ecommerce

PHP + Quickbooks integration (API)

Has anyone found a working PHP API/framework for syncing my custom built ecommerce web site back to Quickbook for accounting? Update: I've looked into using the framework found at: http://idnforums.intuit.com/messageview.aspx?catid=56&threadid=9164 But I'm amazed to not find any other viable solutions. How else are people runn...

How do you measure if an interface change improved or reduced usability?

For an ecommerce website how do you measure if a change to your site actually improved usability? What kind of measurements should you gather and how would you set up a framework for making this testing part of development? ...

How do you add recommendations to your ecommerce site?

Every ecommerce website would love to have a full featured recommendation engine like Amazon but how do you get one started? I found one open source project (Taste) but what other resources would you recommend for education and code. ...

What is the best way to validate a credit card in PHP?

Given a credit card number and no additional information, what is the best way in PHP to determine whether or not it is a valid number? Right now I need something that will work with American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa, but it might be helpful if it will also work with other types. ...

Java-based eCommerce Framework

Is there a good java-based eCommerce Framework that you can recommend? I need to implement a quite sophisticated frontend for my customer and most 'ready-to-roll' shopping carts are a mess when it comes to customizing the frontend and changing the application flow. ...

Credit Card processing library that handles many merchant gateways?

Looking for a c# library that interfaces to multiple merchant gateways. Should at minimum be able to handle PayPal and authorize. ...

What is the best way to develop a shopping site, that others can use.

I'd like to develop an ecommerce site where I could allow others to sell items, things like pictures, videos, flash, etc. I want to be able to keep a percentage, and pay the rest back to the seller. Is there anything available, DotNetNuke, etc. that would do this or help get this started. If not what's a good way to approach this with t...

How many users will choose Paypal on an average ecommerce site given a choice?

Want to know how valuable Paypal is on an ecommerce site ($20-$80 average orders). Anybody want to run SELECT COUNT(*), PaymentMethod FROM Orders GROUP BY PaymentMethod for me? Any thoughts on what pecentage of orders we might lose if we dont have Paypal. My instinct is to say 'a lot of people will probably not order if they have to...

E-Commerce / Shopping Cart with Multiple Ship Methods per Order

Does anyone know of an e-commerce / cart solution which allows multiple shipping addresses per order, as well as multiple shipping methods per order? For example, customer adds 2 of Product A to their cart and upon checkout wants one to ship to Colorado via UPS ground and one to ship to California via UPS second day air. Open Source ...

Tracking e-commerce with Google

I've been asked to add Google e-commerce tracking into my site. This tracking involves inserting some javascript on your receipt page and then calling it's functions. From my asp.net receipt page, I need to call one function (_addTrans) for the transaction info and then another (_addItem) for each item on the order. An example of what...

What are the benefits of Microsoft Commerce Server?

What are the benefits of using Microsoft Commerce Server as opposed to some other 3rd party shopping cart system? Is it really that more "robust" than other .NET solutions - ASP.NET storefront, DotNetCart, VevoCart? At what point would you start looking at Commerce Server as an ecommerce solution rather than one of these other solutions...

What is the best opensource asp.net ecommerce solution?

I want to study the source code of ecommerce solutions and need suggestions of projects to look at. ...

Is there a standard e-commerce database schema to apply the discounts/taxes/gift vouchers to products?

A good and flexible database schema illustrating e-commerce products and their rates management is required. ...

PHP Script to execute multiple URLs?

Is there a sort of php script which will run a series of URLs and then direct the user to the final destination? the use of this is: creating a checkout cart on a site that doesn't have a robust "wishlist" feature. The script runs a series of "add item to cart" urls, and then the final destination takes the user to their cart of produc...

Looking for a PHP cart that can update pricing with a Web Service

Our company wants to resell products that change in price quickly. Our wholesaler offers a web service that we can call to get the current price of any item at any time. We would like to call this web service before displaying the product page to the user. (It would be bad for us if we sold a bunch of memory just after a large price i...

What features Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 DOESN'T have?

I'm trying to study what features can give Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 and I need to know what features doesn't have respect to other e-commerce systems. ...

Maintain runtime settings across environments in version control?

We are investigating the Magento ecommerce platform and refining our deployment and version control strategy. Right now, we are looking for the best way to keep multiple environments in sync (e.g. QA/Development environments/Production) when it comes to settings that are adjusted in the admin interface (e.g. Adding products, system conf...

MS Commerce Server Gotcha's

What are some things that got you when setting up a Commerce Server eStore? ...

Hide categories that have no products magento

I have many sites that use the same root category of the Main Site. Each product that is added is added to the site it was added to (wow.) and also the Main Site. However, I would like categories on a per site basis to only appear if there are products on that site. If I have: Category1 Category2 Category3 But Site1 only has products...

E-commerce Site

I have to build an e-commerce website, so I wondered how I would go about this? Are there any plugins like Paypal or something that will make the transactions a bit easier? ...