I am interested in creating different product options within options in Opencart. For example, I am selling art prints in various sizes and would like to add an additional option of framing, however the price of the frame must change according to the print size. So if a customer chooses a print of 11 in x 18 in, the framing price would display as less than if they opted for an 18 in x 24in. How can I do this in Opencart so the framing price will automatically adjust depending on print size?
I don't want to just say "Google it" but what you are looking for is an extension that implements "Dependent Options" of which there are several.
There are many in the extension store but a Google Search works better than the built-in search, so try these:
https://www.google.com/search?q=opencart+dependent+options
As always look for extensions from reputable OpenCart developers with loads of downloads, 5 star votes and positive comments.
Here is an example:
https://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=marketplace/extension/info&extension_id=13882
838 sales. 5 stars and "MarketInSG" are well known and good developers.
Go to products->edit(or) add product->option tab. Here you can add the sizes of the product. once you add one size you automatically get the price tab. You can decrease or increase the price of your product for that specific size there.
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I'm having a problem using Google Finance historical data. I need to know the price a particular stock had on a particular date (Usually within the last month).
The problem is, when I use a URL such as https://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=abx I get different results depending on where I issue the query from.
At home I'm in Argentina and my production server is in the US... when I run the query locally I get the prices in AR$, but when run from the server I get USD (Which is what I actually need).
I tried using a X-Forwared-For header but didn't make a difference...
Ideally I'd like to send an extra parameter (something like cur=USD) to explicitly ask for USD... is there such a thing?
Thanks
I use, currency conversion along with the price of the stock.
For Example:
Price of ABB Ltd in SEK = GOOGLEFINANCE("ABB","price") * GOOGLEFINANCE(("CURRENCY:USDSEK"))
Then I format the cells, rows, columns with prices to local currency(i.e. SEK) as mentioned in the link: Format Numbers in excel.
You could add other parameters such as date as mentioned in below link:
Get exchange rate on a specific date from GoogleFinance
I have a bit of a unique problem here. I currently have two warehouses that I ship items out of for selling on Amazon, my primary warehouse and my secondary warehouse. Shipping out of the secondary warehouse takes significantly longer than shipping from the main warehouse, hence why it is referred to as the "secondary" warehouse.
Some of our inventory is split between the two warehouses. Usually this is not an issue, but we keep having a particular issue. Allow me to explain:
Let's say that I have 10 red cups in the main warehouse, and an additional 300 in the secondary warehouse. Let's also say it's Christmas time, so I have all 310 listed. However, from what I've seen, Amazon only allows one shipping time to be listed for the inventory, so the entire 310 get listed as under the primary warehouse's shipping time (2 days) and doesn't account for the secondary warehouse's ship time, rather than split the way that they should be, 10 at 2 days and 300 at 15 days.
The problem comes in when someone orders an amount that would have to be split across the two warehouses, such as if someone were to order 12 of said red cups. The first 10 would come out of the primary warehouse, and the remaining two would come out of the secondary warehouse. Due to the secondary warehouse's shipping time, the remaining two cups would have to be shipped out at a significantly different date, but Amazon marks the entire order as needing to be shipped within those two days.
For a variety of reasons, it is not practical to keep all of one product in one warehouse, nor is it practical to increase the secondary warehouse's shipping time. Changing the overall shipping date for the product to the longest ship time causes us to lose the buy box for the listing, which really defeats the purpose of us trying to sell it.
So my question is this: is there some way in MWS to indicate that the inventory is split up in terms of shipping times? If so, how?
Any assistance in this matter would be appreciated.
Short answer: No.
There is no way to specify two values for FulfillmentLatency, in the same way as there is no way to specify two values for Quantity in stock. You can only ever have one inventory with them (plus FBA stock)
Longer answer: You could.
Sign up twice with Amazon:
"MySellerName" has an inventory of 10 and a fulfillment latency of 2 days
"MySellerName Overseas Warehouse" has an inventory of 300 and a fulfillment latency of 30 days
I haven't tried by I believe Amazon will then automatically direct the customer to the best seller for them, which should be "MySellerName" for small orders and "MySellerName Overseas Warehouse" for larger quantities.
I'm attempting to set up an OpenCart store for a client.
I'm getting the following error on the shipping page.
"Warning: No Shipping options are available. Please contact us for assistance!"
Research suggests that this error happens when there is a mismatch between the weight-class for the store and for the plugin, or something similar.
I've tried every combination of configuration settings that I can think of without result.
I'm not familiar enough with OpenCart to debug this issue. Where do I need to start looking?
Firstly you have to enable the shipping status and the values from admin panel shipping tab.After that you can get it in the front end.
My troubleshooting procedure:
The store weight UOM had been set to ounces.
The Fedex plugin doesn't support ounces as a weight UOM.
Nothing works.
The store weight UOM was changed to LBS.
Nothing works.
The package size was set to FedEx 10 KG Box
The Fedex plugin can't convert from Lbs to KG on the fly.
