ecommerce

Best Open-Sourced .Net based E-Commerce store solution for selling Jewelry?

I'm currently designing a shopping cart based jewelry site. I've tried the latest version of dashcommerce but it's very buggy and I keep not being able to get it to work quite right. I've also seen Nopcommerce but haven't tried it out yet and I'd like a few other options before I decide on my next solution. I'd love a .net based e-com...

ECommerce solution in php and ror

Hello, I'm a developer but I never used php nor ruby on rails. I would like to create a small e-commerce website. I found out 2 solutions that seems very good, Prestahop and Spree. Which one would you recommend if I want to be able to customize the skin, calculate different taxes for different countries, use different languages ... ...

What is the best framework/cms and shopping cart plugin/module/etc. combination?

What is the best framework/cms shopping cart for a beginner php/python developer to implement? I'm potentially going to be developing a site with an online catalog of about one hundred items. Info about the items will change every year. They might add new items. They want to admin their own items and such. I'm afraid that if I use a ...

Good & Simple PHP Cart Recommendation?

Hey All. Can anybody share a open source Good & Simple PHP Cart? ...

Designing database for ebay-like web application

Firstly this site is based on guests who are interested in selling their items to the site owner, so this isn't auction based like Ebay. Visitors basically would enter in details of an item ( tech gadget ) they'd like to sell, including condition, are given a quote on how much the item is worth, then fill in address info so the owner sh...

Satchmo like project in Java.

Is there a satchmo like project in Java? EDIT As for those trying to close the question, I did as requested and asked on server fault where it was not well received. ...

ecommerce stock management with external payment gateway

this question is similar to this one but with a twist (so the answer accepted for the older question is not valid in the following scenario) i have a site for selling tickets (PHP/MYSQL). Suppose i have just one ticket left: buyer A puts the ticket in her cart and goes to the payment gateway page (ie. paypal) the ticket is locked for...

Where can I find docs for PrestaShop?

I have downloaded and am using PrestaShop - but can not seem to find any docs. The official ones are apparently 'coming soon'. I imagine there should be some 3rd party ones elsewhere.. but can not find with Google myself. Does anyone know of any? thanks ...

How to get a list of product categories and their ID's from Magento?

I'm trying to import a large number of products from a DB into Magento. The DB has many different product categories, which I've recreated within Magento. However, when importing the products via a CSV, you must list the category ID rather than the name. Is there any way to bring up a list like the following: id | category 1 | pies 2 | ...

Change wording "Special Price" & "Regular Price" in Magento

Hi, I am trying to change the wording "Special Price" and "Regular Price" in Magento. I've already tried editing the Mage_Catalogue.csv, reuploading and clearing the cache to no avail. I've also done a giant Dreamweaver search within the entire site for the text "Regular" and "Special" and haven't found anything. I can only conclude t...

Recommended CMS...?

I'm about to start work on my first e-commerce website and have been doing some research on different methods and systems available to help. It's been recommended to me that I use a CMS and I have been researching the options. I've been reviewing different websites in search of 'the best one' but would really like some recommendations f...

Automatic Sales Tax Tables

A client needs the ability for their shopping cart to automatically retrieve and keep up to date sales tax tables for at least the US, and preferably all countries with which the US has tax treaties. Is this a reasonable requirement? Hosted solutions are fine. ...

Is there an XML standard for Ecommerce Products?

Is there a standard way of transferring product data between e-commerce web sites? I presume there are several cases where a company wishes to include another companies products inside its store. How then would this be accomplished? I presume an XML feed would the way to go, but is there a standard for something along the lines of pro...

How does one create product collections in Ubercart?

I thought i could use the 'attributes' feature for this, but unfortunately the way it displays the cost for each item is too limiting. How do I group products together in ubercart (e.g. a group of glassware all by the same designer) with an option to purchase the entire collection or individual items? ...

Tips/Suggestions for Building Ecommerce Site In Rails

I'm about to start building my first ecommerce site in Rails. I've coded other projects in Rails, but never done ecommerce. I'd love to hear from people about the best plugins, gems, tricks, tips, or anything else that they found useful in building this sort of site in Rails. Thanks all! ...

Amazon Product Availability

Many products on amazon are unavailable but a date is given for when they'll be in stock. I've used AWS and got an XML reply but I can't find the date information anywhere. Is it possible to get this information? Thanks. NOTE: This is what i've got as a request, what should I alter? http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?AWSAccessKeyId=MYID...

Single or multiple mysql rows? (shopping basket)

I am currently creating a custom e-commerce site (in php, but that's not really relevant for this question). I have just got to creating the shopping basket, and cannot decide between the following 2 options: option 1: Basket table: id user items In this option, I would have one row per user, with all of the items and quantities st...

Need Help with Magento Mini-Search

I have the below code courtesy to Edmond's Ecommerce that converts Magento's standard mini-search form to a more detailed mini-search like the ones seen in Amazon and eBay. At this juncture, I'm able to get to the sub-categories of the root directory, but instead, I would like to pull out the array from the sub-sub-categories. Root Direc...

What kind of protocol is being used here to communicate with PayPal?

I know that there are various ways to use PayPal's API (SOAP, etc), but I don't know anything about them, so in an attempt to broaden my knowledge on the subject, would you please tell me what is being used in this example from railscasts: 1. def paypal_url(return_url) 2. values = { 3. :business => ’seller_1234111...

E-commerce compliance when card details are processed by a third party

What forms of e-commerce compliance such as PCI-DSS apply when the card details are processed by a third party such as Paypal? Am building a bespoke shopping cart system that uses Paypal Express, so the card details never hit my server. I do however retain customer details so what compliance - both at a code and hardware level - must or...