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Shopping Cart

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:15 pm
by tristan
There are two systems we wish to combine. The first is simply a swish interface that displays products.

The second is a store that sells these products.

We require a store that can work in with the interface as follows:

• User is taken to a product purchase page from the interface (not part of the store system – a URL query string can do this? If an administrator has to manually insert the query string link in the interface system, which I imagine they will, then that is fine)

• Has the ability to either reserve or purchase a product. A reserved product can be unreserved at any later stage by the user who reserved it

• Once the product has been reserved or purchased, this information is sent back to the/an interface page (either the one, or one related to the page that sent it – again, not part of the store application) that can mark the product purchased or reserved in the interface.

The store needs the following capabilities:

• Payment methods: Paypal, Direct Debit/Bank Account, Credit Card
• Multiple Currencies
• Custom fields for products
• Multiple images per product
• Reserve or buy product (deposit required for reservation)
• Tax addition/ % display
• Email notification to user and/or administrators
• Ability to attach a digital file to each product that can only be downloaded after sale or reservation.

Other features of Store highly desired:

• Custom fields for user details
• Purchase history for customer
• Overall statistics/history for administrators.

If anyone is experienced with one or more cart application - please, I'd love to hear what you know, if anything you know of would suit what I'm after =).

Cheers.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:09 pm
by Christopher
I would think that most of the major cart systems can do the things on your list. You would just need to have your Swish system generate the URLs to add items to the cart. As they are free to try, I would recommend installing and demoing a few popular ones.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:19 pm
by tristan
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I think that the main problem will be the purchase/buy functionality. Whether a cart app does this is not immediately obvious, so if anyone knows of an app that does, I'd love to hear about it.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:21 pm
by Christopher
I think it is the reserve feature that you should look for. Just search for carts and check their feature list. OS Commerce and Zen Cart of often mentioned here.