garysgal Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 I'm sure this has been asked, but I can't find exactly what I'm looking for. I don't want a "cart", per se... in other words, I have a site with all of my products on separate pages/categories. I am currently using PayPal so each product can be purchased right there on the page. PayPal's limitations, however, are prompting me to look for an alternative "cart" (need discounts, coupons, multiple quantity price adjustments, etc). I really don't want to have to upload all of my products into a "generic" (yes, I know I can customize to a degree) catalog-type page and take the customer away from my actual site. Does that make sense? I still want my customers to click "add to cart", have it take them to a cart summary, and then give them the ability to go back to shopping. Is this possible with OSCommerce or am I asking for custom programming? Please advise, I can't seem to get any help on other webdeveloper forums. Thank you so much!
juniorprg Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 ok may be i dint understand it that well, did u mean that you dont need a shopping cart... which means your website has products pulled out from other websites and your website will be acting like a mediator... when customer clicks for one products its actually pulled out from another website? l8ter
GemRock Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 Highly possible osCommerce even after taking into account keeping the look & feel of your existing site. Ken I'm sure this has been asked, but I can't find exactly what I'm looking for. I don't want a "cart", per se... in other words, I have a site with all of my products on separate pages/categories. I am currently using PayPal so each product can be purchased right there on the page. PayPal's limitations, however, are prompting me to look for an alternative "cart" (need discounts, coupons, multiple quantity price adjustments, etc). I really don't want to have to upload all of my products into a "generic" (yes, I know I can customize to a degree) catalog-type page and take the customer away from my actual site. Does that make sense? I still want my customers to click "add to cart", have it take them to a cart summary, and then give them the ability to go back to shopping. Is this possible with OSCommerce or am I asking for custom programming? Please advise, I can't seem to get any help on other webdeveloper forums. Thank you so much! commercial support - unProtected channel, not to be confused with the forum with same name - open to everyone who need some professional help: either PM/email me, or go to my website (URL can be found in my profile). over 20 years of computer programming experience.
GemRock Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 Highly possible with osCommerce even after taking into account keeping the look & feel of your existing site. Ken I'm sure this has been asked, but I can't find exactly what I'm looking for. I don't want a "cart", per se... in other words, I have a site with all of my products on separate pages/categories. I am currently using PayPal so each product can be purchased right there on the page. PayPal's limitations, however, are prompting me to look for an alternative "cart" (need discounts, coupons, multiple quantity price adjustments, etc). I really don't want to have to upload all of my products into a "generic" (yes, I know I can customize to a degree) catalog-type page and take the customer away from my actual site. Does that make sense? I still want my customers to click "add to cart", have it take them to a cart summary, and then give them the ability to go back to shopping. Is this possible with OSCommerce or am I asking for custom programming? Please advise, I can't seem to get any help on other webdeveloper forums. Thank you so much! commercial support - unProtected channel, not to be confused with the forum with same name - open to everyone who need some professional help: either PM/email me, or go to my website (URL can be found in my profile). over 20 years of computer programming experience.
garysgal Posted October 20, 2006 Author Posted October 20, 2006 ok may be i dint understand it that well, did u mean that you dont need a shopping cart... which means your website has products pulled out from other websites and your website will be acting like a mediator... when customer clicks for one products its actually pulled out from another website? No, my products are my products and all on my site. I don't want to have to dump my site as it is and put everything into a "catalog" page for my customers to purchase from there. I want to leave my site as it is, but use OScommerce (if it will work) to be the "go-between" with my Paypal/checks/mo/COD payment methods... I see this method on thousands of sites that I purchase my stock from, but don't know what cart they're using.
wizardsandwars Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 No, my products are my products and all on my site. I don't want to have to dump my site as it is and put everything into a "catalog" page for my customers to purchase from there. I want to leave my site as it is, but use OScommerce (if it will work) to be the "go-between" with my Paypal/checks/mo/COD payment methods... I see this method on thousands of sites that I purchase my stock from, but don't know what cart they're using. It's possible, but not really easy. keeping the sessions intact will be the first problem. Especially for anyone that doesn't not have cookies enabled. For those people, after they add a product to their cart, if they click anywhere else on your website, their cart will be automatically emptied. Same thing with being logged in. If they register in the cart, but then click on one of those external links, they will be logged out when they come back to the checkout. IMO, it will be FAR easier to import all of your products into osC, and make osC look *exactly* like your current site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.
garysgal Posted October 20, 2006 Author Posted October 20, 2006 It's possible, but not really easy. keeping the sessions intact will be the first problem. Especially for anyone that doesn't not have cookies enabled. For those people, after they add a product to their cart, if they click anywhere else on your website, their cart will be automatically emptied. Same thing with being logged in. If they register in the cart, but then click on one of those external links, they will be logged out when they come back to the checkout. IMO, it will be FAR easier to import all of your products into osC, and make osC look *exactly* like your current site. Will that not change the web address/pages names?
wizardsandwars Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 Not necessarily, no. In your existing pages, you can just 'include' the page to the product page in the catalog. I've used this method before to keep existing pages that ranked well. Unforutnatly, they should be evantually be replaced with the pages in the cart, becuase the duplicate content will negativly impact the ranking for both. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.
garysgal Posted October 20, 2006 Author Posted October 20, 2006 Darlin', you rock... that's what I shall do then... what am I looking at for work here - I'm fairly adept at programming and web design, in summary, am I just moving CSS sheets and adjusting from there? I 'spect I should check out the modification forums... :D
wizardsandwars Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 Darlin', you rock... that's what I shall do then... what am I looking at for work here - I'm fairly adept at programming and web design, in summary, am I just moving CSS sheets and adjusting from there? I 'spect I should check out the modification forums... :D I'm afraid it's going to be a little more difficult than that. If this is your first time, making osC look like your existing site will take quite a bit of work. You'll need to take a look at the different components of the site header.php footer.php column_left.php column_right.php index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.
garysgal Posted October 20, 2006 Author Posted October 20, 2006 Excellent... I programmed a zencart before, but didn't care for it, so I should be able to figure this one out... Guess since I can't watch the OSU game this weekend, this gives me something to do! Thank you SO much for your help...
wizardsandwars Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 Excellent... I programmed a zencart before, but didn't care for it, so I should be able to figure this one out... Guess since I can't watch the OSU game this weekend, this gives me something to do! Thank you SO much for your help... No problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.
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