Basic question about a good way of organizing data in a database. Let's say I have a search site for multiple stores. Each store has a number of products. What is the best way of organizing price and inventory data? I see two ways of doing this: a table for every store , with the first column or two identifying a product, a column for ...
I need to build web application where users can sell goods. Each user should be able to get money directly on his PayPal account. Can you suggest which PayPal service/payment method (or other payment system) it is better/safely to use in this case? Thanks in advance ...
I am one of the web developers for a small-but-growing e-commerce site. It is now getting about 150 orders per day, and a lot more on Cyber Monday. This is enough volume so that the small fraction of users who have hard-to-reproduce problems are causing significant heacache. My theory is that one of more of the following are true: T...
Hi Guys How or when the amount get deducted or transferred from the buyers paypal account to the shop owner's account via Virtuemart in Joomla 1.5? I created the paypal sandbox test account but doesn't seems to deduct the amount of item(s) I bought? If there's anything unclear please let me so I can explain further. Thanking you in ad...
I want an additional column in the Order(s) Grid for Admin. Assuming its Customer Group Id. My app/etc/modules/MyProject_Adminhtml looks like: <?xml version="1.0"?> <config> <modules> <MyProject_Adminhtml> <active>true</active> <codePool>local</codePool> <depends> <Mage_S...
I just wanted to run this by other heads to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious. I am using Payflow Link, which handles all the credit card nastiness of ecommerce transactions. However, you pass the total amount of the transaction to PayPal over POST variables - which seems like a potential security hole: A malicious user coul...
Hi all. There are two good open source python e-commerce solutions exist: Satchmo and LFS. But I can't find any theme for them. Does at least one open source theme for them exist? There are thousands themes for Magento, osCommerce, OpenCart, but zero themes for Satchmo. Thanks. ...
Hi, I'd like to host a video on s3. I would like to 'embed' it in a page within my site, like: http://example.com/demo.html <video>the video</video> I'm not sure how to embed a video player and point it to the url hosted at s3, I've only used the youtube api player for that, but this is probably possible. The issue I'd like to kn...
Let me explain what I mean in my title. Let's say, that for example I'm creating a small e-commerce system for one web shop/catalog. There's a possibility for customers to choose, do they wish to receive newsletters or not. If they do, then logically thinking the newsletters should be send immediately as the newsletter is formed and read...
Hello, I am working on an e-commerce website (directing) where the inventory database needs to be fed from the POS database. The current one that company has was built with lotus (Customized) about 10 years ago and not sure if is just the matter of upgrading this POS being done in lotus and build something on the middle that can synchr...
A client's site is running DigiSHOP. We recently started getting duplicate order emails. The orders themselves are not duplicated, but we are receiving some order emails 2-5 times. This only seems to be happening with Paypal orders, but I have no idea why. SumEffect (DigiSHOP creators) and the hosting company have been no help. My next s...
When using the Ecommerce methods in Google Analytics do you also make calls to the normal tracking methods as well? When we first added GA too our site a few years ago we left it off of the sales pages as we wanted to be careful about what information might be sent to Google. But now that I'm adding Ecommerce tracking to these pages I'm...
Hi all, I have a site build which would seem to suit Magento up to a point, but the client doesn't actually want to sell anything - at the end of the process of choosing a product the user would simply be redirected to another site to complete the transaction (or not). I would like to avoid just hacking these features out of Magento en...
Hi Guys, Is anyone having any experience with any eCommerce application where you have calculated shipping rate on fly. I am in particular referring to Australia Post service. Could you please guide me in right direction. I am thinking of using Provider pattern by which I can plugin any shipping provider according to user's profile. E...
What is the general pattern or approach to managing transactions in a web-based e-commerce system? How do you handle the situation where more than one user tries to buy the last item, for example? ...
I am planning to create an ecommerce application which would host a lot of products (more than 100) and expectedly would have good number of user hits/transactions on a daily basis. My major requirements from both functional and technical point of view are: It should be easily extensible/modifiable/maintainable. Usability would be the ...
We're using Google Analytics to track ecommerce transactions on our website ( _trackTrans() ). However, We often have cases where the final value of an order is not known until well after the user has left the site. It would be nice to be able to update the transaction items / amounts in an offline process we could run periodically. ...
After lots of research, I'm considering using Wordpress and either the WP e-commerce plugin or the Shopp plugin. We'll also integrate with PayPal to do the actual credit card transaction. The products that we will be selling will be a combination of regular products and "odd" products that have crazy dimensions and weights. Whenever one...
I have been tasked with selling made-to-order products online. We have a web-based product configurator and order processing system set up that produces prices, interfaces with our inventory system, etc. I've reviewed Magento and Ubercart and they appear to do too much; the management perceives integrating something like that as an unne...
Hello, I'm going to write an ASP.NET MVC 2 application using Domain Driven Design. I'm trying to figure out how to separate the Admin from the store front. I could create 2 MVC projects, but regarding the services for them, should they be in separate projects as well or could I use the CatalogManager, for example, for both, Admin and the...