ecommerce

How to implement checkout/basket system

Hi, I'm making an app for fun and would like to know how to implement a checkout/basket system on the app. Basically, a list of products is pulled in from a web server in form of XML file, which is then displayed in a UITableView controller. A tap on the cell takes the user to a more detailed overview of the product. The app would need...

is it ok to forget about people without javascript turn on?

I am currently building a new style ecommerce shopping cart to test various scenarios and get the best conversion rates. Alot of this will be Javascript based. So I am trying to establish whether we are now in a time where we can simply say we happy to drop support for people with javascript turned off? Thanks for your help help and a...

E-commerce platform for custom application integration

We are building an online subscription-based website and I'm looking for recommendations on which e-commerce platform to use for the checkout process. Requirements include: Only four products. The sign-up process of the site is heavily customized, and after checkout the user should automatically get logged into the subscriber area. ...

How to solve the problem of not being informed of successful payments by the 3rd party system used by my website?

I have a subscription based website that interacts with a 3rd party system to handle the payments. The steps to process a new subscriber registration are as follow: The subscriber enters his/her details in the subscription form and click on the submit button. Assuming the details specified are valid, a new record is created in the dat...

Are eCommerce platforms worth it for large scale systems?

My company and I are building a new system for a relatively large client. We are going to be replacing their entire system, which includes some eCommerce aspects to it among many other things. It is not a typical public shopping site, and there are many things about the system (both back end and front end) that are quite different. Some...

Testing PayPal certificate on a different domain

I have a PP-enabled site that needs to be tested. I've already tested it with Sandbox credentials and it works ok. The next step is to test it with live PayPal credentials on test server. Here I hit a wall, because using real credentials from liveserver.com on test.liveserver.com gives me error of "malformed url" (which as I read stands...

Custom cases of product in Magento?

Setting a Magento store for a winery. They well bottles of wine, but you can only order bottles in cases of wine. There are 12 bottles of wine in a case, and you can make a custom case. So user could pick 4 Chardonnay, 6 Merlot and 2 Shiraz to make a case of 12. But they could not just choose 4 Chardonnay and 6 Merlot. Orders have to b...

Paypal IPN Handler for Cart

Hey everyone! I'm using PayPal 'buy it now' buttons on my website to sell products. Because I keep track of the number of units in stock for each product in a MySQL database and I'd like the inventory tracking in the system to be automated, I am using PayPal's Instant Payment Notification functionality to let me know when a purchase ha...

Is anyone aware of any open source shopping cart packages that work with Rails 3 (something like Spree)

Title says it all....Is anyone aware of any open source shopping cart packages that work with Rails 3 (something like Spree) ...

How to find the type of shopping cart used to implement in website

Is there way to identify which shopping cart open source technology has been used to implemente for any given website? For example: if you are looking at shopping.yahoo.com,shopping.rediff.com can we tell which Shopping cart tool they have used for Example : zen cart, os commerce , magento etc.... I am trying to idenify the website wh...

ezpublish for practical e-commerce?

For while now I have been using ezpublish as a framework, and CMS when my web projects are based on PHP, and I must say, I have grown accustomed to it because of its flexibility for most scenarios. However, I've had to build e-commerce sites now and then, and ezpublish includes a webshop that caters for the e-commerce needs of your inst...

Pay online service

Hellow, I have a database where you can select articles etc, users have an account, it's all in mysql and php (i guess you don't need that code). What i was wondering was how to write a script that allows users to pay online for the articles they selected? It doesn't need to be any code, just ideas / hints / tips / ... (that are doable ...

A good ecommerce alternative to Magento?

I been dealing with Magneto for the last 6 months now and its a real headache, always some type of error, slow, bloated, dead community and overly complex to customize (and im a designer...) I look at others like zencart but seem kinda dated compared to magento, but are their any other solutions to replace magento thats better and with ...

Is there a Cart/Catalog app out there that isnt a full site?

Every solution i come across seems to be a complete store with far too many options and too much functionality. I can write my own cart to get the minimal functionality i need out of the frontend, im just trying to cut out the time writing a complex backend. What im really looking for is something that offers the backend functionality ...

How Do I Setup Multiple Stores Using Magento Like Their Demo?

I'm playing with Magento and I figured out how to create multiple websites and stores and store views, but when I go back to the home page it certainly doesn't look as cool as the Magento Demo (http://www.magento-mall.com/). Are the tabs something they did in the HTML and the store domains are really masking to the ugly store URL? Examp...

Magento - Buy 2 items get % discount

Hi there, I'm trying to set up a price rule in Magento so that users get 15% off for every 2 items they add to their shopping cart in Magento. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks. ...

Would anybody mind taking a look at my XML structure?

I am relatively new to this but I was hoping somebody could offer up a good critique of this XML structure I put together. I am not looking for anything in depth but rather if somebody notices anything inherently wrong with the structure (or any tips to make it better) I'd greatly appreciate it. We have a large amount of products that ...

adding additional items in a ecommerce application to save in session.

hi, i want to use this site as a reference to explain what im trying to figure out. http://www.shop-script.com/demo/store/index.php?lang=eng if you select a product then enter a value higher than 1 for the quantity of a product that you want then press add to cart. i know that this information goes into a session but how is it added? ...

Unable to login magento administration

Hi Everybody, I have just installed Magento on Windows using WAMP. Installation was successfull without any errors or warnings. When i browse administration page, i can see login screen. After entering the correct credentials it is not displaying me the Dashboard/Control Panel. Its displaying the same login page. If i enter wrong c...

How many developers does it take to build a site like eBay today from scratch?

And how long would it take to complete (minus the graphics polishing)? Please assume it's being built in PHP. (Any compelling reason not to go with PHP?) Many thanks, in advance! ...