how are you using TXP for e-commerce?

evan · 2011-02-09 05:53:42

Hi all,

I’m curious to see how many folks are using TXP for e-commerce, and if so, how it’s implemented, seeing how there’s no active web cart plugins available nowadays. I tried poking around the forum for alternatives without any luck.

I’m looking for a web cart that allows me to choose multiple shipping options (ideally, that allow you to specify base shipping rates, with separate rates for additional items of same type), and possibly multiple payment gateways. I like how yab_shop and jCart work — the two solutions I found that seem easy to integrate — but both aren’t quite up to snuff in the shipping aspect (jCart, confusingly, has omitted it entirely).

What’s the word on this? There must be a way to use TXP seamlessly and easily for e-commerce without resorting to writing my own code.

Thanks for your time.

-evan

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maruchan · 2011-02-09 15:04:20

What about using a service like Shopify, redirected from a subdomain? Just the other day I noticed a TXP photography site doing that.

evan · 2011-02-09 18:57:51

What about using a service like Shopify, redirected from a subdomain? Just the other day I noticed a TXP photography site doing that.

I could use something like Shopify or ZenCart, but I would prefer to just use TXP, and not have to manage two separate CMS’s.

It may be that TXP isn’t the best solution for doing e-commerce, and is why there may be no answer to my question. I’m going to keep looking.

hicks · 2011-02-09 19:47:25

The book Textpattern Solutions has a chapter on how the authors built an ecommerce site, popularweddingfavors.com, with Textpattern. I haven’t read the chapter, but it looks like it’ll point you in the right directions.

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evan · 2011-02-09 20:06:58

hicks wrote:

The book Textpattern Solutions has a chapter on how the authors built an ecommerce site, popularweddingfavors.com, with Textpattern. I haven’t read the chapter, but it looks like it’ll point you in the right directions.

Thanks for the tip. I glanced through it on Amazon preview, it seems like they implemented it much in the way I was thinking — relying heavily on custom fields, and a PHP-based cart (in their case, wfCart).

I’ll probably stick with TXP and try the same, with either wfCart or simpleCart. After using TXP, trying to wrap my brain around other CMSes just gives me a headache, even if they may have some niceties in the e-commerce realm (inventory/purchasing histories being the big one in my book).

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tye · 2011-02-10 05:56:29

I just did one using ecwid – which is a free hosted solution.

All in all, with loading products & images, setting up shipping, making a few css changes – I think it took me 45mins – very easy.

You can see it integrated here

There is still trencs yab_shop which still works with a few adjustments on 4.3

I am working on a project at the moment using phpCart – its encoded, which I don’t like, but I think it will work well with Custom Fields – this has Paypal IPN – which is what I needed.

evan · 2011-02-11 20:09:38

Thanks for the tips, everyone. I’m working on implementing jCart into my project, which seems to work pretty well so far. I had to modify it to accept shipping costs, but that wasn’t too difficult.

For those wondering, I would recommend against using simpleCart, as it doesn’t play nice with the Prototype library. Otherwise it probably would be a easy solution.

GGSuper3 · 2011-03-28 18:53:06

Hi everyone. I’m presently working on an e-commerce catalog section for a txp site as well. I have my copy of Textpattern Solutions to aid me with mine using popularweddingfavors.com as the example. I downloaded the yab-shop plugin and will see how it goes and will update. Any success with other e-commerce ‘construct’ would be appreciated to aid with this process. Cheers, Grant

kemie · 2011-03-30 09:45:03

I’m using ejunkie on my site pixilate
It’s very easy, i get a code from e-junkie for the “add to shopping cart” button, and for the view cart/check out functionality, which I input to textpattern in the templates and through a custom field. E-junkie does all the payment processing.

I’ve also implemented e-junkie’s free version fatfreecart on another site (not live at the moment).
evan, if you want more details on how i did it, just ask :)

baihegen · 2011-03-31 01:50:47

I noticed a TXP photography site doing that.

GGSuper3 · 2011-03-31 17:27:52

Thanks for the reply. Will check them out…much appreciate. Cheers, GG

GGSuper3 · 2011-05-13 15:04:54

Thanks kemie for your suggestion. I set up ejunkie on this website which is working out fine. I placed the code into forms(misc) and pull that data into articles, that way new offerings, price changes, name changes, etc. can be updated quickly. Cheers, GG

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