Tibby Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Hello, I have a few questions that I hope someone might be able to help me with. I am exploring using oscommerce for our new website's ordering and commerce portal I am unsure if there is a way to make it function as I would like. For that matter I'm not sure if there is an open commerce system out there that will let me do like I want. I might be overstepping to say this but I would like to use oscommerce but if its not right for me then its not right, it happens but I have hopes that I can get somewhere with it. So now own to my questions that i hope someone might have an answer for or at least point me in the right direction. 1) We are a very spacific buisness and service and sell products to movie theatres for concessions. Popcorn, Candy, Hot Dogs etc. So our customers place orders weekly. The issue here is that each customer might have things that only they order and they do not need to see everything we have to offer. EXAMPLE: Customer A woudl have on there order list Snickers but they are not allowed to order Butter FIngers so Butter Fingers do not show up as and item they could order. However Customer B is allowed to order both Snickers and Butter Fingers. So both items are avlible to them for ordering. Is there a way to do this with oscommerce or are there any developers creating addons for permissions or User Spacific Items? 2) Items layouts, I would much rather just have a list of items under heading for customers such as Conncessions Candy and all the items avalible to the customer under Candy would be displayed in a list of items. EXAMPLE: - Snickers 12oz | QTY: [place to enter number] | Add button - Butter Finger 12oz | QTY: [place to enter number] | Add button I would ever be fine with the option to let the customer just scroll down the list and enter quantitiys then click one Add to Order butotn at the end of it all. I was trying to make ' | ' reprisent a colum on the page. Please see the image below for a better example. So any suggestions or did I just miss this in my reading? Any suggestions or directions would be greatly appreciated.
♥bruyndoncx Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 I think this is a rather unique request to limit the products catalog on a customer basis, but anything is doable with oscommerce. I have a reorder function so that the customer can select from a list of pre-approved items for easy access, but it does not rule out ordering from the general catalog. @@burt helped with that. If ordering from the general catalog is a hard no-no, then you have to change/remove different functionality to avoid anyone ordering a non-approved item. You have not talked about different pricing, that also often comes into play and might make things more complex. the listing you want is done through a contribution to add quantity boxes to the product listing. KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON I do not use the responsive bootstrap version since i coded my responsive version earlier, but i have bought every 28d of code package to support burts effort and keep this forum alive (albeit more like on life support). So if you are still here ? What are you waiting for ?! Find the most frequent unique errors to fix: grep "PHP" php_error_log.txt | sed "s/^.* PHP/PHP/g" |grep "line" |sort | uniq -c | sort -r > counterrors.txt
Tibby Posted January 23, 2014 Author Posted January 23, 2014 Thankf for your swift reply bruydoncx, Truthfully I could get away with just making it so the customer doe snot see the item in there list of avalible items to order. not really limiting it from them just not giving them the option up front.
♥joli1811 Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Hi Nave, If I understand right sppc combined with hide products and categories will do what you want as regards who sees what after log in the different customer groups see different prices and categories some are hidden from specific groups . That is if I understood the question right. As regards The 2nd question the product listing with quantity's again yes just needs a bit of tweaking there are available addons I think you mean that it is maybe not needed for your customer to go to the actual product page and instead (what we call the product listing page in oscommerce is enough) there all products in a specific category are listed Regards Joli To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
burt Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 I would have the shop set up so all customers can see (and potentially order) every item in your inventory. Keep it stupidly simple. Then, give each customer a private page onto which they can save their "buy again and again" items. Like a private wishlist that only they can see and buy from. This saves the customer from trawling through all your items to find the items that they want to purchase. Obviously each customer gets to save different items as they require. See: http://www.clubosc.com/customers-personal-page.html An item layout that allows the buyer to pass multiple products with quantities directly into the shopping cart is also possible. Main question: Is it OK for all customer to see all your inventory? And allow them to pick and choose from that inventory to make their own private inventory page.
Tibby Posted January 24, 2014 Author Posted January 24, 2014 Main question: Is it OK for all customer to see all your inventory? And allow them to pick and choose from that inventory to make their own private inventory page. Yes and no. The only reason I wish to limit an individual customer ability to see or order cretin items is that what they can order is set by there home office. So some sites are not allowed to order cretin products. Like I said Customer A can order only Snickers, but Customer B can order both Snickers and Butterfingers. What they can and can not have is set by there home office not us unfortunately. I truly wish it was. yes yes.
♥toyicebear Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Then johns suggestions would be your best bet Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here]
burt Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 @@Tibby if that is the case and you are certain that you cannot have all inventory showing for all customers, then the idea of @@joli1811 is the way to go. If you think it would be OK to have all inventory showing along with a private inventory system, then somethign like the idea of mine and @@bruyndoncx is the better way (as it is far less invasive in the code of osCommerce than sppc, which changes a lot of core code, whereas keeping is KISS changes barely any core code). Logic tells me that customer A (who can only buy Snickers) knows that you also sell Butterfingers, and Customer B (who can buy both) knows that you also sell Baby Ruth's. You know your business best, and osCommerce can fit whatever you decide, so long as you put some effort into coding or have cash to spend on a coder.
♥joli1811 Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 sorry wrong post To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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