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Advice / Comments on selling online to small group


aguzman

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Hi, I work for an association office with a membership of 800 companies. Our webiste is hosted by Ipowerweb whcih provides osCommerce as one of the programs they offer.

 

We want to start taking membership payments online, provide members the ablility to pay for seminars, and sell a few products that we offer. Since osCommerce is a free download, I figured we try to use it. I downloaded the program without a problem. I even was able to download some of the different style sheets and a customer group add on provided by this website's download section. I played around in the admin section but have a few concerns.

 

1. I would like to be able to upload our membership information with their username and passwords up to the database.

2. Give our members the ability to pay for or renew their membership to the association via osCommerce, if possible.

3. Sell products and allow members to pay for seminars online. Our members get a discounted rate but the discount is not universal. For example - the seminars are discounted 50% from non-members but our literature might have some varations to the discount. Some books could be 40% for members and others can be 30% off for members.

 

Is osCommerce somehting that we can use? we do not target a large audience - only the pool and spa industry.

 

How will members be able to pay for their dues suing this program?

 

Please any information or comments would be helpful.

 

Thanks

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I would say that you could configure osCommerce to do what you want. There are contributions that allow discounting to select customers, so that will be easy to handle. Adding your current membership information into the database should not be a big problem, and you can configure the database to have the necessary fields for your application. Depending on where your database resides, you can link to it or link it to another masterdatabase to keep things organized. You can add fields to the 'My Account' page to allow the customer to check the status of their membership, discount rate, and whatever other information you want them to be able to see from your database.

 

One of the huge benefits of osCommerce is that it is extremely customizable, and because of that alone I would say that it can be configured to do just about anything. Your ideas are fairly straight forward, and well within the scope of the software.

 

Good Luck

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