ecommerce

References on best practices for registration keys/access codes format

I am developing an online site to which access will be sold at college bookstores. Students will purchase a card at the bookstore with an access code that they may then use to register online at our site. I want to make the code as user friendly as possible. I personally hate registering for a product and having to type in a registrat...

Are there any good e-commerce extensions/plugins for Umbraco?

I'm working on a project that will use Umbraco for CMS capability, but also has a fairly simple ecommerce requirement. I'm aware of Commerce4Umbraco, are there others? Or, should I look elsewhere for simple e-commerce functionality. Would be nice to use the same platform for CMS and e-commerce... stuck with Umbraco though. ...

Easiest way to sell stuff and track inventory.

Hi, on my website I sell unique items. I have programmed it so that on the selling page, users can select any amount of these items, and it calculates the cost. The key is that I only have 1 of each of these items. So I need the shopping cart system to not allow the payment to go through unless it is available. I've been searching for a...

Drupal 5: Flag module - display user flagged items in a block

I am aiming to get a list of the current user's flagged items in a block which I can use in my node.tpl.php The functionality required is a "comparison list" of products. Can anyone with experience of the flag module in D5 point me in the right direction? I essentially want to be able to say: <?php print $all_current_user_flags ?> Is...

Where is the documentation for writing Magento Extensions?

I have looked and looked on their website, I have tried many google searches, but I can't find a link to documentation on how to write extensions for the Magneto ECommerce software. I want to write a simple payment gateway which I'm more than capable of doing if I could find basic documentation. Any ideas? ...

Recommended Carts for Rails e-commerce app.

All, I'm building a Rails app, using Active Merchant to interface to PayPal website pro. I'm wondering if I should develop the cart myself, or if there is a good off-the-shelf cart that people can recommend. Googling reveals a few options such as http://www.ecompages.com/ .. too young?, substruct (http://code.google.com/p/substruct/) ...

What is the best hosted E-commerce solution?

plus if it allows field customization on the shopping cart forms, calling web services, integration with sales force etc. ...

Drupal and Ubercart - buy products including and excluding tax

I am developing an e-commerce site for use in the UK, and have been required to let the user buy products either with or without tax included. I have slightly modified the AAC module to show prices either including or excluding VAT depending on a cookie which is set via a "view prices including/excluding" link, but of course whenever a...

Setting Up ECommerce in ASP.NET

I'm an ECommerce newbie. I'm looking for an exceptional guide for setting up casual ECom (or plugging it into an exsiting site) for ASP.NET, complete with recommended components for a product catalog/shopping cart/merchant account and any anything else I might need. I don't have a large product inventory (less than 50) and don't plan on...

Can I deliver protected video content from the Amazon S3 service

Revision on initial post: I'm looking to deliver video content after a purchase of content is complete. Here are my requirements I need to protect content until purchase exists I want to use the Amazon S3 service because it is cost effective So that is about it, as I said before I would most likely use PHP to call the file from the ...

CMS + Ecommerce - Which opensource program is best?

We have to develop an Ecommerce site with 20+ pages of static content which needs a CMS and a store or 30+ products. We use Magento or Cubecart for Ecommerce and Wordpress or Joomla for CMS sites. Which has the best of both worlds - a good CMS with Store management? I am not sure if a Wordpress CMS site with an Shopping cart plugin wi...

Market Places to sell your works

What are some online market places that i can sell my works online? for example here are some i know: - Theme Forest: for HTML/CSS/CMS Templates - Flash Den: for Flash components, website templates etc - Envato Marketplaces say i have maybe a Windows app i want to put up or something? or maybe something similar like Silverlight apps e...

Is aliasing methods frowned upon?

I'm developing an online store, and the customer needs the ability to delete an order and have its products automatically restocked (e.g., for test orders). Here's my first try at implementing this: class Order < ActiveRecord::Base def destroy_and_restock restock_products destroy end protected def restock_products ...

How to change the position of module of magento cart???

How i change the position of module of magento cart??? ...

How to swap product image that is already in cart depending on selected product option?

Hi everyone, recently I was needed to enhance Magento (1.3.1) user interface. Particularly add a product image switcher (following http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/create-a-color-switcher-in-magento/). The results: - image switcher works as expected, which is fine. The problem: - The product itself could hold as much as 15 or 20 col...

Open source e-commerce customs information API?

International e-commerce is very difficult because each country has a web of customs/tariffs laws and procedures - there is no central repo of up-to-date data? (or is there I just don't know about) anyone interested in setting up an open-source API, that could give stores the ability to plugin and give customers the info they need, ba...

WorldPay Integration

Hi I have been asked to set up a demo site which calls out to WorldPay to authorise transactions. We won't have a MerchantID or anything like that yet, is there a dummy service that you can call that is either on the internet at-large, or is downloadable and you can install locally? I've obviously had a look around and so far come u...

how to change theme of magento e commerce ??

how to change theme of magento e commerce ?? ...

What does eCommerce programming involve?

I'm trying to land my first programming-related job, and I found a website for a company which is accepting resumes for an eCommerce development position. This is the requirements they listed: To be proficient in: HTML (hand-coded) CSS PHP Javascript MySQL Preferred skills: PEARL Linux The fact that they (unless they're actuall...

How do I use mini login in header of magento?

How do I use mini login in header of magento? I'd also like the login form to be disabled after login. ...