Guest Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 Hello Everyone, I am in the process of building a business plan for selling customizable computer systems over the internet to a niche of people. I am not going to be selling individual computer components, only one product which are whole computer systems. For this reason, I do not find the "cart" or "checkout" sections of oscommerce neccessary. I need OSC backend for the following reasons: Custom Computer Creator (ccc 9.3) UPS Shipping calculator Payment gateway (Authorize.net) I want my webdesign (frontend) to be the main sales tool, not the ability for people to browse through individual products since I do not sell individual components, only whole computer systems. I hope that you can see what I am talking about, but I have also tried to make it more explainable through a visual presentation: http://www.lan-xtreme.com/stuff/oscommercequestion.jpg You will see that the upper portion of my website, the navigation bar on the left and navigation on the bottom will never change. Whether they click "About us" and in the window will be content, or whether they click products and are shot over to use the Custom Computer Creator (ccc 9.3), the same layout and design will still hold. I am not a OSC commerce or webdesign professional, but is this possible? Through the hundreds of oscommerce websites that I have visited, almost all of them still used the same text links on the left column and text on the right column instead of actual graphics like what I have shown above. Almost all of them also had hundreds of products, I am selling ONE product. This is why I only need OSC for 3 reasons, which are listed above. What is the solution to my dillema? Do I hire an OsCommerce professional to custom design what I need done? What I was thinking was that I do not even use the main oscommerce package, as far as using the whole application_top.php and column_left.php, column_right.php but design the site and in the little window shown in that graphic is the only part of the website that actually uses OSCOMMERCE and ONLY when they click on "Products" on the left side navigation. Opinions? Options? Is OSC the best suit for me? I hope that I have explained this as logical as I am thinking it. :)
Guest Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 Hello Everyone, I am in the process of building a business plan for selling customizable computer systems over the internet to a niche of people. I am not going to be selling individual computer components, only one product which are whole computer systems. For this reason, I do not find the "cart" or "checkout" sections of oscommerce neccessary. I need OSC backend for the following reasons: Custom Computer Creator (ccc 9.3) UPS Shipping calculator Payment gateway (Authorize.net) I want my webdesign (frontend) to be the main sales tool, not the ability for people to browse through individual products since I do not sell individual components, only whole computer systems. I hope that you can see what I am talking about, but I have also tried to make it more explainable through a visual presentation: http://www.lan-xtreme.com/stuff/oscommercequestion.jpg You will see that the upper portion of my website, the navigation bar on the left and navigation on the bottom will never change. Whether they click "About us" and in the window will be content, or whether they click products and are shot over to use the Custom Computer Creator (ccc 9.3), the same layout and design will still hold. I am not a OSC commerce or webdesign professional, but is this possible? Through the hundreds of oscommerce websites that I have visited, almost all of them still used the same text links on the left column and text on the right column instead of actual graphics like what I have shown above. Almost all of them also had hundreds of products, I am selling ONE product. This is why I only need OSC for 3 reasons, which are listed above. What is the solution to my dillema? Do I hire an OsCommerce professional to custom design what I need done? What I was thinking was that I do not even use the main oscommerce package, as far as using the whole application_top.php and column_left.php, column_right.php but design the site and in the little window shown in that graphic is the only part of the website that actually uses OSCOMMERCE and ONLY when they click on "Products" on the left side navigation. Opinions? Options? Is OSC the best suit for me? I hope that I have explained this as logical as I am thinking it. :) soooo.....if you don't think the cart or checkout is necessary, how do you suppose you will pass payment information off to authorize.net? not only do you need to pass the "financials" but also carholders name/address to them for approval. unless you are thinking of running the cc processing manually?
Guest Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 soooo.....if you don't think the cart or checkout is necessary, how do you suppose you will pass payment information off to authorize.net? not only do you need to pass the "financials" but also carholders name/address to them for approval. unless you are thinking of running the cc processing manually? You are right, I should re-state that. I do think that the cart and checkout part of the processes IS necessary. I just don't need the whole "click here to check your cart" or the "register before checking out" which I believe there is a module where they do not have to have an account, but rather just provide their information like billing and shipping address, cc number, etc.
Guest Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 You are right, I should re-state that. I do think that the cart and checkout part of the processes IS necessary. I just don't need the whole "click here to check your cart" or the "register before checking out" which I believe there is a module where they do not have to have an account, but rather just provide their information like billing and shipping address, cc number, etc. in that case it is very possible.... I dont have any of that either on my site. You can use as much or as little of this script as you need. There are some core processes that can be difficult to customize but from what you are describing, most of it is just cosmetic and not allowing you customers to use certain "features" that comes in a canned install.
Guest Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 Thanks a lot for the reply RocksIT. Any other comments? It makes sense to disable the left, right, top etc parts of OSC but who can I contact that would be interested in doing this, as far as taking my web design and integrating it into OSC ?
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