ecommerce

How should I skim money off a transaction between 2 people on my site?

This is sort of not relevant to programming but I think it also is: MY site is being built around people selling products through the site and customers buying the product through it. I'll then shave a % off the top of the sale. As far as skimming a % of the sale off the top, what is the order of events that should take place to do tha...

Google Checkout API - Connect order with notification?

Using the Google Checkout XML API, is it possible to connect an order you send to Google Checkout to an order Google Checkout notifies you about? Right now, I can send an order to Google Checkout, and I can get notifications from Google that an order went through. But I don't see how to connect the two. I need this to connect orders to ...

I need a sample php credit card order form.

I have a simple online product that I'm selling. I need a credit card order form. I'm looking for a sample php based order form. A form that collects name, address, credit card, exp date, and cvv and validates that the fields (for example checks that the credit card number is in the correct format). Forget the payment gateway integrati...

Advices on creating a first e-Commerce application ?

I need to create a e-commerce application in PHP. As a first option I though to use Magento, that I already used one or two times in the past. But as the requirements are growing, I think Magento is not correct choice, there are too much options I don't need, and some options which are not available and/or some customization which will b...

Avoid race conditions in eCommerce scenarios

Hello, My client has a ecommerce website that sells electronics, and there has been situations where a product is sold more times than they have in their inventory. This is because if two users buy a product at the same time when there is only one product left in stock, one session does not finish registering the product as sold out bef...

does both google checkout and paypal return a transaction id?

once the user has paid using either google checkout or paypal, do you get a response back with the transaction id? can you then use their api to pull details on the transaction later on for reports? ...

Event Registration

How can I create a site like http://www.eventbrite.com/ in drupal. If its not possible in drupal what should I probably use. More specifics -- Users can add their own events, add pricing. Out of that pricing the website can keep a certain % say 5%, when users purchase tickets. The commission can be on per event basis and cannot be ch...

Open source cms ltr rtl?

There exist any open source cms rtl ltr with a front end to work on? I asked yesterday about this and got a great answer, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3392719/advice-on-css-and-html but, if I have to aply this and a lot of changes on my source, it's almost the same as starting the project from the beggining any suggestion on an op...

How much effort would it take to build a web store in ASP.NET MVC?

Another slightly non-technical question, but I couldn't decide whether to ask here or on Server Fault... I can't say I'm an MVC guru yet, but I've built several LOB applications so far in ASP.NET and WPF/Silverlight and am currently working on one in MVC 2, so I do know my way around for the most part. My concern is more about the accou...

Cannot add items to Magento cart

I'm going to lay this out as simply as I can while still telling all pertinent details. I'll list site details below: http:///www.bubblegenius.com (front page currently locked off) You can access the site inside and see exactly what's happening by going to http://www.bubblegenius.com/soap.html. A client of mine ran a Magento-run ecomme...

E-commerce for .NET

Hello everyone, I'm looking for a product (e-commerce platform?) that would allow recruiters to purchase entries in a job search website. The technical stack includes .NET 3.5 and an Oracle or SqlServer database There will be 8 different kind of advertisings and there is the possibility to choose certain parameters in order to person...

Coupons and discounts in e-commerce application

Hey! I've developed an e-commerce application, and now I'm adding support for coupons and discounts. I want your opinions on this one though, since it's trickier than I first expected. Where should I keep my logic for all different kinds of coupons? Say I have a coupon code giving me the offer "Buy 3 and get the cheapest for free" alo...

Simple online store

I don't want to use wordpress (with wp-ecommerce plugin) or other full-featured store scripts because my requirement is quite simple and limited: 2 product types: bags, tees 3 categories: classic, modern, special 3 sort options: by color, by category, by price Cart with PayPal as payment processor. Is there any lightweight (and open-s...

Looking for recommendations for a shopping cart control with paypal connection

I am looking for a nice control that allows me to have a shopping cart on my webpage. Requirements: - Easy to implement. I want to add items into the cart from everywhere. Like mycart.Add(new CartItem("Name", "Description", Price")) Implemented shopping cart overview with the ability to delete previous added items. Allows connection...

CSS doesn't load after migration of magento website

Hello friends, I migrated my magento website to a different server, following the steps described here. Everything went smoothly, except for the fact that when I load the page, the CSS won't load, and I just get the page in plain text. I used firebug and noticed that the path the system is using to get to the CSS file doesn't exist in ...

Further web development & recommended ecommerce website book?

Hi guys, I’m just graduating from a CS course and I’ve done xhtml, css, javascript and php (not in massive detail) but I really don’t know where I should go from there. I wanna learn .NET I think, what does that encompass? I’d like to work on my web development, can you guys recommend any books that for instance talk you through building...

Programming a Codeigniter Networking Site From Scratch

I have made a social networking site from scratch, but I am looking to develop a site much faster. Needs: 1. eCommerce 2. Profiles 3. Information "nodes" 4. Control over Ajax functions for all of this, maybe a simple API 5. Google Maps 6. Third party posting formats and content processing and display. User must be able to post nodes ...

how to store card information in authorize.net

Hi I am developing a php web site. I need Php code for authorize.net When i submit form credit card information should store in authorize.net. ...

How to gear towards scalability for a start up e-commerce portal?

I want to scale an e-commerce portal based on LAMP. Recently we've seen huge traffic surge. What would be steps (please mention in order) in scaling it: Should I consider moving onto Amazon EC2 or similar? what could be potential problems in switching servers? Do we need to redesign database? I read, Facebook switched to Cassandra fro...

eCommerce frameworks implemented over Spring

Hi We are evaluating ecommerce frameworks that are implemented using Spring. I found three frameworks FastSpring, ElasticPath and Broadleaf which use Spring. Are there any other frameworks? How do these frameworks compare in completeness of feature support for promotion, campaign management and personalization. regards Alen ...