Which of these features are available out-of-the-box or through a module?

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Hello,

 

I'm evaluating osCommerce for a new project that I have to develop for a client. I have done one integration of osCommerce last fall, and it was basically just adapting the layout and adding a few modules, but still feel I have little experience. Thanks to all for your help. I'm basically not sure which of these functionalities are available out-of-the-box, which ones could be done through a module, and which ones would have to be developed.

 

1. Is it possible to remove public sign-ups? They want all customers to be entered through the admin side of the site. Is there an admin config to handle this? Would removing the sign up button from the appropriate php file work?

 

2. Is it possible to add some custom fields to the customer profile to have more than just the basic name, address, company info fields? Is there a module for this? If not, is this very complex to develop?

 

3. They do not want any prices or payment on the site. Rather, when the shopping cart is checked out, it should generate an order without pricing. They have an in-house invoicing system that they will enter the orders into and then send the invoice to the client with the products that are shipped. Is it possible to have no prices on the site and for customers to complete orders without prices?

 

4. They also want the orders to go to different warehouses depending on the location of the client. I was thinking of setting this up by having a special field in the customer profile like WAREHOUSE_NUMBER and then, when the order is completed, the site would look up the customer's WAREHOUSE_NUMBER and send the email to the appropriate warehouse. How complicated would this be? Would it also be possible to have different admins that see different orders, so that each warehouse could login and see their orders?

 

I have a lot of web programming experience, mainly with C# on ASP.NET and SQL Server. I have moderate php and MySQL skills and I've fiddled around with WordPress, osCommerce, done a few Joomla! installations, and even a Drupal site.

 

Thanks for your help.

Olivier

[Avec]

Check the contributions for these, but following is some guidance.

 

1. Is it possible to remove public sign-ups? They want all customers to be entered through the admin side of the site. Is there an admin config to handle this? Would removing the sign up button from the appropriate php file work?

Restricted site contribution

 

2. Is it possible to add some custom fields to the customer profile to have more than just the basic name, address, company info fields?

This should not be difficult if you are just collecting information. Add fields to the customer table in the database and the input fields.

 

3. They do not want any prices or payment on the site.

I know others have done this. I could not find a contribution for it right away, but I know it is there.

 

4. They also want the orders to go to different warehouses depending on the location of the client.

There is the built-in ability to have different billing and shipping addresses. Is that what you mean?

[Avec]

I should mention that there are tons of other contributions and they all include instruction. If you have experience, at least a little in PHP, then you should not have any problems.