ecommerce

shopping cart to email

I use simplecartjs to make a shopping cart on my website where you can select element and send it to your cart... next step, will be the checkout process, but for business reason, no checkout process will append, and a simple form with name and email and date for order pickup will be ask. Now the order must be send to an email address (a...

How can 4,000 products be easily transfered from one ecommerce solution to another?

A potential client has a slow ecommerce site using Joomla/Virtuecart which takes 6-10 seconds for any page to load. I've seen faster solutions and would like to transfer the 4,000+ products with little hassle to a speedier, more full-featured open-source solution. Is there a good way to transfer thousands of products between ecommerce ...

Recommended E-Commerce Platform for Power Users (Highly Customizable)?

I'm the primary tech guy for an e-commerce site that gets 700k pageviews/mo. and does over $1M/yr. in online revenue. We've long outgrown our in-house LAMP e-commerce application and I'm searching for alternatives. I've looked at almost every OSS shopping cart I could get my hands on, but none of them have met our needs. I've pretty...

Dealing with two people buying a unique item in an online shop at the same time.

Hi there, I'm creating a simple online shop with PHP integrated with PayPal that sells unique items. What I'm wondering is how other shops deal with multiple people attempting to go through the payment process with the same item. This is my current draft strategy: Items have three status types: available, on hold & sold. As a user mo...

Production-ready PayPal, 2CO and Authorize.Net libraries for Python/Django?

Seems that Python lacks e-commerce solutions compared to PHP and C#. Any production-ready PayPal, 2CO and Authorize.Net libraries for Python/Django? EDIT: http://github.com/johnboxall/django-paypal http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/969/ E-commerce: http://www.satchmoproject.com/ http://code.activestate.com/recipes/456361/ http://...

how do I use "server side code" to hide sensitive data from browser view?

In setting up a SSL payment page for online sales it is suggested by the merchant services company that the sensitive data (i.e., merchant credentials, ID and SSL pin, etc) be hidden with the use of Server Side Code. I have been unable to find, after hours of searching, a comprehensive definition of server side code and how it could be u...

Google Checkout. Show shipping rates before logging in possible?

I am trying to integrate google checkout with my current site. I am calculating the shipping on my end, before passing it to google checkout. The problem is, when a person click the "google checkout" button, it takes them to google checkout but it does not show the shipping. It actually states it will be calculated on next step. In t...

Auto site categories in wp-ecommerce

Im working on getting a auto site up for car parts and was going to use wp-ecommerce under wordpress. Is it any way I would be able to get the categories to narrow down from year > make > model > then show all the stuff for that car? something like what this site has: http://www.stillen.com/vehicle.asp is it anyway I can work the categ...

Flexstore or JQuery for e-commerce site

Am currently evaluating the best RIA technologies to use for building a new e-commerce site. Currently there are two options we are looking at.One is the flexstore example where we intend to embed the intuitive shopping cart into our site or go full JQuery in providing the needed end user experience.We intend to use Zend as our server pl...

Help selecting a PHP E-Commerce platform?

Hi, I need an e-commerce platform. I would prefer something fairly basic. I need the following features. Cart Discount Coupon / Code User Reviews Paypal / Card Payments Can anyone recommend something for this. I have had a look at magento which looks awesome but it also looks like I would be swatting a fly with a bazooka if I used it....

CMS Question for a shopping cart site

Greetings, i was ordered to build a portal where a user gets rewarded with points by buying to our company, and then those points can be redeemed by ordering some products according to those points. I need to know if there is any e-Commerce CMS that may work that way. the whole points assignation will be managed on another site, and tr...

Storing commercial files on the server

Where would you store files that are meant for sale on an e-commerce website? ...

Where can I learn about security and online privacy?

I'd really like to start including shopping cart functionality in my projects. At first im content relying on paypal links, but I really want to be learning about specific security threats and how to combat them. Eventually I want to feel comfortable receiving and sending customer credit card details for ecommerce. Obviously this is a ...

Running a background process on an ecommerce website

Hi, I have programmed in C/C++, but I have no experience in web programming. Someone asked me to help them build a e-commerce website selling a service. I started looking into using PHP/MySQL for building the site. My question is: given that HTTP is stateless, how do we get some background process to trigger so that it may, for instanc...

My first e-commerce site, or how I learned to stop worrying and love credit card transactions

Sooner or later it's going to happen. A freelance client is going to want an e-commerce website, and while the programming doesn't scare me, the handling of other people's money does. Thing like this should be done right. So, successful e-commerce site builders, what did you learn before and after your first e-commerce site to make you ...

What is the conceptual difference between a Product and a Quote Item

Involved classes : Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Item and Mage_Catalog_Model_Product. I get both of them as a result of listening an event ( on cart add ). I am trying to update the quantity information for a product from an external source. So far I based my code only on the product information and I am not sure if this is correct. What is ...

Anyone know of a good (free) Web to Print cms/script?

I've looked at a few options that use magenta but they want money for every order we do, I just need a simple cms that lets people customize a business card for example and it sends us a pdf to print it, rather then making us manually make the card. Thanks! ...

E-commerce Search Engine

Our current search engine for our shop sucks. It's basically a simple mysql fulltext search. It's not always relevant, ranking is not very useful, and no filtering, auto-correct, etc ... Now I know we could spend more time and money and make it good, but I feel I'd be re-inventing the wheel. I was looking at Google Commerce Search (htt...

Which one to use for payments on Drupal website, LM_Paypal or Ubercart ?

Hello, Im a new Drupal user . I want to be able to handle payments on my Drupal website. I would like to know which would be a better option, LM_Paypal module or the Ubercart module ?. Does the Ubercart module have any specific advantages over the LM_Paypal module or vice versa ? Please help. Thank You ...

Auto-detecting product data feeds for an arbitrary E-Commerce site?

Hey all! My web app needs to access an arbitrary E-Commerce store and determine whether or not it has a product data feed (i.e. a Google Base feed; an RSS/ATOM feed of all products in the store). Also, I need to extract the location of this feed. The best solution I can think of so far is to maintain a comprehensive list of known loca...