People buy stuff in a web shop. I take their orders and save them to a database. For each ordered item, I need the quantity and the information about the item. At the very least, I'm going to need to save the current price and name of each item but I would really prefer to save everything. And here comes the question... What's the best...
I'm building a website, and installed Magento in the /shop/ subdirectory. I'd like to integrate the top categories into the menu of my non-Magento site, so you can navigate directly into the category. For this I need the category names and url's. Magento's categories are: Templates Color Theme General Other products I first needed...
I don't know if I'm thinking of this the right way, and perhaps somebody will set me straight. Let's say I have a models.py that contains this: class Order(models.Model): customer = models.foreignKey(Customer) total = models.charField(max_length=10) has_shipped = models.booleanField() class Product(models.Model): sku = models....
I have a customer who is interested in selling his set of tutorial screencasts, and he very much wants to do this using wordpress. Has anyone any experience in selling subscriptions to wordpress sites, or selling digital downloads using wordpress, and is there anything I need to consider that I might have missed? I'm currently lookin...
I'm looking for an e-commerce "platform" in Java or .NET that can satisfy the following requirements: Product / Service Management Customer Account Management Shopping Cart Checkout / Merchant Integration Localization (especially for currency) Coupons Multiple Storefronts Reporting Possible PayPal / Google Checkout Integration The go...
Im trying to access the Magento customer session in another part of my website. domain.com/shop/ <- Magento domain.com/test.php The shop itself works like a charm, however im trying to determine within test.php if a customer is logged in, so I can display his name with a link to his cart. Contents of test.php so far: <?php require_o...
What is the best way of implementing a checkout process that allows customers to place orders without first requiring registration on the site, and without requiring that users create an account during the checkout process. I was thinking of perhaps creating a anonymous customer entry which all orders not associated with a registered cu...
If I were to start an ecommerce store, which language would you suggest I start with? Python or PHP? And would it be wise to use Python for an ecommerce site in favor of PHP? PHP has lots of shopping carts, both open source and commercial. Is Python the future of Web Development ? Edit: I would like to clear out that i am not ask...
I am currently evaluating for an eCommerce project. Is there any good Python based webshop software. Are there any personal experiences people can share? Until now I have only found: http://www.satchmoproject.com/ Coming from the PHP world finding only ONE project seams akward to me. Does anybody have experience with Satchmo? Ar...
Guys, I want to build an e-commerce site on asp.net. My query is: when two users simultaneously buy something, how would the two records get inserted in my database? Would there be a lock? Can anyone explain how this would be or can be handled. Also, I want to handle peak traffic and also control the average data allotted to each user...
Can anyone recommend a method for selling concert tickets online? The shopping cart is relatively easy but we want to create a PDF that prints their information on the ticket and allows them to print. Any ideas? ...
Guys we are designing an e commerce web site using asp.net. we are using a bsic design and dont know if we can add something or shift onto a better version of asp or silver light etc. wud like ur suggestions and inputs. we are makin 3 main pages one for the login,another for the products and one for the payment.wheneva there is a purcha...
Hello Again my fellow programmers out there, I'm designing and programming from scratch a online shop. It has a Module to manage "Orders" that are recieved via the frontend. I'm needing to have a status to know whats happening with an order in s certain moment, let's say the statuses are: Pending Payment Confirmed - Awaiting shipment...
Hello All, I'm designing an online store myself from scratch and I' really missing some valuable rources about the common problems and solutions found in designing and implementing a s-shop/e-commerce system Do you know any valuable resource about this I could read (online/book, blogs,etc). Any recommendation? greetz Guillermo ...
Hi, noob question: I'm building a checkout system for an online commerce site. I'm getting the bug where clicking on the "place order" button multiple times will place the order multiple times. I have an idea to load between the button-click page and place-order page with a page that waits several seconds before launching using javascrip...
I am looking for recommendations for a db to use for a small commercial web store (about 10000 products, about 200 entries a day) written in RoR. Is sqlite3 sufficient for this or should I go for MySQL? How complicated is migration between these two at a later stage if required? ...
In Magento the default reports are very limiting. I have been trying to create custom reports that show more information. I have tried creating a module to recreate an existing report but am not having a lot of success. I know there is an easy way to change existing reports but it involves changing core file and wouldn't give the same f...
I'm adding multi-currency support to an e-commerce application. The way I approached the problem was to keep the application in it's base currency and have the template call a priceDisplay() function/plugin anytime it displays a price. So the template continues to receive prices in dollar amounts. The priceDisplay function correctly conv...
I have had a number of requests from clients wanting to take a customer's credit card number online and then process the payment in store at a POS of terminal. I'm wondering what the best method of doing this is. I don't want to store the credit card number on the server in plain text and I don't want to send an email with the number in...
Hi! Currently I have to think of a solution for generating and maintaining lots of static landing pages for a membership-only e-commerce site (e.g. we sell products X, Y and Z but only to our members and we want to make a (SEO-friendly) landing pages for each product). Each page would be almost unique in content and the meta data but th...