Drupal e-Commerce

I am an experienced designer with a client who wants a used car site where he can add new cars and delete others on a daily basis.
Here is an example of a site similar to what I need.
http://www.cars2suit.co.uk/

Please give me an idea of how much this would cost if all text, comps and optimized photos and site map were provided. A range is OK. Open to other ideas also.

The dealer has about 35 vehicles at a time on the lot and has cars, trucks, trailers, motorcycles.

Thanks, Suzanne

--This isn't a rush job but I would like it to move along to make the release date of August 15.

Hi,

I was wondering if there is anyone out there who you like to write a generate module which will generate transactions for e-Commerce 3.x under Drupal 5. basically this would be similar to the generate modules in the devel module but it will create random transactions and products.

This means that I can test the upgrade of the e-Commerce from 3.x to 6.x and be able to bed it all down.

Thanks
Gordon.

Hi,

I have just released rc9. I have been a doing a lot of work on it over the past couple of days changing the checkout to use ctools object cache so that I could get PalPal Express working in Drupal 6.x. Because of changes to the formapi in Drupal 6, and because you need to leave the checkout to go to PayPal and then come back it was just not working.

This was not the only reason for using ctools but because ctools comes with a modal dialog support for ec_charge and also when I looked at it the form wizard will make it so that the checkout can be as many or as few pages as you want and handle all that stuff without me having to deal with it, and add things like the breadcrumbs in the checkout and other things. Also a long the lines of usability I have added support for the vertical tabs module which looks great when enabled and e-Commerce takes advantage of this.

The changes to the checkout may not be there by the time 4.0 is released but will be in a following release.

ATM recurring payments will only work in PayPal as I have not yet coded up the extra stuff for express to be able to start setting up recurring payments.

I think this is coming real close to a final release. I only have 4 cards left ATM and once they are done I think I will be looking very seriously at a final release unless something comes up. So I will do and then there will be an rc10 which should be the last version. Please test and submitting any issues and I will get them out of the way.

See http://drupal.org/node/477726 for information and to download

Gordon.

Hi,

I am looking a little down the track and I was just wanting to gauge the interest in allowing customers to save credit card numbers for later use.

eWay (and I am guessing others) supports a method which allows users to save their credit cards for later use. Would people be interested in having a feature like this for their customers.

Also (forgetting patent isues) this would be the first step for allowing users to have single click purchasing.

Let me know if this is something you would like.

Gordon.

Hello,

Is there a ec4 module that allows to assign a discount (% on the listed product price) per user?

Also, here (http://groups.drupal.org/node/17377) is a nice list of all the modules but I can't seem to find a (brief) description of them. Can we document those somewhere?

hi guys, Just flagging the release of a new payment gateway module called ec_hsbc.module that works with Drupal 6.x and Drupal eCommerce API version 4.x.

http://drupal.org/project/ec_hsbc

It provides CPI integration with the HSBC secure ePayments service.

cheers,

dub

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Hi,

I am getting to the pointy end of the 4.0 release for Drupal 6, and 1 area which has not had too much attension.

I am looking for someone who would like to develop shipping integration calculation for any shipping company. Main to test my thoughts on how this will be done. Really all you will be doing is implementing the communitication between e-Commerce and the shipping company and I will provide all the interfaces and other information and then you can send this off to the shipping company.

If anyone wants to help please let me know.

Gordon

I have just released rc6 http://drupal.org/node/446142 and it is getting better and better. ATM I am releasing a new RC every 7-10 days, mainly because I am actively deploying new sites to my own clients and it is much easier to do than loading on devs, and the following conversations that I will end up having.

Over the next week I am going to starting to get recurring payments working, which will include getting ec_recurring upgraded all the updates to ec_receipts and ec_paypal. The first gateway to support recurring payments is going to be PayPal, and then either Authorize.net or eWay depending on who wants it first.

ec Charges has been worked on a bit more and is really becomming great and is blowing away all my expectations that I ever had. If someone wants to work with me on a shipping calculation just let me know.

If there are any problems please let me know.

Looking for an experience programmer to build a mall with multi vendor that are able to upload & control their products in/to the mall.

More specific info will be given later.

Preference to Hebrew speaker (not a must)
Preference to programmers that already built such a site

Contact me at
Ishayk (@) hotmail .com

I have done quite a bit of work over the past few days and I have gotten the new charge system working really great. In actual fact I think that it is working better than I ever imagined.

ATM I have not built all the componets that I want to build, but it is still kicking butt. Also remember this new charging system that has been built replaces shipping, discounts, tax modules and is all pretty much just point and click to build new charges.

The majority of the time store owners will not need developers to build new charges or discounts. However for integration into shipping companies will need to work to build up the calculation componet to get the prices from the shipping API, but I see there being module being released for integration into shipping companies, and the component API is very easy so it is not hard.

