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php based software shopping cart for all

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:11 am
by chrizb
Hi,

I have been developing a software tool which is designed to allow people to sell software over the internet. The principle is simple: As a seller I simply install the php framework (similar to phpbb but a shopping cart) onto a server (with mysql and a mail client) and it installs a selling site and a support site onto the web-server. functionality includes:

Create product page
Upload product
Create license number
Web services to validate license number
download software
monitor installed software
List product on e-bay
take money from google pay and paypal
IPN monitoring
automatic splitting of income between developers.

SO far so good. It works and it is okish. The guy I developed this with however has died or something (it was a long distance project between the UK and Canada) so I have decided that it might be nice if it was open source and it was GPL or something like that.

For that to be possible a couple of re-design aspects have to be made (at the moment the product registers all customers centrally on one server, but allows many catalogues to exist on different servers. It would make more sense to have an installation being independent? It also lacks a couple of basics things, like retrieval of user passwords, reducing input fields for customers, VAT calculations and some other stuf)

Please note that I own the IP at the moment, but credit would of course be shared with people who join this effort.
The project was originally designed to be comercial, but it sort of didn't go anywhere and lets face it, no-one pays for this stuff anymore.

I am interested in finding someone who is willing to take a more long term interest in this project from a coding perspective. I would do everything else (web deployment, marketing, support (except coding support). Once it is whiped into a decent shape We can release it together.

Thanks for taking an interest and let me know what you think.

Re: php based software shopping cart for all

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:58 am
by chrizb
PS: If you want to take a look. It lives here: http://www.softsellcart.com.

Re: php based software shopping cart for all

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:31 am
by chrizb
Apparently The above is not clear, or maybe people are just not interested?

The idea is that every coder can have a site with selling capabilities for free. The selling capabilities are honed to software, rather than physical products. It just needs a few simple teaks to get it out there. No-one interested to do the developer community at large a good deed?

Re: php based software shopping cart for all

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:47 am
by matthijs
I think people would like to see some code and have a bit more background before deciding to participate. Your shopping cart is not the only one out there ;)

Maybe you could explain to people what is different about your script/code, philosophy, etc

Re: php based software shopping cart for all

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:02 am
by chrizb
Makes sense...thanks for the tip :)

OK, the code is different to any other shopping cart since it needs to manage licensing and software support in the same environment. Licensing is handled by creating a license code using php scripting (ie the seller of software can devise an algorythm to create a random license code. This code, when entered into the software can then be compared with this generated one per user using web-services.

The beauty is also the software has been activated, it blocks the re-use of that license code. All software code can be licensed this way, including scripts (like php, java,...) and license types include users, number of uses and machine based license. Up to 6 additional paramters can be collected during the license service call, which can ensure a license is only used on a machine (for example).

In addition the software loggs attempts of installing your software with a license that is already in use (including IP and any other information you wish to collect during installations.

The seller can (and should) also upload the software to the cart. This creates a download slot only available if you hold a licnese for the customers.

SoftSellCart does support google pay and paypal as well as connect automatically to e-bay, so you can set-up an automatic auction for your software. Licenses can be granted manually and can be revoked. You can also mail all customers of aproduct.

Looking forward to feedback. If for example no-one wants such a product then I can just chuck it away :(

Have fun

Re: php based software shopping cart for all

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:03 am
by chrizb
PS: I forgot to state that all admin in softsellcart is done through an admin panel which is also online. If people are interested then I can make a test installation and people can check out the admin area.

Re: php based software shopping cart for all

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:09 am
by chrizb
Thank you for the private messages. We have now hooked up a small team and we should be off and running in the near future.
Thanks again!