soundsational Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Hi all, Not sure if i'm in the right place for such a question but can anyone tell me if it is possible to use OScommerce for online fast food orders? Basically, the requirements are having a food menu where visitors can choose what they want to order which will be added to their shopping cart. Then they choose whether they would like to pick up or have their order delivered to them. This order will be transmitted to the restaurant by fax. Their should also be a secure login as visitors will have to register an account before they can start to make their order. Does this all sound possible with osCommerce? Thank you, S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 with some creative programming yes, but by fax? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozEworks Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 Yes it is possible and it has been done - all except the fax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundsational Posted August 6, 2005 Author Share Posted August 6, 2005 with some creative programming yes, but by fax? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes by fax... a receipt gets printed out in the kitchen so the chef knows what order has arrived to deal with. It's like sending by email except it is more practical to have it fax to the kitchen and printed out on the fly. Of course, this means we'll have to find a third party to allow us to reiceive faxes via Internet (ie, www.fax.co.uk ). What i do want to know is- will it be quick? and is there a module for this kind of function? thank you for your relpies, S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozEworks Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Well why not SMS the chef? :) To do the fax thing you might be better of searching other forums http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=262403 and of course coming back here and letting everyone know of course. There is no module that does anything of this specifically. There is a contribution that will display a list of products people can select from which would help you. Go look in the contributions area. http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1129 If you want to find sites that have done this then try searching for "restaurant" here or google "restaurant osCommerce" regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoZorro Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Why not use an opensource restaurant solution ;) Search on http://sf.net and there are a number of solutions available :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timinark Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Just mount a printer in the kitchen. Set up a rule in your email software to print whenever you get a message from your OScommerce site. That would seem a lot easier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundsational Posted August 8, 2005 Author Share Posted August 8, 2005 Thank you for all your responses. I chose osCommerce 'cos it seems a very trusted application and the development is always continuing as well as being fully rich in features. Also, unlike most other open-source projects of this kind, they seems to lack progress. Anyway, after searching this forum, i have found someone doing a similar project and has a website: MrDeliveryMan.com I have PM this member to try and get more answers. I just hope this person is still active in this forum. If faxing is out of the question, then i guess food orders by email would not be too much a problem as long as is reaches the restaurant within a couple of minutes. We do not plan to take payment via web. Only payment on delivery or pick up from registered customers. So i hope it would be a lot easier to implenment since i am new to this web application by i have faith in it. I was also thinking of WAP enabled site. Can osCommerce achieve this with additional modules in place? Thank you, S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 taking payment via delivery or pickup with an order off the internet can lead to troubles. other people could order pizza's etc and then you show up to deliver yet someone there could say no they did not order the item. not worth it, when dealing with food. if you call them to verify you have defeated your purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundsational Posted August 8, 2005 Author Share Posted August 8, 2005 taking payment via delivery or pickup with an order off the internet can lead to troubles. other people could order pizza's etc and then you show up to deliver yet someone there could say no they did not order the item. not worth it, when dealing with food. if you call them to verify you have defeated your purpose. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes! you're right, i have told my client the disadvantages but they still persist that it is the way forward to grow a business? we wouldn't be dealing with payment via web but only pay when the food is delivered to their door or if they came to pick up their order. Either way, it's still not feasible. This is really only open to our regular customers so we will have all their details by registering online for such a service and will be offered food at a discount rate as an incentive. As for new customers, they can also sign up to the service but we will need a way to verify their location since it must be local. I'm still looking into this problem. We can call them to verify but i think we need more than that, maybe a module to detect their location (country and city) when they sign up from a computer and their credit card details only for verification purposes? Anyway, still, i agree with you as the time it takes to fill in a web form (order), it would have been so much quicker if they just call us on the phone but try and put this across to my client? Thank you, D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisco Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Anyway, still, i agree with you as the time it takes to fill in a web form (order), it would have been so much quicker if they just call us on the phone but try and put this across to my client? Thank you, D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have been asking a lot of questions to my customer that are more acceptable to place an order on the web. I do not think that the regular customer would be taking the time to go to the web unless they are always on the web. Your business clients are more acceptable to make an order. My whole intent was not to have customers add order over the web. I wanted to add capabilities to view my stats on the most current data from anywhere. Since the capability is there I went ahead and add the customers features for web orders. We also add a special feature that allows us to attach the employee to their employer and dept they work in. Employer must add all the employee names and then the employee can login under the employer account limited acces s to the employee only. Employee adds his order to the current employer order and thats it. All billing is handled to through the employer. We are waiting to see if the OSSuite support is going to be supported. I have heard that it will be soon. Even if it does not I will probably go ahead and continue to go live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozEworks Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Depends where you are in the world as to whether people will order online. Try NYC - people will order lunch via the internet no problem and the world will follow. The printer soution does not work when you are talking mulitple locations. Faxes are easier for chefs to deal with - they are used to them for ordering. Anyone get any further with the fax option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozEworks Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Why not use an opensource restaurant solution ;) Search on http://sf.net and there are a number of solutions available :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I looked and found nothing suitable to a web based menu ordering system. Can you be more specific? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannuck1964 Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 I would suggest you have a saved order system in place as well, so when registered clients go to the site, they will be able to pick a saved oder, which is automatically added to the cart to simplify the ordering. So, this saved order system, could store multiple orders, which the customer could save at any point, then on their return, simple select the correct order they want, edit it and checkout ;) cheers, Peter M. Peter McGrath ----------------------------- See my Profile (click here) for more information and to contact me for professional osCommerce support that includes SEO development, custom development and security implementation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozEworks Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 I have not gone into that aspect with the client but I guess order history is there to support it. Of course it is not set up to be "the same again" at an order level - it is at item level really. And of course, being able to say start with that one and let me change it is important too. Certainly an area that needs to be explored. I still have to conquer the fax thing. I think I will start a new post on that problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene_e8 Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 I have not gone into that aspect with the client but I guess order history is there to support it. Of course it is not set up to be "the same again" at an order level - it is at item level really. And of course, being able to say start with that one and let me change it is important too. Certainly an area that needs to be explored. I still have to conquer the fax thing. I think I will start a new post on that problem. sorry to bring this back from the grave... but has this issue been resolved?? I can't seem to find an order faxing solution anywhere on the net! :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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