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#1 2007-07-06 00:17:20
- speedking
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Textpattern and Shopping Cart
Hello all,
What have people been using when wanting to integrate a shopping cart system with textpattern?
The plugin over at http://homeplatewp.com/TextCommerce/ looks very promising as it beats messing around with Zen Cart for days and days!
There is not a stable release out at the moment and thus am seeking advice for a design/user friendly solution.
I want PayPal Pro to handle payments because I hate it when customers of shopping sites are forced to enter details in a ‘PayPal’ browser window that appears externally using the standard account.
I want to integrate the shopping cart into a textpattern site I am creating that has a blog, image galleries etc and thus want the look and the feel to be the same and/or similar. It will be accessible via the navigation menu.
Thanks,
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Re: Textpattern and Shopping Cart
Walker wrote:
Googlecheckout ftw!
they really need a canadian version already :(
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#4 2007-07-06 06:08:41
- FireFusion
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Re: Textpattern and Shopping Cart
Mal’s e is a very popular shopping cart that integrated well with Textpattern (hint: use custom fields to make the buttons). I’ve used it for a few sites and it’s great, plus it’s FREE!
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#5 2007-07-06 14:14:40
- speedking
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Re: Textpattern and Shopping Cart
Thanks for the replies but both Google Checkout and Mal’s e-commerce force the customer to go to another browser window to make the payment.
The integration into the shopping section of the site being made is therefore broken. I want a process where everything is done on the same site.
The only thing I can think of now is to skin CubeCart (http://www.cubecart.com/site/home/) or Avactis (http://www.avactis.com/) to match the Textpattern site being made.
Thanks,
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If you think about skinning, then also check out Shopify. It looks great.
…Prrrrrrrr…
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Shopify is a small, hosted service. Bad, very bad idea in this area.
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#8 2007-07-07 16:00:44
- SEF
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Re: Textpattern and Shopping Cart
I’ve not used it with txp, but I can see how it would work well – jshop it’s really easy to put together a ecommerce site around your own design (and code) and has lots of features.
SEF
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#9 2007-07-11 13:56:00
- speedking
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Re: Textpattern and Shopping Cart
Thanks for all your replies.
I have been messing around with CubeCart (http://www.cubecart.com/site/home/) and have begun to skin it to look like my textpattern site.
Until some stable plugin is released I think this maybe the best option!
Thanks,
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#10 2007-07-11 15:06:59
- EddieG5
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Re: Textpattern and Shopping Cart
Jeremie wrote:
Shopify is a small, hosted service. Bad, very bad idea in this area.
Why is this a bad idea? I was about to utilize them … can you explain why I should avoid?
Thanks, Jeremie!
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Because you wouldn’t have control over your shop, at all. You don’t know who they work, what is their set-up, what is their commercial and legal set-up and way of functioning, how they will manage your data and the data of your customers, and so on.
If you want to open a small e-shop, to sell… i don’t know… one small item per week, like a mini, micro, nano hobby on the side… ok it’s fine.
But anything more, you will end up with troubles.
- What if they have a breach of security (and like every proprietary, commercial set-up, don’t warn anyone truthfully and in time about it) and you personal data are exposed? Or the data of your clients? You can very much be liable for that.
- If something like this goes horribly wrong, they won’t answer for it; not without (probably international—) legal action on your part, requiring a serious legal budget.
- There is no data format standard, and they don’t give you access to data. Meaning, you can’t leave them, without recreating everything in your new shop (client list, product list, and forget about client individual preference or history) by hand.
- We have zero visibility on their service. What’s the real, practical uptime? Who is certifying it? And what about service speed?
Basically you don’t know the service itself (and even more, you can’t know it) and you’re locking a business (or a money hobby) into a proprietary solution from a small provider.
I can understand – to a point- that someone would accept to lock himself, to tied himself to Google, or Ebay, or Microsoft, or Sun for a small business because (and only if) all of the alternatives are less cost efficient, and the cost of flying solo after a while won’t get the business down. Because these companies won’t go anywhere soon, and have the means of doing good if they want to (if they want to is another debate, I wouldn’t trust my whole business purely on any of them myself but…).
Shopify (or any other like it, I don’t have anything against this one specifically) could very well be run in a moist underground garage on old cranked up Dell server for what we know. And when you will be in, you’ll be in… no escape.
Myself (and yes I’m working in a small business plan for an e-shop these weeks/months) I would like for an e-shop what I have with web sites, forums, email, internet domain, etc. Using somewhat standardized solution, renting or buying a place to host those solutions. If I’m not satisfy with the host, I can simply change it. If I’m not satisfy with the solution, I can hire a developer to make it satisfying.
The trouble is, ecommerce doesn’t have an equivalent of a Textpattern CMS, or Wordpress blog, or PunBB forum, or Mediawiki wiki, or ezlmn mailing list. Open source ecommerce is, to be blunt, crappy in every meaning of the word. So right now, there is no easy solution to this.
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#12 2007-07-12 07:02:11
- chinesedream
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Re: Textpattern and Shopping Cart
Hi you may want to check the Foxycart. http://www.foxycart.com/. It’s still beta but solid enough for live stores.
It offers subdomain.yoursite.com and yourcompanyname.foxycart.com otpions.
Not free though. I’d been playing with the trial version for a site that is developed in Modx.
Hope this helps!
tgp
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