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...
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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 am creating a custom paintball marker configurator. The customers will be able to choose a marker, then add hundreds of different accessories with our html5 / java script configurator. The client has an OSCommerce site and the goal is to send all the pieces that make up their custom marker to the OScommerce cart.
All the pieces in the configurator will be in the oscommerce system, but we're going to build the configurator on codeigniter and a seperate html5 site. So my question is, is there any way to send information from another page on his site (our configurator) to the oscommerce cart.
I was thinking maybe an array of products with their specific information like sku number, product id, etc, and add that array to the oscommerce cart.
Any ideas? I can't find any solutions online. Thanks ahead of time!!!
http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/45279-add-to-cart-from-external-page-or-site/
https://www.google.com/search?q=oscommerce+add+to+cart+from+external+site+site:forums.oscommerce.com
Looks like a nightmare TBH. Lots of issues with cookies/sessions. Might have to create a separate oscommerce file (e.g. custom_add_to_cart.php) to hit from the external page. Doesn't look like there's an easy way to add to cart > edit options on external page > save to cart. May be able to avoid some issues if you serve the html5 site on the same domain or create a custom page/module (if oscommerce has those).
Good luck!
I would like to add recurring monthly membership fees to the WP E-Commerce plugin. Also I would like this plugin to give away a free gift/product on sign up with 10% off existing products. This one time sign up feature would also need to allow for a (one time?) free shipping on all products.
S2Member is a great plugin for membership. It will let you do things like Platinum, Gold and Silver membership levels even. You will need to create a custom function in order to give a free product on sign up, but that should be some fairly basic PHP work. eShop is probably the best plugin for ecommerce I know of. The answer really is that you will need a couple plugins plus some custom coding to get it working the way you want it.
I feel like this question is extremely general and a bit inappropriate for this section, but I'd suggest looking at various WP E-Commerce plugins that you can customize to get the functionality you need.
Try taking a look at this one, for example.
I am learning Magento. I have already installed and gone through admin side.
Have done for adding customers ,Products ,Pricing or other stuffs. Now I want to learn more things (currently don't want to go for code and database).
Can anyone post here sample tasks (specially for learning). Because as I said am new to magento and don't konow exactly what type of tasks we can do in Magento.
I want some good tricky and sample tasks to do in magento. So I can learn it more.
1.) Change the favicon logo.
2.) Change the magento home page logo.
3.) Change the Top links "name" Ex: My Cart as image.
4.) Adding new link in top links.
5.) Move the top menu navigation as left menu navigation.
6.) Creating banner slider in home page
7.) Listing the feature products in home page.
8.) Need to put newsletter subscription in footer area.
9.) Removing the magento ads in right column (i.e) The dog and poll removing.
10.) Adding the new column in sort by order in category page.
11.) In product detail page need to show product description and some other information as tab format.
12.) Magento registeration need to enable extra options like company name, phone number, address, user type.
13.) Each customer group need to show different type of price for products.
14.) While importing products we to import the tier price to each products.
15.) Creating new attributes to products. And need to import values to that new attribute.
16.) Adding custom new column while registering a customer. And it need to show in admin side as editable.
Basically you are in e-commerce domain and magneto is a e-commerce framework which provide a platform to build e-commerce application with some build in out of the box functionality so that the developer at the end of the day not have to start building things from scratch.
what type to tasks we can do in Magneto.
being a eCommerce platform it provides you out of the box functionality ranging from product management,category/catalog management,shipping,checkout process,user management,post order process etc and many other things.
E-commerce in itself start from application like B2C (Business to customer), B2B (business to business).
I want some good tricky and sample tasks to do in magento
i am not sure what exactly you mean by this statement what you want to learn how exactly flow going on or how you can customize the things.
my suggestion is to explore some e-commerce implementations like amazon,eBay etc see how things flow there and than come out what you want to have in all.
i have not worked with magento but being in e-commerce domain i know every platform provide some sample reference application so it should be the case with Magento so just run that application and see how flow is going on and play around with it.
one thing that seems good to start is checkout process as it is always an integral part of any B2C implementation.
Other aspect is Product content management.
How about learning to create tier prices for customer options? I am quite sure that you need this for the future someday.
Magento allows tier prices for products and prices for individual options. However, tier prices for individual options are not supported. Tier prices for individual options are needed e.g. when selling promotional items or textiles with custom imprints. To create individual tier prices just try one of these three options:
one of these three options:
Realizing the surcharges with Cart Price Rules
Simple Configurable Products / Better Configurable Products
Generating additional individual options with prices
In my opinion the last one is the best solution. An individual option only allows one surcharge, when more are needed (one for each tier price you want to have). So you create several options with different prices. By doing so the following module might help you. You can request it for free at: http://www.code4business.de/kontakt-impressum/.
This module requires entering of tier prices and individual options in the backend. Afterwards the prices of the individual options for each tier price are entered in the newly generated options. When you save it, the following table of individual options will be generated. In this table, the tier prices can be entered for the original individual options. After filling out all these fields, the result is expected to be in the checkout.
I hope this is the kind of learning-idea you imagined! If you have further questions just take a look at this link. It offers you detailed descriptions with pictures how to create tier prices:
http://www.code4business.de/tier-prices-for-magento-custom-options-en/
I am building a site using code igniter. I am developing a custom product catalog using php and mysql.
What is the best way to go about making those products purchaseable online. I thought about writing my own cart, but I am a little worried about how much time that would take.
Most carts I come across online are full fledge inventory systems carts / a whole web site basically. I want to be able to really have full control.
What do you think my better options are? Any advise is welcome!
Don't be afraid of building your own. A shopping cart is a solved problem and there are many, many examples on the net. Just define your requirements carefully before you start: do items in the cart persist between sessions? What happens when an item in cart is no longer available for sale, etc.
If you want to have full control but be able to customize how users have that control, building it yourself is probably the only way to go. Depending on the amount of control you wanted to have, it could be very time consuming.
Search for shopping cart systems online and you can find lists like:
http://webtecker.com/2008/04/22/8-best-open-source-shopping-cart-solutions/
Many have demos available that let you try before you download, and if you find something with all the features you want already, problem solved.