ecommerce

Technical issue surrounding asking for credit card BEFORE address?

I'm considering asking for credit card details BEFORE an address for a physical product with average purchase price between $10-$50 What might be the technical (or non technical) issues surrounding doing this? What comes to mind is : This seems a little non-standard from the users perspective We cant do address verification if we fin...

PayPal module in Joomla

Hi friends, I want to download a module or extension or component for Joomla to integrate with PayPal. I have tried a lot but I haven't found any. Can you help? ...

Storing credit card information with PayPal's 'Website Payments Pro'?

Hi there, I am developing an e-commerce website where some customers will be making frequent online purchases. With that said, I am trying to find a solution that will allow me to securely store credit card information, using Website Payments Pro, so customers do not need to re-enter credit card information every time that they make a p...

What best shopping cart application to use?

I am looking for a PHP based open source full featured shopping cart application which is easiest to learn and to theme.... I don't want to write my own because I'm concerned about the security and I don't really make very handy admins. Plus I have no experience with online selling and this is my first shot. I'm thinking between Magent...

Magento vs. CodeIgniter and writing from scratch

Hi, I need to develop an eCommerce website using PHP. I am not sure if to use Magento or use CodeIgniter and write the site basically from scratch. I have experience with CI and no experience with Magento. My questions regarding Magento: Performance: I read that it has performance issues. Is it the case for the latest version too...

Determine credit card type by number?

Can credit card type be determined solely from the credit card number? Is this recommended or always ask client for the type of credit card they're using? I googled about it and found this algorithm: http://cuinl.tripod.com/Tips/o-1.htm , is this reliable? Thanks ...

how do I process authorize.net payments without a card (using the "card not present" test account)

the card_num field is required...but all I have is a Card NoT present testing account...now how exactly do I go about that? ...

How to Display module only front page in joomla 1.5.9?

I want to Display module only front page in joomla 1.5.9? in inner page it willl be invisible? ...

Most suitable eCommerce system to build a rental component onto

I'm just looking for some advice on this - I've advertised on several service marketplaces but all I'm get is vague promises to create 'much suitable commerce sites to your specifications' In essence I need a site which has the standard commerce features, but onto which I will need to add the features required to run a book rental servi...

Magento - Retrieve products with a specific attribute value

In my block code I am trying to programatically retrieve a list of products that have a attribute with a specific value. Alternately if that is not possible how would one retrieve all products then filter them to just list the products with a specific attribute? ...

Tax Engine Examples

We create point of sale software for the mac, and are looking to revamp our tax engine. It's pretty simple now, with taxes consisting of a name, code and rate that can be applied to every product individually. While this is good enough for some people, we've had lots of requests to handle more advanced situations. Some examples are US Ci...

Best CMS for a T-Shirt catalog website

Hi my friend who's studying CSS wants to make a simple t-shirt catalog website. He also wants to include e-commerece in the future. What's an easy to learn CMS--preferrably in PHP--do you guys suggest for him? ...

Shopping cart and stock management

I am currently building an ecommerce site with PHP/MySQL. Recently, I have been working on the Shopping Cart integration. The client wanted to ensure that stock was available to potential buyers, so I created a stock management system. The shopping cart works as follows: Client adds a quantity of an item to his cart. Item quantity ...

Authorize.net, Paypal or Google Checkout, which one should I go with ?

which payment gateway should I choose from among Authorize.net, PayPal & Google Checkout? Is there anything wrong if I provide all ? I'm planning for express checkout methods in all the three services, the direct credit card accepting service. ...

Securing a PHP Product - btcompiler and license keys?

Multi Part Question: I am developing a php app that I plan to sell and distribute. I want to control who has access to the apps main functions and installation though some sort of call to my server, which would check to see if the script's install location (example.com) is in a database, maybe even check for a license key of some sort. ...

osCommerce Product state updater

Hi to all, Does anybody know is there any tool that allows to automatically update products' prices and quantities saved in osCommerce DB from table-prices in Excel format? Thanks in advance ...

Magento or Prestashop, which is better?

I want to find an ecommerce solution for my little shop. My friend tells me that Prestashop is very easy to use and develop modules for, but some say Magento is better. Can anybody tell me which is better for developing modules and why? Thank you. ...

Ecommerce Shopping Carts - Is there a gold standard?

Is there a gold standard among ecommerce shopping cart packages? I would prefer a .NET solution, but any suggestions are appreciated. I have been looking at ablecommerce and aspdotnetstorefront specifically, but both seem to have mixed reviews. Edit: To elaborate on my question, I am looking for a software package that is customizab...

How to add "Upgrades" entity to product-order database design?

I'm working on a database design for an e-commerce web application. For this question I am simplifying the design and only showing the parts that are relevant to my question. My things of interest (entities) in this scenario are Products, Upgrades, and Orders. The Products and Orders are related in a typical fashion for this type of da...

integration of bv commerce shopping cart with Microsoft Dynamics RMS?

I have a BVCommerce website, and i wish to integrate it into my retail locations Inventory system (Microsoft RMS: http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/rms/default.mspx) The inventory software is already managing inventory for multiple locations. our task would be to configure the store (very possibly via custom code engineering) to pull th...