looking to make ecommerce site with web 2.0 aspects

[cworldspin]

is the following things capable of being done with OSC someone told me that OSC doesnt have the rss feeds or forums or ability for registered members to upload items.

 

Please let me know if I can use OSC or should be looking at another platform, also if there is someone who can make this type of ecommerce site let me know I might be interested in coming to some arrangement for your services.

 

 

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Content management system, where we don't have to call the web designer every time we want to make a change.

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Featured Product Spots,

 

Web 2.0

2. Section for WebBlogs/ Forums

3. RSS Feeds

4. Email a friend feature, ability to refer products by typing in friends email

 

 

 

Search Functions

Product Search Function

Recently Searched items on website, Most Purchased item

 

Cart Design:

Shipping and tax calculation based on zipcode

Ability to up-sale additional items within the cart, at the end of checkout

Directed to shopping cart only when finishing sales process, not after every click of an item they want to purchase

Easy/Visible update cart button.

Email customers who haven't completed transactions (after 24 hours), items must remain in cart

 

Data feed (Imports)

Data feed Import, for importing products from any affiliate data feed and automatically creating products

Automatic thumbnail generation using GD or imagemagick

Ability for individual merchants to create their own storefront (or listing). Payment will go through various pay methods, while we collect a commission percentage.

Essentially allowing members to upload their own products

 

 

Back end:

Friendly system to upload products; site should show update almost immediately

Ability to export the contents of store in multiple data feed formats (XML, CSV, TXT) All Fields Required,

Sales Tracking/Reporting

Ability to send automated emails to wholesalers, with products purchased.

 

Security:

Top notch through the site from back end to shopping cart.

[photofxplus]

<quote>OSC doesnt have the rss feeds or forums or ability for registered members to upload items</quote>

 

Dont know this guy but I would say he needs to broaden his horizons..

Sure all this can be done..

 

Be a lot of work..

Pardon me if I am wrong but it sounds as if you want to create some stores based on the osC Template and sell these stores to customers..

 

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'Content management system, where we don't have to call the web designer every time we want to make a change.'

Ability for individual merchants to create their own storefront (or listing). Payment will go through various pay methods, while we collect a commission percentage.

Essentially allowing members to upload their own products

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Biggest problem I see may be the osC license (Free Sharware), perhaps you should take a look at it.

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Biggest problem I see may be the osC license (Free Sharware), perhaps you should take a look at it.

 

can you explain further?

[cworldspin]

can you explain further?

 

We do not want to sell the ecommerce applications what we want to do is essentially create a mall type site were certain members are able to upload onto our site their own products, we are not looking to resell any aspect,

 

What we want to provide is an eccommerce site were a registered user can upload an item that want to sell directly onto our site so that others can see it buy it. This make sense? Is this possible with osc

[photofxplus]

we are not looking to resell any aspect

 

What we want to provide is an eccommerce site were a registered user can upload an item that want to sell directly onto our site so that others can see it buy it.

 

I am not a lawyer by any way.. Apologies if I came on that way.. But it did sound like you were intending to create stores using the osC template and resell them. There are many such sites that do that - not necessarily using osC's template but offering mega product inventory (theirs) and your own store.

 

Honestly I do not know if the osC fre-share license means you can sell the code or not. I do know that it states you must make the code open source so that anyone that you pass it on to can see and edit as well. I would not think that anyone would create something then give it away allowing others to profit by selling the product.

 

However in your case, the store belongs to you, any customer would be like a registered customer - personaly I see no problem at all with that.

 

As for the changes you wish to implement - sure it could be done and anyone that says it cant - well as I previously stated..

 

You would need to make some changes and additions - but when I look at coding, php, java, perl, mySQL, - even MS vb - I dont see any limitations. Just persistance..

 

I would say that what you wish to do would go along with eBay or another such site.. Perhaps a search on the web would produce another program that would better suit your needs - already be pointed in that direction anyway..

 

Else, there are a lot of programmers on the web that work on osC sites - for hire.