ecommerce

What is the best way to connect two users with credit card for payments on the web site?

What is the best way to allow one site user to pay to another user, through web site using credit card? What is best fits for this Paypal Pro or Authorize.net? ...

Target Non-US Customers In Email Template (NVelocity)

I am using Able Commerce and need to customize the Customer Order Notification email template. I believe Able uses NVelocity for its email templates customization. I would like to display a message to Non-US customers only. In other words, I would like to prevent the US customer from seeing a message not specific to them. How do I do...

How to create PDF for product description in Magento

Hello, I was searching the different Magento forums and extensions for this but i didn’t find anything. What i want is to let my visitors to create a PDF file with image and description for the products they are interested. With this will have the ability to save the product on its computer or print it. This will be some kind of a prin...

E-commerce application how is this robustness criteria implemented?

Consider the following use case 1. User selects a product to purchase on seller's site 2. Clicks on net-banking option and redirected to his bank website 3. Successfully makes the payment. 4. But before the payment gateway redirects him back to seller site the browser crashes. 5. Seller site reports that payment is not recived but the b...

Magento backend problem

I've just installed Magento on my website, but I can't access the backend. The frontend works fine, but in the backend once I successfully login, it takes me to a blank screen. I've read there's an issue with cookies and I've tried a range of commenting out lines in varien.php, but didn't work. ...

Using Magento with a simple one-product site

What's the best way to integrate Magento with a simple HTML-based single product site? I envision installing Magento, and then the existing site just "hooks" into Magento versus using the entire Magento framwork, etc. I don't want to use Magento as a "CMS" I just want to use it to handle the order processing. Any tips or suggestions o...

Magento Developers: Is Magento really -that- good?

We are looking at Magento as a possible commerce solution, but we are reading more bad than good on the free product. However Magento sells itself as the best thing ever, so I am confused on its actual value. Thought I'd ask the pros here. Can any seasoned developer here explain the difficulties in using Magento not only as a commerce s...

How to integrate shopping cart system for flash application

Hello. I've built a simple flash application that takes a user's photo/image, offers various effects and filters to play with. In the end, the application can write-out the resulting image to a PDF print file (to be purchased and sent to a printer). Currently I'm using PHP to template the web pages, with the Flash app embedded in the ...

How to securely pass credit card information between pages in PHP

How do you securely pass credit card information between pages in PHP? I am building an ecommerce application and I would like to have the users to go through the checkout like this: Enter Information -> Review -> Finalize Order Problem is that I am not sure on how to safely pass credit information from when the user inputs them to whe...

Offline product catalog

I am looking for a way to automate the production of an offline product catalog using product data contained in an SQL Server database. I have thought about using both Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services for this but there may be something better suited for the job. There is a requirement to display product images also (c...

How to fetch, display Amazon Marketplace listings by item?

Hi all, My question pretty much says it all: I'm looking for a way to display Amazon Marketplace listings based on an item lookup. Example: If I do a call to ItemLookup with an ASIN of 0590353403 (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), I'm looking for a result set of perhaps the top ten new or used Marketplace listings, preferably with...

Whats a good E-Commerce Cart

Whats a good Shopping Cart possibly free i know there oscommerce, xcart etc but whats a good one? and fairly easily to implement maintain and edit possibly merge with in my sites current theme. If you mean technology as in web language which I hope you do than it's php. other then that i have no clue what you mean apache/mysql? amd? lol...

Paypal Express Checkout with ActiveMerchant as in Shopify

Hi all, I'm successfully using Paypal Express Checkout in a marketplace web app passing for every seller the three parameters to the PaypalExpressGateway (login, password and signature). So, I see that Shopify lets the seller set only the e-mail address of the Paypal account requesting to grant scott_api1.jadedpixel.com as the API Par...

Database structure for ecommerce site

Hey Guys, I have been tasked with designing an ecommerce solution. The aspect that is causing me the most problems is the database. Currently the site consists of 10+ country based shops each with their own database (all residing on the same mysql instance). For the new site I'd rather all these shop databases be merged into one da...

Determining credit/debit card type

Hi, I'm writing a POS application for the iPhone/iPod combination, using the same exact hardware used in Apple Stores:: EasyPay. Ok, my hurdle is this: how do I identify which credit card type is being used as text is entered in the uitextfield? I assume I've to use textField:shouldChangeCharactersInRange:replacementString:? However, I...

API to lookup product information by UPC?

Is there an API that allows lookup of product information by UPC? I know that Amazon has the Product Advertising API but don't think it can be used for any purpose other than sending traffic to amazon.com as per their license agreement here. Specifically, my application would not have the principal purpose of advertising and marketi...

Are there any e-commerce websites that use NoSQL databases

I have read a lot lately about 'NoSQL' databases such as CouchDB, MongoDB etc. Most of the websites I have seen using this are mainly text based websites such as The New York Times and Source forge. I was wondering if you could apply this to websites where payment is a huge issue. I am thinking of the following issues: How well can yo...

Is it possible to do A/B testing by page rather than by individual?

Lets say I have a simple ecommerce site that sells 100 different t-shirt designs. I want to do some a/b testing to optimise my sales. Let's say I want to test two different "buy" buttons. Normally, I would use AB testing to randomly assign each visitor to see button A or button B (and try to ensure that that the user experience is con...

Solution for social network + marketplace with multiple sellers?

I want to build a social network, with some of the users being able to put up some stuff up for sale. So basically, a social network + multiple sellers e-commerce. What is the best technology solution for that? I was thinking of going Rails route, using CommunityEngine and ActiveMerchant. Another option is going PHP and using something...

Best CMS for shop cart .

Firstly I try to create a shopcart with CodIgniter but I need to build a lot of moodle. Because the time has come, I think I'll find another CMS to implement this shop cart and I'll take time build with CodeIgniter later ( I love it ). Someone suggest me one ? Thanks a lot :) ...