php based software shopping cart for all
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:11 am
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.
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.