ecommerce

Recommend a payment gateway that allows recurring/incremental payments?

Can someone recommend a payment gateway that allows incremental (irregularly recurring) charges to the same card? I've looked at PayPal - they offer a recurring payment systen, but you can only charge payments on a schedule (the same amount at regular intervals), so it doesn't work for me. What I'm after, is a payment solution without ...

buy/sell virtual "credits" on a website, is there some easy to use API or something

the users on a website need to have the possibility to buy/sell website's currency (credits in exchange for real money), is there some easy to use API to do this (that is usable in asp.net mvc) ? the user can: buy website's currency for real money and get real money for website's currency is this possible with paypal ? ...

Magento module - overridden a controller, adding templates

I am currently working on a Magento extension, and I have overridden a core controller, which works fine. I have now added a new action to my controller. Problem is that whenever I call the action a blank page is produced. If I echo something it is displayed correctly. Therefore I dug into the core of the Customer module and controller...

Sell digital goods online

What's the best solution for a photographer wanting to sell image files online? I tried zencart, but it's way over the top and their backend looks like a 3 year old designed it. Is there a free solution out there? One that has easily modifiable templates and isn't too tedious to add hundreds of pictures for sale? I'm seriously thinkin...

What production-ready SaaS (recurring billing) solutions are available for Rails?

I am working on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application and I am looking for a billing plugin of some sort that will manage my subscriptions, customers, and recurring billing. There is the RailsKits SaaS kit ($249.00), but I prefer to use open source software. I have also found maccman's saasy, but the phrase "At the moment this is al...

e-commerce clothing site in .NET from the scratch or site copy ? suggestions please

Hi all, I am thinking to create an e-commerce site for a clothing business. I have bit of a development knowledge in c# .net, html, css and other web technologies. Could you please advise on these questions ? Is it a good idea to create a site from the scratch ? I have a running example of such a site, however it is bit old. So can ...

anybody implemented the site AspDotNetStorefront ?

Hi, If anybody has implemented the site through AspDotNetStorefront, please let me know how easy it is for junior level c# developer? What are the main issues I have to consider before buying the product ? Thanks ...

Django LFS - custom views

For all those ligthning fast shop users. I'm trying to implement my own first page view that will list all products from shop ( under '/' address). So I have a template : {% extends "lfs/shop/shop_base.html" %} {% block content %} <div id="najnowsze_produkty"> <ul> {% for obj in objects %} <li> {{ obj.name }} </li...

Handling checkout flow data

I am currently developing a little ecommerce application to help me get to grips with CodeIgniter and programming in general. I have a 4 step checkout process. Customer name, email, shipping country Shipping option, shipping address Billing option, billing address Review and submit Currently I am storing all this data in the session...

Definitive country list for e-commerce applications

I am looking for a list of countries for use in the development of an e-commerce app including: Country Name, Country Code, Language, etc. While only the country name (and probably the country code) are really necessary, some of the other info may be nice (as long as there isn't too much!). I used to have a good list but I can't find ...

Standards for taxonomy terms or categories

Every time I build an ecommerce application I need to invest a considerable amount of time into categorising products. Factors such as ambiguoty, duplication and subjectivity can often lead to rework and wasted time. Are there any standards available (such as ISOs) that can be applied to categorising products like computer or car parts ...

How to create my Magento productCollection

How can i create my own productCollection from the scratch. So i have a list of products and from those products to creaete collection. Or i need the second variant, if i take the collection with all the products $products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product'); how can i filter them by the ID. What i am trying to do is override the search...

Magento user created attribute for products is not saved...

I am fighting an apparently simple thing for about two days now. I hope somebody can help. I created the myUpdate EAV attribute class Company_Module_Model_Resource_Eav_Mysql4_Setup extends Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup { public function getDefaultEntities() { return array( 'catalog_product' => array( ...

Magento layout without category image

hi, i want to remove a category image from a content section and let the subcategorys be displayed with their category images in a small: http://magento.hamburg-eyewear.de/index.php/eyeglasses.html the top category should be removed and the two subcategory underneath should be small images. how can i fo that? thank & regards. ...

Open Source online marketplace software

Does anyone know of any OSS marketplace software - something that adds buyer/seller functionality to an existing ecommerce platform? (Ideally .net.) ...

What is the best solution for a blog with e-commerce?

Hi! While there are loads of Joomla vs Wordpress posts out there, none address which is best suited to a blog with an attached online store. I anticipate having about 40 or so articles and want the full set of blogging features- tags, comments, talkback, sharing options, SEO functionality, support for ads etc. The online store will co...

What frameworks should we consider for a custom web application?

A client is looking for a custom web application, which will eventually include lots of interconnected components, but the main features are: Subscription based membership as well as virtual/digital product sales Members have their own public web cookie-cutter directories (e.g., storefronts, pages, etc.) and personal member admin area....

Is anyone using PayPal split payments on a production site?

I'm reading up on PayPal Adaptive Payments and their API and am interested to see how people are actually using the split payments feature. Thx ...

Accepting Payment with local debit cards from foreign countries

Hi all. I have an ecommerce website and I am currently accepting payments from visa, master card and all the other major cards. However, one issue I am having is accepting payment from customers using local debit cards. Say someone from China doesn't have a major credit and he wants to use his local debit card, I want be able to accept p...

Open source eCommerce solution for multiple vendors (a la Amazon Marketplace)

I'm looking for an open source ecommerce solution that supports multiple vendor selling, in a similar fashion to Amazon Marketplace. I'm not sure this solution exists, but I'd be interested in some feedback. I've looked at Open Cart, Magento and Prestashop, but none of these appear to offer these features. ...