Ecommerce Alternatives
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Fully understanding it will be awhile before C5 has an ecommerce side to it, what is everyone using for clients in the meantime? If the architecture of C5 appeals to you then i'd be interested in knowing what ecommerce package most pleases you to work with - pros, cons, etc.
September 30th, 2009.
I'll be the first to say... "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
YEAH!
if e-commerce has been released, this is a concrete5 block?
if e-commerce has been released, this is a concrete5 block?
NM
Long waited dream coming true! Welcome to e commerce on C5!
Well that's good news indeed! Is it based an existing package or proprietary to C5?
totally from scratch, all by core team as a c5 add-on.
it'll be basic and intuitive. We're making a lot of decisions to make it extendable - so specialized features don't have to impact its codebase.
It'll cost $95 per site.
Here's a sneak of a page in process.
it'll be basic and intuitive. We're making a lot of decisions to make it extendable - so specialized features don't have to impact its codebase.
It'll cost $95 per site.
Here's a sneak of a page in process.
will it be as simple as in the pic?
attributes, special frontend search features?
we're focusing on making something that serves 70-80% of the audience really well and is extendable for others...
so yes, there will be custom attributes you can assign to product and an ability to search them... there will be flat rate shipping, and a simple sale price system... we won't get into taxes, complicated shipping calculators, etc.. that stuff quickly becomes country specific and we believe as long as we make it easy for you all to extend the system to do what you need, there's more value for everyone.. (make a great shipping calculator for DHL and you can sell it in the marketplace.)
so yes, the picture is just a taste - but no, there won't be thousands of tabs everywhere...
so yes, there will be custom attributes you can assign to product and an ability to search them... there will be flat rate shipping, and a simple sale price system... we won't get into taxes, complicated shipping calculators, etc.. that stuff quickly becomes country specific and we believe as long as we make it easy for you all to extend the system to do what you need, there's more value for everyone.. (make a great shipping calculator for DHL and you can sell it in the marketplace.)
so yes, the picture is just a taste - but no, there won't be thousands of tabs everywhere...
how about 1 page checkout? ajax add to cart? where users stay on same the page with an add to cart.
i'm suprised the item description isnt an htmle editor
i'm suprised the item description isnt an htmle editor
i'm working now with prestashop... pleased with it but eagerly awaiting to see which direction c5 takes things...
I'm using a "Paypal block" I made. It's only for selling a few items.
would you want to post your block? For other people to use?
I'm planning on submitting it to the marketplace (for free) after I spiffy it up a bit.
It would be quicker to post in the forum if you don't mind.
From the looks of things it might take a bit to actually see it up in the marketplace.
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/block_requests/accordion_...
*note what frz said at the bottom.
From the looks of things it might take a bit to actually see it up in the marketplace.
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/block_requests/accordion_...
*note what frz said at the bottom.
It doesn't conform to the marketplace standards yet. Also, it's pretty basic... just shows a button that takes you to a PayPal checkout screen.
TODO
1) Allow user to choose button image
2) Currency selection
3) Implement options (Color, size, etc)
TODO
1) Allow user to choose button image
2) Currency selection
3) Implement options (Color, size, etc)
Works well on my test site. Thanks! If you could add a product image and a description and multiple products that'd be perfect. Great start though! And the todo list looks good as well.
What do you mean by multiple products?
Just an idea would be to have 3 or 4 products in the same entry. So my idea would be to have a "add item" button then have the bring up the form that you have for the Title, pricing, number, shipping fee. Then when you add the item it would take you back to the pop up where you could "add another item" or you could reorder the products, edit them etc... but this would probably take some jquery and might be getting too complicated for what you intend. It was just an idea.
Makes sense. This was meant to be a simple paypal addition. I think the energy involved in expanding this would be better put into a full ecommerce solution such as the C5 team is working on.
Thanks for the suggestions though!
Thanks for the suggestions though!
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/corecommerce/
