I'm trying to do a site that can host multiple storefronts off of one database for "branding" purposes, but everything I've come across either A) forces you to use their entire solution as-is unless you want to do a rewrite of most of their logic, or B) thinks that "multiple stores" always means "different items in each store" when I wan...
I was thinking of throwing together a quick PHP or Django site for independently selling some "downloadable" content (music/mp3's) to which I am the artist/rights-holder. I began to wonder if there are already some decent best-practices on how to handle the downloads - like how long a link should last for a user, the process of allowin...
I have currently working on a desktop application which I intend to make available for purchase. Are there any free or cost effective services/websites which I can use to sell my software and collect payment? ...
Hi, I am planning a high performance e-commerce project in asp.net and need help in selecting the optimal data retrieval model for the product catalog. Some details, - products in 10-20 categories- 1000-5000 products in every category - products listed with name, price, brand and image, 15-40 on every page - products needs to be listed ...
Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/409026/software-marketplace I'm interested in selling software (mostly enterprisey libraries) online but I'm not interested in handling the money/shopping cart/etc so I'm on the lookout for a third party that can handle all my payments/downloads for a fee (a bit like Google Ads, but for so...
How would I programmatically connect to an existing back-end system of a restaurant using say Micros POS, with a web app built with .Net and C#. Thanks. Update: Sorry for the ambiguity but I'd like to set up an online ordering system that takes users' orders and forward to a restaurant's back-end system to be processed and printed in th...
Any online tool/service that tells you what sites are powered by? Web Frameworks Multimedia platforms JavaScript libraries eCommerce Features ...
I am looking for a good ecommerce CMS. I need to be able to sell services and products, it must be open source that it can be customized wherever needed. I am very familiar with PHP and Mysql, and somewhat familiar with python and ruby, so a PHP solution would be preffered. ...
The issue I have is as follows: My company's supplier gives us an Access database (which I import into SQL Server) containing their product information (the alternative is to use XML), and I'm trying to massage this into a more usable format for use in an e-commerce website. The problem I run into, and maybe I'm just not thinking clear...
[update] I've accepted an answer, as lc deserves the bounty due to the well thought-out answer, but sadly, I believe we're stuck with our original worst case scenario: CAPTCHA everyone on purchase attempts of the crap. Short explanation: caching / web farms make it impossible for us to actually track hits, and any workaround (sending ...
I'd like to get a list of random products from the same category as the current product for displaying within the product view - so far all I've dug up is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/272818/magento-products-by-categories Does anyone know how to do this? ...
Hi I'm looking to write a some code that can integrate with some of the major online processors. This will be a basic bit of code that depending on a condition will affect the sub-total on check out. I understand that I may have to code it differently for each payment process but is this possible generally speaking? I want to provide t...
Hi, I have developed a business index which combines ecommerce websites.(in asp.net2.0+c#) I'm looking for an in-site search engine that already handles issues like indexing, speed and quality. Are there any famous solutions doing such? I need the search results to be customized on my design, so google search engine isn't an option. ...
What is the impact on SEO for an e commerce site the displays products/items information driven from a database (versus each product having it's own HTML page). Will the SE find the item information ? If not, how do you overcome this issue ? ...
Hi When dealing with an eCommerce transaction that has just completed, is there a standardized way to access the values in a confirmation page or does it depend greatly upon the implementation. I'm trying to build a shopping cart add-on that will grab the transaction value and confirmation id from any given eCommerce store and send the...
Hi, In magento, I have SEO url rewriting enabled, and it is working fine - apart from: tags (showing as site/tag/product/list/tagId/1/) reviews (showing as, for example site/review/product/list/id/1/) RSS feeds (showing as site/rss/catalog/category/cid/3/sid/1/) How come this is not SEO’d? and what will be the solution for this issu...
Ok so here's the story.. I have a friend who in his spare time wanted to learn a new language (F#). So what he did was he grabbed a book and wrote a tool which he then released to his teammates. He got plenty of good feedback and encouragement from it. Eventually he released it as an open source. And it was well received. It is now ...
I'm building a marketplace application that uses PayPal Express. I've got a form for sellers to input their PayPal API credentials, but I need a way to validate them by making some sort of call to PayPal. I'm using the PaypalExpressGateway in ActiveMerchant, and I don't see anything other than the standard purchase controls. Is there ...
I want to build a shop in which the products have a little wizard through which the price then is determined. In this case I'm talking about printing products. So for (a little) example when you come to the shop and want to print a business card, you get to decide if you want to print black and white or in color, if you want to choose t...
I am developing e-commerce project on Asp.Net 3.5 with C#. I am using 3 tiers (Data + Business + UI) structure to reach the data from database (Msql 2005). There are stored procedures and everything going on from them.(CRUD methods) There is a performance issue here, project is running so slowly. I couldn't find any problem in transact...