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Can I use an external catalogue


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Hi, I have an existing catalog that would like to add a "add to cart" feature. Ideally without incurring the need to have duplicated item data in oscommerce.

 

Ideally I am looking to push a bunch of data from the add button into the shopping cart. If everything pulls its item data frm the oscommerce db based on item id then no problem but the flexibility of putting a generic add to basket button hugely outweighs being dependant on using a catalog hosted in oscommerce for obvious reasons.

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Hi, I have an existing catalog that would like to add a "add to cart" feature. Ideally without incurring the need to have duplicated item data in oscommerce.

 

Ideally I am looking to push a bunch of data from the add button into the shopping cart. If everything pulls its item data frm the oscommerce db based on item id then no problem but the flexibility of putting a generic add to basket button hugely outweighs being dependant on using a catalog hosted in oscommerce for obvious reasons.

 

 

Are you wanting to link outside html pages to your oscommerce cart?

 

If so, just link the product to its buy-it-now link in osc. Once your cart is set up, I think you'll be more dependant on the osc database to manage your products, instead of external pages. At least it would be easier.

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Are you wanting to link outside html pages to your oscommerce cart?

 

If so, just link the product to its buy-it-now link in osc. Once your cart is set up, I think you'll be more dependant on the osc database to manage your products, instead of external pages. At least it would be easier.

 

Thanks for your response I'll go check out that buy-it-now feature right now.

 

Regarding using osc to manage my products: no it wouldnt be easier. If I'm a business with existing systems in place one selling medium shouldnt change the way the business works. I have a catalog and all I want to deal with is orders and a selling medium.

 

Its a classic ebusiness problem unfortunately. Most people view commerce as being a complete sellside application instead of a modular piece that fits into a slot that your business requires.

 

 

 

Thanks for your response I'll go check out that buy-it-now feature right now.

 

Regarding using osc to manage my products: no it wouldnt be easier. If I'm a business with existing systems in place one selling medium shouldnt change the way the business works. I have a catalog and all I want to deal with is orders and a selling medium.

 

Its a classic ebusiness problem unfortunately. Most people view commerce as being a complete sellside application instead of a modular piece that fits into a slot that your business requires.

 

Where do I find this "buy-it-now" feature?

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Where do I find this "buy-it-now" feature?

 

Well... if I understand you correctly, you want to sell through your existing website catalog, without setting up osc? Then why would you want to use osc in the first place? For the checkout features?

 

Regardless, for orders to process through osc (a very powerful selling tool when in the right hands), you'll have to take the time upload your product info to the database and set up the payment and shipping modules. If you already have a database of products that you use to manage your existing site, you can upload them easily using a nifty little contibution called "easy populate".

 

Then after you setup your store, and you want to connect your old catalog to the checkout of osc, link the product to its respective "buy-it-now" button in osc. That way you can use existing pages to refer to your osc store.

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Well... if I understand you correctly, you want to sell through your existing website catalog, without setting up osc? Then why would you want to use osc in the first place? For the checkout features?

 

Regardless, for orders to process through osc (a very powerful selling tool when in the right hands), you'll have to take the time upload your product info to the database and set up the payment and shipping modules. If you already have a database of products that you use to manage your existing site, you can upload them easily using a nifty little contibution called "easy populate".

 

Then after you setup your store, and you want to connect your old catalog to the checkout of osc, link the product to its respective "buy-it-now" button in osc. That way you can use existing pages to refer to your osc store.

 

Basically I have a catalog with pricing on it. I wish to use the basket and some other features of oscommerce but I definitely do not want to start importing data. In theory the cart just needs to be able to map to a set of item ids and pointing at the right catalog. Thanks for your help and time, much appreciated.

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