The other thing is that if you want to you can use multiple shipping companes together to give the customer the best price. So you could offer standard post or a shipping company to give the customer the options. Not only that the store owner can actually use different shipping methods for different delivery destinations. Also if someone really wanted to they could write new filter componets for determining which warehouse to ship from and then calculate the changes based upon different start points. (Note I have no need for this, So I have not developed it, But someone could develop a warehouse module to handle this).

These charges can also be defined where they are added in the system, so you can add them to a product or to the transaction. So role based discounts are just a filter, and nothing more. Even if you want to charge anonymous customer a higher price, a couple of clicks and there you go.

This also means that I do not have to be an expert and every different type of tax around that world. I saw a tweet that another open source cart that they were having a meetup on how to implement VAT in their cart. e-Commerce can leave this to the store owner who needs to know how to this anyway, and I don't need to worry about whether a store owner doesn't like how I implemented it, since they will define it.

I have attached Australian GST as an example. It is pretty simple.

Once I get some breathing space I am going to add an import/export system for charges so we can build you a library of these for people to use.

Nyla Simone Home is an upscale transitional furniture store and full-service showroom. The company needs a website that features, its interior design services, custom furniture products, client testimonials, press/events/blog/newsletter archives, feature event or special item for sale in e-commerce area, as well as be aesthetically pleasing overall. A metropolitan home magazine look is desired.

Site should include the following pages:
Home Page w/ key message (Cosmopolitan Polished Refined) and mission
Products (Beds and Bedding, Furniture, Upholstery, Accessories, Art Gallery)
Interior Design Services
Special Offers
About Us
Contact Us
In-Store Events
Press
Newsletter
Testimonials

Research and Design Philosophy:
Research should be conducted, if not already known and understood, on the targeted demographic and psychographic audiences and any viable current ideas or competing ideas and companies. The site is intended to provide potential and existing customers with important information about the company, products, and services, while providing the target market with the information and tools they need to drive on-line and in-store sales.

The graphical elements, imagery, and/or photography need to be collected and/or purchased, edited (color-corrected and optimized), and integrated into the overall plan. The site architecture should be planned and a framework should be created. Design concepts and sketches should be planned and laid out accounting for any necessary design revisions of the layout or its elements.

Once the concept/design is approved by NSH, the physical coding of the added site pages / attributes can commence and incorporate the graphical elements and design principles from the research / concept / design phase into the layout and code.

Design and Development Guidelines:
- Use new design (old site www.nylasimonehome.com) for for newer usage. Metroplolitan Home and Ell eDécor Magazine look and feel.
- Products and Interior Design Services images to be gallery style with image thumbs linking to larger images
- Contact Us page to have a form with: name, address, email, phone, msg box; opt in for occasional notifications about special purchases, sales, and in-store events;
- Interior Design Services page to have a form with: name, email, phone, msg box, street address, city, state, zip; opt in for occasional notifications about special purchases, sales, and in-store events;
- Forms 1. submit to an email address, 2. have an autoreply to user, 3. store in database
- Need small custom backend with login to dump database entries from form submits into two CSV files, one for direct mailing with physical address info from Interior Design Services page and the other with name/email for building email campaign lists
- Press page like gallery page but with magazine thumbnails linking to PDFs
- NSH wants ability to simply update and add new content to the following pages: newsletter, News/Events, products w/ descriptions, special offers, seasonal sales (non-static Special offer has focal point appearance on front page like www.westelm.com does)(i.e., Spring Sale Event, Summer Sales Event, Fall Sales Event, Winter Sales Event, Twice-Annual Clearance Events, Presidents Day Sale, Memorial Day Sale, Labor Day Sale)
- NSH wants to add ‘mini’-shopping area. 1 page cart for small items like scented candles, diffusers, bedding, accessories, and pillows. (title, figure and text box)
Ability to enlarge thumbnail figure
- Add Newsletter page
- Delete Trade page and replace it with Interior Design Services page
- Newsletter/Blog postings with News-Events area
- NSH wants built to add following features at future date: larger e-commerce system,
- All external links will open a new browser leaving the existing site remaining open at all times. Every page will include a link returning the home page of the website

Looking for a 4 - 6 week turnaround including design concept / selection.

CONTACT KATHERINE@NYLASIMONEHOME.COM FOR MORE INFO OR TO SETUP PHONE CONVO ON PROJECT. PLACE WEB PROJECT IN SUBJECT AREA.

Hello. This is my first post to this group. Moderator, please delete If it ends up in the wrong spot,

We've been selling products and subscriptions for about two years using Drupal 5.x / E-Commerce 3.x . We're now looking at upgrading to Drupal 6.x / E-Commerce 4.x. I've looked for info on upgrading E-Commerce, to no avail. If I've missed it, please point me in the right direction. If not, I'm going to figure out for myself how to go about it.

