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.
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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.
I want to create multiple stores in woo-commerce, where admin can make multiple users and user can open his own store and can sell his product.
I just want to know, is it possible in woo-commerce. If yes than please let me know how, and suggest how this can be done?
Just have a template database and theme ready, when a new store is needed then deploy it (can be set up as a bash script).
Without heavy modding this is not possible, and honestly it would be a waste of time doing it that way around.
WooCommerce has a plugin for this now called 'Product Vendors': http://www.woothemes.com/products/product-vendors/
Hope this is what you were looking for?
No it's not currently possible the way I think you want it.
The plugin named by #Adamj is not a complete solution for multi stores and network of eCommerces. Basically it just gives the possibility to earn commissions on products assigned to other users.
If you are looking for a more complete solution, have a look to WooMU http://woomu.org
It's an Open Source version of WooCommerce that is focusing on MultiSite and Multi Stores functionalities.
They are still in Alpha development. The Beta it's not released yet.
In the meantime you can join their community to share your ideas or to contribute in the development.
I am contributing :)
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.
I wish to have an Ecommerce solution where admin can add category, add products within category, shopping cart, checkout(using paypal).
I knew Magento supports this pretty well, but we have short time frame now for development(1-2 weeks), and therefore we need something simpler and lightweighted that we can learn it fast, and customized it fast.
I would like to hear you recommendation.
OpenCart may work well for you, or, just develop it in-house.
Drupal Commerce Kickstart 2.0 is really awesome!
Checkout OSCommerce. It has a wide and growing community support.
As per their website, they have 12,819 live stores, 6997 Add-ons so far.
You can download the source code here.
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good script to manage a catalog of products. Just need basic stuff, like being able to browse by category and or tags and search. Without many extras, as I'd like to have it working inside a CMS.
softpedia has a few scripts, but I'm also considering creating it from scratch. Ideal would be something in between that allows a bit of customization and control of layout, but takes care of the backend. So adding editing and managing items should be simple.
any ideas?
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has anyone worked with http://www.oscommerce.com and can shed some light?
CubeCart is quite simplistic and easy to use, there's also osCommerce and Magento if your looking for a more advanced ecommerce system.
ZenCart is a popular solution, and free. Of course any (good) product listing app is going to be a shopping cart.
virtuemart may work out for you as well.. you can add it on top of joomla .. that way you would have a CMS to create and change the custom pages as well.. the other solutions are good too but they are more cart oriented.