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E-Commerce / Shopping Cart with Multiple Ship Methods per Order

Does anyone know of an e-commerce / cart solution which allows multiple shipping addresses per order, as well as multiple shipping methods per order? For example, customer adds 2 of Product A to their cart and upon checkout wants one to ship to Colorado via UPS ground and one to ship to California via UPS second day air. Open Source ...

Question about building a shopping cart/checkout with Rails

I just picked up Agile Web Development with Rails 3rd Ed., and I'm going thru the Depot Application chapters, and I have a question about Product/Item options- If I wanted to modify the product catalog and store so that products could have options (size, color, whatever), where/how would I do that? Let's say I'm selling t-shirts, and t...

Postage Calculator for PHP

Could anyone point me in the right direction for a shipping calculator? I would like something simple and I don't want to sign up for too much stuff. EDIT: I do not want to deal with all the registering and stuff the API would require... I think I may just try to make one using the zone charts USPS provides. ...

What are the legal ways to get textbooks/programming books in PDF only, with an option to always download it again?

By searching for ebooks, one can usually find textbooks for free, but what options are they for those who want to do so legally? What about old books that are still in print? I like to have electronic versions of textbooks. It doesn't seem reasonable to manually scan big tomes! ...

Mysql Database Design A Complex Shopping Catalogue Part

Hello All. I want to make an anouncement system. But i messed the database design part. The system will have unlimited categories and their items so every category will has strange properties for example car has a model, trade, manufacture date, color, gear type. . . and more another example Real Estate has a door count, gardened, du...

how do I get ALL of my product items to show up on the homepage of magento 1.3.2?

I installed Magento v1.3.2.3 and added most of my product inventory. However, I can only get 5 items to display on the homepage. I need all my products to show up there. I have been searching the net for about 3 days and still havent found the answer. Please help. This is currently the code I am using. {{block type="catalog/product_n...

Add To Basket Script - some design help, please

I'm writing a script to let users place items in their baskets. It is very complex so far, and I would like to talk it through with someone to see if they can suggest better design or tidy the current design up. Here is the code I have, which doesn't work very well (i.e. has errors that I haven't yet resolved), with comments to show my i...

php shopping cart need advice

I am shopping for a shopping cart(no pun intended), few requirements: php written supports several method payments: visa, mastercard, paypal easy integration well tested and stable html could be edited to make it look like a part of web site what are the big ones out there to use? ...

Shopping cart with asp.net and SQL Server reserve items

Hey everyone, Question has been asked with no answers over a month ago: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1806739/shopping-cart-reserve-product/2070884#2070884 Anyway, basically I have a shopping cart for my site in ASP.NET using SQL Server. When a user adds an item to the shopping cart I need to set a value in the product table to re...

E-commerce packages vs bespoke build?

I am looking at taking on a e-commerce site, and what was wondering what everyone thoughts on e-commerce package vs bespoke solutions are, is it beneficial to just use a 'plug+play' system like osCommerce, or maybe using something a bit more robust but with a fee and use something like Magneto? Or would it be better for just to site do...

Using Magento with a simple one-product site

What's the best way to integrate Magento with a simple HTML-based single product site? I envision installing Magento, and then the existing site just "hooks" into Magento versus using the entire Magento framwork, etc. I don't want to use Magento as a "CMS" I just want to use it to handle the order processing. Any tips or suggestions o...

Choose Alternate Products, add on Free Products, Addendum Products in Ubercart ?

Thanks for considering my question. I have Ubercart 2.x running on Drupal 6.x. I would like to show alternate products when a user is on the checkout page. This can be done through Views/Panels, yes? However, the need is that when a customer buys a product, they also need to choose an alternate in case there is a problem. "Customers wo...

Using Google Checkout, can I add items to the cart with text links?

Demo here using buttons http://checkout.google.com/seller/gsc/v2/demo/index.html I want to use, if possible text links in place of input buttons. Thanks everyone! ...

Ecommerce::Shopping cart::Where should i store shopping cart data in session or in database

Where should I store shopping cart data in session or in database? (I think in amazon.com shopping cart after user logout and after month login again his orders that he choose in shopping cart saved) Thanks, Yosef ...

Is it possible to make a shopping cart persistent in Ubercart

I would like users to be able to have persistent shopping carts. In other words, unless they check out the shopping cart explicitly the shopping cart with the same items should be available the next time they visit the site. Obviously this would be through the use of a cookie... Is this possible in Drupal? ...

UX: HTTPS and "Lock" for Shopping SItes

Our geeky back-end developer is trying to tell us that we really don't need to have the whole logged-in section of our shopping site be "https" with the browser "lock". He just wants to put the credit card fields in an https frame (which customers will not be able to see is secured). As far as we can tell, this is sheer UX lunacy that ...

Building a simple cart using object orientated PHP

I've built basic shopping carts with PHP before but in an attempt to get my feet wet with OOP, I'd like to try using that method. I come from a design background but do understand some basics of OOP but would like to see a tutorial or something simple I could base this on. The site is small and the cart functionality required is very s...

Multiple items in a PHP shopping cart

I'm in the progress of making a shopping cart in PHP. To check if a user has selected multiple products, I put everything in an array ($contents). When I output it, I get something like "14,14,14,11,10". I'd like to have something like "3 x 14, 1 x 11, 1 x 10". What is the easiest way to do that? I really have no clue how to do it. This...

Basic Steps for creating a Shoping Cart Website

Hi, I want to create a shoping cart web site using .Net and C#. I am intermediate for C# and SQL Server. Have no idea as of on how to start with a Shoping cart website ,my sincere grattitude towards any usefull link or suggestions and help . Thanks, Subhen ...

PHP shopping cart

Hi there, I am designing a shopping cart for my company, and I have a dilemma: in a physical shop, sales taxes are calculated based on local ( state/province and city ) rates. online, Amazon calculates taxes based on amazon site you are connected to ( amazon.com applies US rates and amazon.ca applies Canadian rates). in other hand, Appl...