ecommerce

How to go about planning a modular eCommerce web application?

I have been tasked with doing some planning and research for a home grown in house application. Our primary development language is ColdFusion and Flex3, so I wanted to attack this problem with a modular solution, using an MVC framework. I must mention that I am not a huge ColdFusion developer, but will be one of the architects behind ...

ECommerce, products in category and category browsing

Hi Everyone, I am building an EC website for a customer and the project manager came with some strange ideas and I am struggling to actually implement what he sold to the client. Here comes my main issue and a quick summary how the system is setup: product are inside categories, categories could be children of an another category. So ...

PHP or Java for e-commerce

In developing a web application that will handle credit cards, purchases, digital downloads, is there any real world benefit to using Java over PHP? This will be a store that sells digital downloads. ...

Multi-vendor shopping cart software

I'm looking into building a web app that allows multiple e-commerce stores to coexist on the same installation and lets allows each individual vendor manage their own products, pricing, sales reports, etc. I know that there have been a number of previous questions on the Stack regarding the best shopping cart software, but this is a bit...

eCommerce Drupal

I want to sell eBooks on one of my websites. I want to know which module is best and simplest for this purpose. I am confused between Ubercart and eCommerce module Simplicity is the major concern for me. Please Help me out. Thanks in advance. ...

Recommendations for eCommerce Framework / Products for working with Django?

We are building out an app in Django and trying to nail down what the right ecommerce framework will be to work with in Django. We've heard of Satchmo. Any other suggestions on ways to approach ecommerce in Django that's clean, simple, cheap and easy to implement? Thanks! ...

OsCommerce - Remove osCsid in urls

I discovered that Google has indexed the osCsid parameter in some of my URLs at my osCommerce application. I tried to find a solution but I don't want to do something if I'm not sure what I'm doing. I only have access to the FTP and not the CMS system. Is it possible to solve this problem through the FTP? ...

E-commerce Development

I hope to open the doors to discussion with this question. I am a CodeIgniter developer looking for an E-commerce solution that follows a similar MVC structure like CI. I have narrowed it down to two solutions, but maybe someone knows of something better. Magento - really well done, but slow Opencart - takes advantage of MVC, similar to...

ECommerce, product and stock how to page those

Hi, I am building a EC system for a client, this client is selling second hand products. My DB scheme is roughly like this +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ | Category | | Product | | Stock | +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ | category_id | | category_id | | stock_id | | path | | prod...

Creating Scrum Product backlog for an eCommerce multivendor, multi department Portal

I am a .NET developer wanting to build an SaaS based ecommerce system with B2B and CMS features (custom built, ASP.NET MVC preferably or using Dotnetnuke that enables SaaS scenarios). Technologies would be mainly Microsoft's (.NET 3.5, 4.0, Ajax, jQuery, Asp.NET MVC or MVP, SQL Server/MySql, EF 2.0, NHibernate, WCF, WPF, Window mobile 6...

Pragmatically adding give-aways/freebies to an online store.

Our business currently has an online store and recently we've been offering free specials to our customers. Right now, we simply display the special and give the buyer a notice stating we will add the extra free items to their order after they checkout. Of course, it'd be nice to automate this entire process. I've been mulling over a fe...

OSCommerce alternatives

Hello, I'm looking to evaluate a few opensource e-commerce solutions. Are there any good alternatives to OSCommerce out there ? I've looked at Thelia and Magento so far, are there any others that are worth looking at ? They should be : Free as in freedom Easy to maintain / extend Coded in PHP or Python (ideally, but I'm open-minded)...

PAYPAL IPN problem

It's not a problem but i don't know how to do this; let's say that I have a sign up form with some fields: username, password, email, as you know the user clicks on the BUY BUTTON and pay's up. Well, how can I know the username that just made the payment, I mean how can I link those two things together, one idea it's to use the email ad...

Ecommerce template for sharepoint 2007

Are there any good commercial e-commerce site templates (or site definitions?) for sharepoint? I noticed a lot of strong opinions (good and bad) about sharepoint on this site, is this a good direction to take? ...

Link to shipping tracking from website?

When a customer views an order. We show them the carrier and the tracking number. But based on this information is there a way to generate a link directly to the tracking page for that carrier/shipment? Thanks ...

What has this e-commerce store been made with?

Hi, I really like this e-commerce store - http://www.gonedigging.co.uk I have had a dig with firebug but cannot tell how it has been made, is it a bespoke job or an open source package? Who can help me? ...

Quantity in amazon cart?

Hi I'd like to change the quantity in an AWS order. I've used the form below and that works fine for adding 1 item to the cart, but when I try to change it to a quantity of 2 it says there are no items in my cart. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. <form method="GET" action="http://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/cart/add.html" id="Quantity"> <in...

Ubercart 2.0 - list of code changes to allow for Fractional Quantities?

I am working on an Ubercart 2.0 project for a client. It is for a fabric store. They want the ability for customers to add fractional quantities (or decimal quantity) like 1.75 m. Does anyone have a comprehensive list of code changes that will allow for this functionality? ...

Modern ASP.NET eCommerce solution

Hi, i'm done quite lot searching, but just to be sure, is there any modern ASP.NET eCommerce solution? Almoust all solutions i've found are ASP.NET 2.0 based, use no ORM, have no clear separation of layers. And i've searched mostly for commercial packages, hoping that commercial products will offer more, that open source ones? I mean the...

creating a ecommerce application, how long did it take you?

I don't seem to like any .net ecomm app out there and was thinking of rolling my own. My requirements are pretty straight forward. 1. only u.s customers can purchase 2. tax in only 1 state 3. simple category structure (2 levels) 3. products don't have any variants, unique by the sku It seems there really isn't much to it. I already hav...