Can osCommerce do this? ::ATT: Noob Alert::

[zenwebdev]

Before I go to the trouble of DL osCommerce again and then deleting it because I re-thought the situation, I figured I would ask you kind people first.

 

Here's what I have.

 

1) A list of item numbers, names, descriptions, and so forth in a comma delimited format.

3) Another shopping cart/credit processing gateway hosted somewhere else.

 

Can OSCommerca allow me to do the following?

 

1) Build up a storefront with these products without manually entering them each? [Over 10,000]

2) Act as if the site is completely independent but when "add to cart" is chosen the link is using an offsite cart?

3) When it comes to processing payment, the customer goes through the offsite gateway processing?

 

Forgive me if I do not have the correct terminology. Using shopping carts...storefronts and so forth are new to me. I ran a site once where Miva Merchant was what my client had but even then it was all manual, on a webhost who supported it, and within the same gateway of processing.

 

I would appreciate any assistance, guidance or steering into the right direction.

Not to mention I am confused by terminology such as "storefront" vs "shopping cart solution."

 

Speak to me as if I am completely daft.

 

Thanks.

[Velveeta]

Before I go to the trouble of DL osCommerce again and then deleting it because I re-thought the situation, I figured I would ask you kind people first.

 

Here's what I have.

 

1) A list of item numbers, names, descriptions, and so forth in a comma delimited format.

3) Another shopping cart/credit processing gateway hosted somewhere else.

 

Can OSCommerca allow me to do the following?

 

1) Build up a storefront with these products without manually entering them each? [Over 10,000]

2) Act as if the site is completely independent but when "add to cart" is chosen the link is using an offsite cart?

3) When it comes to processing payment, the customer goes through the offsite gateway processing?

 

Forgive me if I do not have the correct terminology. Using shopping carts...storefronts and so forth are new to me. I ran a site once where Miva Merchant was what my client had but even then it was all manual, on a webhost who supported it, and within the same gateway of processing.

 

I would appreciate any assistance, guidance or steering into the right direction.

Not to mention I am confused by terminology such as "storefront" vs "shopping cart solution."

 

Speak to me as if I am completely daft.

 

Thanks.

Storefront vs. Shopping Cart Solution... These 2 terms can be used interchangeably usually, but sometimes people refer to a "storefront" as just the catalog side of things that the customer sees, vs. the entire package, front and backend... As for your questions... Yes, oscommerce can be made to import all of that data from the csv file, however, not by default... You'd have to write or have written a script to do the importing for you into your oscommerce database... As for acting as if the site is completely independent, but using the offsite cart for storing the items, this is not something it's designed to do, and I'm not even sure if it can be made to do it... Possibly, if it's querying the offsite database directly for storing the items, but this would involve a rewrite of the shopping_cart class and the order class at a minimum... And as for #3... Given that many payment processing gateways check the address that the customer details are coming from against your account id and password or authentication token, before allowing you to use it to process payments, if you wanted to do something like this, you would most likely have to redirect them to your offsite page... Now, this could possibly be handled transparently, by passing them to an offsite page at your other storefront, which is specifically designed to catch these osc order confirmations, and then forward that on to the payment processor, receive the confirmation (or denial), and pass that back to oscommerce for actual processing... However, that would involve writing a new payment module plugin for oscommerce that was designed to point to your other site, and receive specific data back from your other site, and then writing the script on the other site to act as a proxy between your osc site(s) and the payment gateway... It's all doable, it just depends on how much work you want to put into making it happen...

 

Richard.

[zenwebdev]

Thanks so much Richard. What I'll start with now is installation.

 

After hearing your answers I feel confident it is then possible.

 

Thank you so very much. :)

 

You may be seein' more of my ugly mug around here then.

[Velveeta]

Thanks so much Richard. What I'll start with now is installation.

 

After hearing your answers I feel confident it is then possible.

 

Thank you so very much. :)

 

You may be seein' more of my ugly mug around here then.

Well, like I said, it *is* possible, but just about anything is possible these days with the world of networking and various services... This may take a lot more work to pull off than you're ready for though, I just thought I would say that it's not *im*possible, which is probably a better way of phrasing it than it's possible :D

 

Richard.