Can we get the features of an Affiliate website using osCommerce CMS?

[ankur.arora]

I want to create an affiliate website using osCommerce CMS in which all the products will be listed like any ecommerce website. But if a person clicks on any product for details, it should redirect him to a different domain instead of redirecting him to the payment page of our site. Please let me know if this is achievable within your CMS or not.

 

Thanks,

Ankur

[burt]

Simple.  

 

1.  Set up osCommerce.  Use the Responsive Build.

 

2.  Remove Buy Buttons.

 

3.  Use the product URL system to show the URL (maybe as a Button), however do note that the URL was removed shopside (from v2.3 onwards), so you will need to create a Content Module to get it back.

[MrPhil]

osC is not going to do this straight out of the box, and will require some bending and cutting. How much of the osC shopping cart would you be using if you don't allow purchases -- just the basic catalog and search? Or not even that much (are all product details on other sites)? That's a bit like buying a Ferrari because you like the sound system, but you're never going to drive it anywhere -- just park it in your driveway for the neighbors to admire.

 

One thing to keep in mind is that if you have nothing more than the product name, picture, and teaser text on osC; you might be better off just cobbling together a bare-bones aggregator site that feeds off of data sent by the actual sales sites, and either updates its own database and search, or builds HTML pages itself. One of the assumptions of osC is that it controls all the product data and inventory. In your case, it won't be, and you run the risk of getting product entries out of synch unless you have constant automatic update. One thing osC does have is an "add-on" called Easy Populate that can accept CSV files to update its product database.

 

By the way, osC is not a Content Management System, at least in the same sense as Drupal, Joomla!, or even Wordpress. It is specifically an online store system, not a general site creation system. Also, osC uses a shopping cart, and does not take the customer directly to checkout/payment for each product. Multiple items can be added to the shopping cart, and paid for all at once.

[marcochiana]

I made with oscommerce responsive a price comparison for wine http://www.iltrovavino.it/

I think you need something like this