I expect that I'll be writing some SQL, and maybe some PHP to glue it together. If anyone familiar with both 3.x and 4.x can take five minutes and post some loose thoughts on where I might get started or problems I might run into, I'd greatly appreciate it. And I'll post whatever I come up with for the benefit of others who might be doing the same thing.

Oh, and I realize that some modules, notably ec_recurring for my usage, still aren't ready for 4.x. I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.

Bill P.

I just saw this module http://drupal.org/project/helpinject floating across the twitter timeline and was quite interested. Basically it allows you to import documentation from Advanced help and then export it back.

This perked my interest esp since I need to write a lot of documentation for advanced help to make it a lot more useful in e-Commerce for the final release.

Using this module I would be able to crowd source a lot of this inline documentation to other people who would like to see more information about different functions within e-Commerce.

This is however a 6.x only module, and luckily I am in the of upgrading http://drupalecommerce.org to 6.x so I am thing very seriously about adding in this module so people can easlily update the documentation that is contained within the e-Commerce modules.

With this I am planning to also add the public api's so that people writing code can find is much easier.

Please leave comments if you think this is a good idea or not. I am hoping to upgrade it all this weekend if I cn get around the menu upgrade problem.

I'd love to work on a project related to the latest version of e-Commerce for Drupal 6. Maybe writing tests, or contributed modules for it, or maybe just porting some of some of the modules not ported to 6.x. Any ideas or thought? I'm open to all ideas/suggestions.

This has been a long time coming, I do not doubt that there will be more work, but now it is main clean ups. I feel all the functionality is there and really more than anything just needs hammering on.

One of the things that I was concentrating on when doing any bug fixes was to start doing them as Test driven development so I would create a test and then from the test fix the issue. This means that when the new PIFR system comes I will turn on the testing for e-Commerce so that everytime a commit is done, all the tests will be run and everytime a new patch is uploaded it will be applyed and tested so when we get to a new patch we know that it applies, and that it passes all the tests.

There is only a few tests ATM but as time goes by more will be developed, and I am getting faster at developing them so I will add them as I find tests to add, and as I fix issues. If you have any ideas for tests please create an issue and someone will get to them. I would prefer to have too many ideas for tests than not enough.

With all the new and much better things in the Drupal community has to offer I always things how much better it is being within the Drupal community. It is much easier to leverage what we have here than have to set up and maintain my own systems outside the Drupal community.

One of the main areas that I have been working on is to move all the theme_*() out into template files. I have completed the ec_cart module and I am working on others. Anyone wants to help please jump in.

Also the decision to have views do all the reporting is the greatest thing ever. I added a few lines of code and now ec also leverages the drupal search system to allow full text based searches of invoices and receipts. Then added some minor amounts of code for views and we now have a text based search. There were some sticking points with this as having a whole heap of exposed filters at the top of a report is very ugly. Now with some creative form and themes I have them all hidden away in a collapsible fieldset.

I also have a podcast that I am putting the finishing touches on and hope to release some time this week.

See http://drupal.org/node/414432 to download and see more information.

Hi,

With the release of the first RC for e-Commerce 4.0 I am looking to run training here in Melbourne Aust.

I am thinking that this will be a 2-3 day training coarse which will cover the installation of e-Commerce and configuration of e-Commerce, the laying out your the site with theming and development of views. Integration into your current workflow, and integration into existing system (Using the API), how to build a payment gateway etc.

Generally when I run training I leave the last half day as a free time to work on student directed training. So anything that you can think of. Basically half a day to pick my brains on any topic.

Right now I have no dates in mind, but I am just looking at finding out if there is enough interest to make sure it is worth while in moving forward with this endevour.

I know that Australia is a long way from everyone, I am also looking at adding online training sessions as well so if you are interested please let me know.

Thanks in advance.
Gordon.

e-Commerce 4.0 is now feature complete. Other than just doing the final clean ups and writting more of the standard extensions to modules like adding more filters to ec_charge, or some more product features. Since this is the case this is going to be the final BETA and if there are no major issues I will be releasing the first release candidate in the next week or so.

There has been a lot of work on getting the final piece of e-Commerce done. ec Charges is now implemented and working. It will create miscellaneous charges on any transaction. There is still work to be done on the extensions to ec charge but the API is quite nice and these will be added. If you have any ideas for filters, variables or calculations please drop just raise an issue, and I will look into it.

The main area I would like to be concentrated on is the ec charges. These are miscellaneous changes are added like setup fees, shipping, taxes, and anything else that can be dreamed up. Please post any issues and I will get them sorted as quick as possible.

See http://drupal.org/node/399036 for changes