ecommerce

What is the proper way to develop a custom theme/template for Magento 1.4

I have recently started working on an eCommerce site for a company and they have selected Magento 1.4.0 to run their store. I have spent most of my PHP "career" working with various MVC frameworks (even Zend with Magento is supposed to be based on) but the complexity of Magento seems to be on another level with no seemingly good resource...

what's a good CMS for e-commerce ?

hi, what's a good cms for web shops ? I've always used Drupal so far, but I haven't ever developed webshops. I saw there are Magento and a Drupal module Ubecart. I actually would like to know a "known, easy to use webshop framework so I don't have to take care abuot security issues.. etc thanks ...

is there a multiple payment providers (paypal, ogone, ...) php module for use in a web app?

We are building an ecommerce app where we want our users to pick out a (any provider we can make compatible with our app) payment provider. Up to today, we only support paypal and we have implemented this rather manually. We are looking for some sort of a module (free or commercial) to easily plugin in more payment providers to let cust...

Changing the module that updates the currency rates in Prestashop

I am currently working on a Prestashop site. I included a new currency and then clicked on Update Currency Rate only for the system to set my new rate equal to the default currency rate. Is it possible to change the default currency converter that Prestashop is using to something that could accommodate my own currency ...

How much money an e-commerce is making

I am very curious to find out how much money an e-commerce company is making. Is there a way or ways to find this out (apart from techcrunch.com/) ? Thanks ...

Need an online customisable estore solution which can be integrated - any ideas?

Hi guys, I was looking through different online applications such as freshbooks and like how they have an api to allow for a certain degree of integration so you can use their application for invoicing instead of having to build your own invoicing system from scratch. I'm looking for an online shopping service - is there any such web ap...

MySQL Logic help

I have the following query which works great. I have 2 questions.... 1) Can I remove the inner join to order on the sub query and tie it back into the main query? 2) I need to factor in returns into all of the values generated. Price per item is ONLY stored in order_product. My table structure is as follows... order id | account...

eCommerce module for Cuyahoga

Where can we find other Cuyahoga modules which are not available with the CMS and Cuyahoga Site? specially eCommerce module? ...

Magento: Image not found when I change the values passed into the resize() function.

if I change this: $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(80, 80) to this: $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(180, 180) The image cannot be found, does anyone know why this is? ...

magento sales_order_place_after observer

I'm trying to write an observer that will export order data when an order is placed. I haven't written any modules before. Basing my implementation on this article: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/5_-_modules_and_development/0_-_module_development_in_magento/customizing_magento_using_event-observer_method so far I'm just trying to...

Platform for an Image eCommerce site?

Have looked at ImageFolio but it doesn't seem to be a complete match for what the client wants to achieve. At this photo ecommerce site: Member users upload and tag photos. Photos are reviewed by admins before going live. Buyers to purchase credits. Buyers use credits to download photos (instead of a shopping cart process) Buyers can t...

PrestaShop: Different types of users/clients

My scenario happens when registering a new user, or when doing an Express Checkout (w/o registration): How can I have two radio inputs - individual or person (legal entity) - and depending on this selection to show different fields to be checked out? ...

E-commerce site: ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC?

Is there any particular reason to use one over the other or it's all just a personal preference in the end? ...

When should the Ecommerce tracking take place?

Hi all, I am implementing Google analytics onto a ecommerce site. We are already tracking events like adding to cart, removing etc using the event tracking. I would like to know what is the ideal time to use the ecommerce tracking apis (addTrans & addItem). Here are my questions: Should I call these functions for each product being ...

Online payments with a bank in Costa Rica

Trying to setup a simple online store and I'm having trouble finding a way to accept payments into a costa rician bank. Can someone recommend me something that can accept payments in costa rica? ...

Are there any WordPress based e-commerce plugins that allow me to attach meta data per order?

I'm currently using WP Shopping Cart. Per order of a product, I need to attach some meta data such as size, frame options and frame colour. These different options change the price of the end product. My first idea was to simply add a new product via the database each time, adding the necessary info to the product description and chang...

Accepting payment best practices

Hi everyone, I am creating an ecommerce site that uses the payment gateway DPS. The payment gateway just takes a users details and returns whether the payment was successful or not. I am just wondering if anyone has any good resources for how to make a really robust payments page that can handle large volumes of transactions safely. Ar...

eCommerce systems with demo

I want to try some eCommerce systems to take look of how they implement the diffentent aspects Items publication Stock Sells Return Etc, Etc I'm developing a system myself (web application writen in PHP) and I have the feeling than I'm over complicating the process in several parts (particularly in the relations between products and ...

Please suggest ASP.NET e-commerce solutions

Please suggest ASP.NET e-commerce solutions (please mention other language tools too! like PHP etc..) ...

Is it better to store redundant information or join tables when necessary in MySQL?

I have an online shop where users can have little shops with their own products. Each of this products can have questions associated to it and the owner of the shop has the ability to answer those questions. This information is stored in 3 tables a "Questions"(QuestionID,ProductID,...) table, a "Products"(ProductID,ShopID,...) table and ...