ecommerce

mangento in postgres or oracle database ?

hi, i need an open source ecommerce solution, i think magento is an excellent ecommerce solution but i can't use mysql because is a customer requirement and magento only offer mysql database support. any tips to setup magento in postgres or oracle ?. thanks in advance !!! ...

Looking for a lightweight ASP.net shopping cart that is PayPal compatible

I am currently developing a simple eCommerce site. I am looking for a lightweight non hosted ASP.net shopping cart solution that needs to Be able to talk to PayPal Integrate with current site Preferably handle PayPal's Instant Payment Notification The current site uses PayPal buy it now buttons or PayPal's add to cart buttons. The...

E-Commerce Best Practices: For declined credit cards, how much info is too much?

My colleagues are having a debate as to how specific to be for credit card transactions that were declined. We get a lot of details about the transactions from our card processor, and we're trying to decide how much info to pass on to the user. For example, do you tell the user that their card was declined because it's expired or the CC...

Commerce Server 2009 - For how long an anonymus user basket information is stored in the databse before it is gone

Hello all I have a question related to Commerce Server related to products basket. Let's assume a situation when user A is an anonymous user that went all way through the shopping cart(chooses product, fills in information) then changes his mind on the last step(before submitting order), kills the browser and does something else. From ...

Paypal integration to serve multiple sellers in one go for a shopping site.

Hi, We are in a process of making a shopping site. Here, the buyer can select the items of their choice and put them in shopping cart. These items can be from different sellers. Now, when the buyer makes the payment we want that the amount should be automatically deposited in each sellers account as per his product price. Please sugges...

Magento eCommerce Templates

I am trying to port a site design from OSCommerce to Magento and I am finding it quite difficult. The documentation is quite poor tbh. Has anyone done this or used Magento in anyway? Any good tutorials/guides out there, if not for porting then just for building a template from scratch? Any help would be great, I've already been looking ...

Magento guest checkout option not showing up regardless of allow guest checkout setting

I’m having a strange problem with my fresh magento installation. There is no option for guest checkout even though I have Disable Onepage Checkout: NO, and Allow Guest Checkout: YES. I’ve looked at the core_config_data in the db and can’t find anything that would instigate this behavior. I have no template customizations and have disab...

Workflow for taking a percentage of a payment (PayPal)

I'm implementing a business model where the service takes 10% of a fee. For example, the user lists a product for $100. The buyer purchases it. $90 goes to the seller, $10 is collected by the site. Does anyone know offhand if this is feasible with Paypal. In theory all the money could go into our PayPal account and then a $90 paymen...

What features to be included into an e-commerce system written in php?

Hi, we are planning to buid an e-commerce system in php. We will not ship the products but offer them as download. What, in your opinion, are the technical must-haves of such a project? (databases, php modules, server ...). Thanks very much for your suggestions and tips ;9 best, heinrich ...

PayPal send payment programtically

Is there a way using the PayPal API to make a deposit into someone's account behind the scenes in code? ...

Tool to integrate with any ecommerce website to extract catalogue/product details

Hi all, Q) Is there any tool to integrate with any e-commerce websites to extract catalog/product details for its mobile website. I reviewed JDOM and screen-scraper solutions. They are not fulfill my requirements properly and I need to rework for certain scenarios like (desktop website layout has been changed, I need to change setting...

Cross-Browser Issue Regarding onchange/onfocus

Hi, I'm trying to turn a <label/> and <input type="radio"/> into a single button that when clicked, adds that specific product to a shopping cart. This example deals with 1 product, with potentially multiple variants, (ie. The Product would be "Denim Jeans", the Variants would be sizes, "26", "27", "28"). The HTML would look something...

ASP.NET Engine for E-commerce

Hello everybody. Can you advice me good free ASP.NET engine for E-commerce? ...

Spree e-Commerce within Existing Application

I'm trying to setup Spree within my application (I'm open to using the Gem or running it in vendor mode). I've reviewed the documentation and the wiki and I'm still a bit confused as to how it might work within my existing application. I have no problem using a separate database for Spree and customizing my application to pass data bet...

Is there a Faceted Search framework for SQL Server & .NET?

I currently use SQL Server to store products in a large catalog web site. I'd like to rebuild the simple categorization we have to something with tags & facets so that users can filter down to relevant subsets as quickly as possible. I should NOT do this myself. Without going too far afield (VM to host level 3 aeai) does anyone know of a...

Getting product details using Amazon API

Hi, I've got the following code to output a list of items from amazon, but I not sure how to access specific products (with Summery, reviews, etc). Any help would be appreciated. <?php function makeAWSUrl($parameters, $associate_tag, $access_key, $secret_key, $aws_version = '2009-06-01') { $host = 'ecs.amazonaws.com'; ...

Free, Lightweight PHP e-Commerce solution

I'm searching for a lightweight e-Commerce web-application implemented in PHP5 and using MySQL as storage db. main requirements are: as small as possible Free or Open Source supporting multi-language (best if utf-8 was primarily supported) easy to use (don't need core to be bloated with functionality I won't use) basic system for sett...

Ecommerce with django in google app engine

Is there any module available for googlecheckout/paypal in django on google app engine? are there any example apps which are doing this? ...

Integrating Magento with a simple static website.

Magento is an awesomely powerful ecommerce platform. That said, it is also very complex, and I'd like to know if there is a relatively simple way to utilize Magento as our mISV site's backend to fulfill orders without actually "using" Magento's framework to build the site, run the site, etc. In other words, I don't want to use the buil...

Google Check-out and promotions

Hi, I've started working on some enhancements to an ASP.NET web forms e-commerce project, one of the tasks is to add promotion codes to the check-out page. Currently, the site is using Google Checkout (via the GCheckoutButton that comes with the .NET sample pack), the trouble is I can't find any sensible way to add the promotion to the...