ecommerce

What's the easiest, cheapest solution to build a E-Commerce website

It is for a small business, looking for the best solution... Did a search and only came up with very specific question related to ecommerce ...

Subscription Management with Merchant Account via API

I'm researching gateways/vendors that provide the ability to create subscription based transitions for merchant accounts. In other words, I want to allow customers to signup for a subscription for a website service that charges once a month. Authorize.Net has an ARB (Automated Recurring Billing) Module. The cost is cheap, $10 a month f...

Recommend PHP or Java Opensource E-Commerce solution

A friend of mine was about to be scammed by a bunch of pseudo-programers that intended to sell him a opensource shopping cart as if it was developed by them. Luckly he was smart enough to ask his geek friends first. Now I'm committed to help him with this endeavor. But to be honest Im more into custom software development that into impl...

Handling the category / sub category display for an online shop front.

We are developing an online shopfront. It is expected to have any level of category / sub category hierarchy. Suppose the main category is "A". It has sub category as "B". "B" has a sub category as "C" and so on. Now as a seller I want to add my product into the last level. What can be the easiest way to handle this scenario from the u...

Best way to generate order numbers for an online store?

Every order in my online store has a user-facing order number. I'm wondering the best way to generate them. Criteria include: Short Easy to say over the phone (e.g., "m" and "n" are ambiguous) Unique Checksum (overkill? Useful?) Edit: Doesn't reveal how many total orders there have been (a customer might find it unnerving to make your ...

Is an autocomplete text box for entering addresses a good idea?

Entering my address via a traditional form drives me crazy: Why do I have to enter my city, state, and zip code when my city and state can be inferred from my zip code? Choosing your state from a dropdown list is a pain in the ass -- often you can't tab into it, you have to use the mouse, etc. Because I find this process so repulsi...

Ecommerce Payout - how do I pay users?

I'm looking for a way to pay users on my website. Paypal and Google Checkout are obvious solutions for getting users to pay you, but are there any solutions for you paying users? If that's not clear, here's a hypothetical situation: Suppose we have a website where users login. Their job is to tag photos with appropriate text. For every ...

Asp.net MVC eCommerce app - Add To Cart implementation

Let say I am rendering list of products with Add To Cart link / button next to each. I also have a CartController with AddToCart Action that accept a parameter of Product type. After product is added to cart user should stay on the same page (Product list) - not to be redirected to Cart or something. I am rendering Cart summary parti...

Which Rails plugins should I be using?

Hi Stack Overflow, I learnt rails a couple of years ago out of interest, but now I'm coming back to it because I want to try and build a simple pay-to-advertise niche job site with a few bells and whistles. Many of the rails books I learnt from gave examples of how to build a shopping cart or user authentication system, but looking arou...

Membership products data schema

I'm trying to model my organization's membership products for accepting and recording membership purchases in our business database. Someday we hope the purchases will be made online and automatically put into the business database. The problem is that our membership products are all over the place. We have 4 types of organizations th...

Best practices for implementing a Lucene search in asp.net eCommerce site

I've been tasked with seeting up a search service on an eCommerce site. Currently, it uses full text indexing on sql server, which isn't ideal, as it's slow, and not all that flexible. How would you suggest i approach changing this over to lucene? By that, i mean, how would i initially load all the data into the indexes, and how would i...

ecommerce: Is is OK to pass an Order Id through a querystring?

Hi guys, We're deving a website that's designed to handle online payments. We were wondering, is it OK to pass an Order / Transaction Id through the querystring whilst in the process of making a payment? We'd rather not store this Id in a session variable because of server overhead, so we were thinking storing it in the querystring woul...

Selling Monthly Online Services

Hi Everyone: I am wondering if anyone knows of a system (open source or otherwise) that will allow my clients to sell their online services per month/year/etc. In other words, the user buys a month subscription, can log in, and access anything that my clients choose for them to see. Thanks for any help. ...

A bit more complex e-commerce cart

I have been asked to develop a shopping cart for a client who wants the ability to have the following in the checkout process: personal order and a gift order (split order/multiple shipping addresses) order as a gift (bill me but send to someone else) continuous order (send me the same order every month) I have looked into complete...

Test refunds on Authorize.net using a test account?

I am developing a website that uses Authorize.net but I am currently using a test account. To test a refund, it requires a unique transaction ID, but since I am only using a test account, it does not return a unique transaction ID when you make a test transaction (always 2147483647). Is there another way for this to work? I need to see i...

Flexible eCommerce and social networking solution

Hey there! Im currently developing website that will contain e-commerce part and social networking part. Social networking part might have following options: Users Edit profile Upload photos / videos Manage friends Select favorite product (+review) Groups Forums Videos Photos So, basically it is a merge of regular ecommerce store...

PHP and online payments

Is there any php tutorials online that can show me how to build my own php shopping cart and payment system for paying for digital goods without having to use PayPal or any other online payment system. So basically what I'm trying to say I guess is there a way that I can build my own payment service using PHP? ...

What's the best jQuery product zoom plugin?

I'm not much of a frontend guy, just learning jQuery, so any help is appreciated. What's the easiest, most stable jQuery zoom plugin? I have a regular size product image and a detailed image. I need to be able to zoom in somehow. Which would you recommend? ...

tips on building my first ecommerce site

I've just taken on a client who needs a subscription based ecommerce site created using ProductCart software. I'm pretty handy with PHP so I should be able to figure out the software. My question is - what are some things i should be aware of when creating a subscription based ecommerce site? What types of questions should I be asking th...

Help with product downloads in osCommerce

Hello, Can anyone help me with creating product downloads in osCommerce? I have created the product and am looking in the product attributes section to add the download to it. The problem is I can't seem to find where to put the downloaded product and how to select is as the relevant download for each product. Can anyone help please? T...