a nightmare.
We have been using a service called Fat Free Cart (which has so far been rather good) to build our new eCommerce website.
http://www.fatfreecart.com/
http://www.designti.me/testing/flipstick/index.php
And we have come to the point where we are looking to add postage options.
To my knowledge you cant do this with Fat Free Cart (but if you can then any help would be appreciated)
Can anybody else recommend a cart that is as simple to set up and use as FatFreeCart?
I need to be able to just copy in a line of code where I need to put a buy or Cart button and I also need to be able to get a drop down box with different postage options.
It sounds like FatFreeCart is keeping it's promises, but your application needs more features that go beyond it's scope. I like this "spartan" e-shop very much. It is great for promotion of simple items in any site.
What you could do, would be to set up a "real" e-commerce application, since you are PHP oriented, like osCommerce, Magento or VirtuaMart. Virtuemart is an addon for Joomla. All three offer you a full range of features and a full back-office administrator application that will allow you to make offers, define discount periods and pricing according to criteria like number of items ordered etc.
Now, you can keep your nice website and link your products straight to the appropriate items of the eshop instead of adding FatFreeCart links. This way the user will proceed to complete the purchase.
The other option would be join the E-Junkie.com team and extend FatFreeCart to do what
you think is missing. You should be aware to keep it fat free after the add ons.
I just almost bought a Flipstick...