Can osCommerce do this

[nathan_ics]

Good evening,

 

I've been given a project to develop a website which needs a shopping cart but the "Store" its self will built from the ground up (most likely). The product is going to be interactively customizable. users will have a interface to select parts of the product and change it. Once they have completed what they want I need to then move the selected product details to a shopping cart/check out process.

 

I've downloaded about 4 or 5 different shopping carts/e commerce solutions and before I jump head first breaking them apart to see which will work I would greatly appreciate if someone could tell me upfront if this is doable or I'd be better off using something else.

 

Thanks

[Kanie]

Most things are possible with a little know-how, but solutions like yours that seem very specific often require a lot of custom coding to be applied on top of osCommerce.

 

If you provided a little more detail, specifically how the products are "interactively customizable" and a little more about the interface, then I'm sure a few people here, myself included, could start to point you in the right direction.

[nathan_ics]

Well for the most part This is still up in the "air" but I'll try and share with you as much as I can with out giving specific product information( just not sure how the client will feel about that yet I'll have to discuss with them) but for an analogy lets assume we have a Gingerbread cookie Various parts o the cookie are selectable and you can apply a different color icing on top of it from a swatch. so I could say select the head and click blue icing. then click the arms and select red icing. I'm saying select but this could end up being drag and drop.

 

When all is said in done the store will have one product a cookie which you can pick from several patterns "gingerbread man" being one of those then select the different parts and change the color. So when the customer has their selection made I just need a shopping cart I can send the params ( which pattern, What color for each section) of the cookie they selected and process their purchase.

 

I also said the store would "Most Likely" need be built from the ground up because of the simple interface with many variations of one product didn't fit well with the normal "Store" makeup.

 

I hope that gives you a better idea. The mechanic is the same as what we are looking for but i kinda over simplified it with the gingerbread man example.

 

Thanks

[Hotclutch]

I would say this can be done with a stock OsCommerce installation, using the product attributes and options functions. I think it will be well worth your time to look into OsCommerce. :)

[nathan_ics]

I've got a test site set up to play around with, I'll start looking into the product options capabilities

 

Thank you.