I have a requirement to build branded e-commerce sites that have their own urls but are on the same installation. I've been looking at DNN, and Jboss portals as well as the new GateIn collaboration between Jboss portals and Exo. I really like what I see in comparison to DNN, which looks a bit rough in comparison but I haven't seen anyt...
Please let us know if we can integrate a "Moneybooker"' payment gateway with the Rails application. We are trying for it and succeeded to some extent, however during integration we need to specify the url, where the user would be directed after successful transaction and it does happen. But once we get the success message, we get a mail...
Sorry if this is not a programming question, but I'm not really sure where to ask this. I will need to test an application using a live merchant account (specifically for refunds), but I don't want to sign up and pay for an actual merchant account because I will only use it for testing. Is there another solution for this? Or is there a p...
What would be best practice for the following situation. I have an ecommerce store that pulls down inventory levels from a distributor. Should the site, for everytime a user loads a product detail page use the third party API for the most up to date data? Or, should the site using third party APIs and then store that data for a certain a...
Is there a good opensource service/subscription manager engine that contains things like service dependencies (i.e. if I choose service A, I also need Service B and Service C), subscription types, start and termination etc... I'm building a site that sells various services and subscriptions and would prefer not to have to write that cod...
We are modifying osCommerce, but our architecture involves separate clusters for db reads and db writes. Has anyone separated these out? ...
Register for Amazon Web Services. Then try the following URL: http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Operation=ItemLookup&AWSAccessKeyId=YOURKEY If you have my experience you'll see: <Error> <Code>AWS.MinimumParameterRequirement</Code> <Message> Your request should have atleast 1 of the foll...
As the title suggests, I like to show new products called in from specific categories separated by rows in the home page. Row 1 -> New products from Category 1 Row 2 -> New products from Category 2 Row 3 -> New products from Category 3 ...etc In my Magento Admin CMS, under Home Page they will be called in as separate...
Hey all, I am trying to understand how the mobile payment system works, its all over social networks and games.basically we just submit our phone number and the service sends us a sms which we acknowledge and it in turn debits the amount from our cell phone service provider balance. If i have to write a similar engine like b...
What I mean is, is there some good way to dynamically calculate which user volume should get which % discount based around the discount growing as the volume grows? I imagine it would either be a curved or a straight line on a graph but I am not exactly sure. Is it possible that I could start with two ranges like: 25-500 users and 80-9...
Hey All, Just like to send a thanks out in advance for the help. I have successfully setup a downloadable product with the option of filling out the URL in the Downloadable Information section. I have also successfully integrated the Paypal Express payment option. I can also successfully add the product to my cart, checkout and pay th...
I have tons of experience with authorize.net but I have a client asking us to switch to usaepay. Wondering about anybody's experience with this system, good or bad. ...
hello all, In the coming months, I will be tasked with creating an e-commerce site for the first time. I've worked with e-commerce sites before, making edits and themes but never made one from the bottom up. I know this isn't a small undertaking which is why i'm doing research now! What are somethings that i would only learn from exp...
Hello, I have a ecommerce site that has 2 types of products: books & seminars participations. They are different, and have different attributes. I am curious how would you model this in the DB and as models (since you cannot inherit multiple classes) Right now i have something like: DB products (id, name ....) seminars (id, title, da...
Hi there Do you know a good review of the existing e-commerce open source platforms? I'll like it to be written in PHP in order to understand them faster and to contribute back. many thanks ...
I want to test MasterCard, Visa, AMEX, Discover... and I don't want to use any of my own credit cards. Are there any ways for testing ecommerce? Maybe buy one of those credit card gift cards? Any experience with this? nsoftware IBizPayPal V2 (working on way to get V3) ...
I am looking to duplicate functionality of a site I frequently use to purchase my own organic food and vitamins (http://www.iherb.com) whereby for users on the first order, they receive $5 off along with free shipping. If you enter the coupon code: GOV193 you get the $5 off. Likewise, you can generate future discounts based on the code...
I'm about set up my first eCommerce site. I was hoping you could recommend some shopping cart software. What are the perks of using pre-built software rather than developing some simple solution catered to my needs. Also, are there pre-written Terms and conditions for sites? Or templates that outline what aspects need to be addressed? Wh...
I just purchased an SSL certificate from my hosting provider, at the request of a bank I'll be doing Credit Card transactions with. As of yet, I'm not sure if I'll be sending my users to their site to do the transactions or if I'll just be sending CC information to their site to do the transactions. My confusion is in regards to coding a...
Is there a particular payment method that is less susceptible to chargebacks than others? ...