The package size was changed to "Fedex Box", without a weight class
Some products now working, all shipping estimates are WAY high.
When changing the default UOM for the store, no existing weights are converted in to the new units, although any weights stored without a unit are now read as being in the new unit.
This meant that the fedex system was trying to pull prices for items that "weighed" hundred of ounces (which it should have been able to do, even though those weights were incorrect.)
I updated the weights on all products to be in line with their unit of measure
At this point, the plugin was working for most, but not all, products, with reasonable accuracy.
I changed the plugin settings from List Rate to Account rate.
Now everything works.
To simplify - The fedex shipping plugin in opencart 1.5.6 will only work if:
All the products in the system have their weights stored in the same UOM.
That UOM is either pounds or kilograms (not ounces!)
A geozone is set, and a zip code is supplied(zip codes are important!)
The package size matches the unit of measure for the weight (no mixing kilograms and pounds!)
The product weights are actually correct
The account in question has a rate for a package of the indicated size
Hopefully someone else will find this helpful.
Ive been through this problem as well and I haven't yet fixed it completely.
But in my particular problem, I had a syntax error in the XML retrieved by the Fedex server after the cURL request.
Printing the $response variable I could find some good hints about some of the problems, for example, commas (,) instead of dots (.) to refer to decimal numbers and decimal numbers where it was expecting an integer.
So var_dump($response) could help some people find their specific issues.
i want to list all available industries ( like: http://biz.yahoo.com/p/ ) and show all corresponding stocks.
Until now I'm using YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback for the symbol suggestion and http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=... for getting the stock's data.
Does anyone have any idea how to get all industries and corresponding stocks?
Is there another hidden Yahoo API?
Lists of all available industries are called GICS Sectors for Standard and Poor's (S&P500 will use that) and ICB for Dow Jones and FTSE. Hence it used by Nasdaq, Nyse and others markets.
It seems like Yahoo uses a third industry classification by Morning Star, but since I'm not quite sure I will give both ways of retrieving data.
Morning Star
I don't know if Yahoo really sticks to this classification, but some names were really close so let's see it:
You need to go to their Index Data and in each sector, click on it and then at the bottom View complete index holdings.
It's not as precise as in Yahoo industry list, but it's all you can do with Morning Star. Not very convincing, I know...
GICS Sectors
GICS Sectors are now a trademark of Standard and Poor's and then data have to be sought for in S&P's website.
Short answer: take a look at this page, you will need to be registered (it's free and easy) and you can download spreadsheets (xls) with stocks and corresponding sectors. Nevertheless, things aren't always easy, and you will have to do a bit of a search to retrieve all stocks with their corresponding industries. For example, the file INDICATED_RATE_CHANGE.xls will give you some companies and their sectors in each month of 2012. Using that and SP500_DividendAristocrats_2012.xls you should be able to retrieve at least a large part of S&P 500 companies.
ICB
ICB is used by NYSE, NASDAQ etc... Then it's a lot simpler than S&P and MorningStar. Here is your answer. BOOM! Direct link!
Link is dead :(
Finally
I strongly advise you to use the simpler and most-used industry classification index: the ICB. It will always be available and publicly displayed since millions of investors relay everyday on it, without having to use S&P financial services or MorningStar brokerage services...
EDIT
You can look at nasdaq.com to retrieve all companies and their corresponding sector: here for Nasdaq and here for Nyse
Get all industry-IDs from here:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ind_index.html
(look at the links)
Then use YQL ( https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ )
with a query like this:
select * from yahoo.finance.industry where id=912
Having implemented an algorithm to recommend products with some success, I'm now looking at ways to calculate the initial input data for this algorithm.
My objective is to calculate a score for each product that a user has some sort of history with.
The data I am currently collecting:
User order history
Product pageview history for both anonymous and registered users
All of this data is timestamped.
What I'm looking for
There are a couple of things I'm looking for suggestions on, and ideally this question should be treated more for discussion rather than aiming for a single 'right' answer.
Any additional data I can collect for a user that can directly imply an interest in a product
Algorithms/equations for turning this data into scores for each product
What I'm NOT looking for
Just to avoid this question being derailed with the wrong kind of answers, here is what I'm doing once I have this data for each user:
Generating a number of user clusters (21 at the moment) using the k-means clustering algorithm, using the pearsons coefficient for the distance score
For each user (on demand) calculating their a graph of similar users by looking for their most and least similar users within their cluster, and repeating for an arbitrary depth.
Calculating a score for each product based on the preferences of other users within the user's graph
Sorting the scores to return a list of recommendations
Basically, I'm not looking for ideas on what to do once I have the input data (I may need further help with that later, but it's not the point of this question), just for ideas on how to generate this input data in the first place
Here's a haymaker of a response:
time spent looking at a product
semantic interpretation of comments left about the product
make a discussion page about a product, brand, or product category and semantically interpret the comments
if they Shared a product page (email, del.icio.us, etc.)
browser (mobile might make them spend less time on the page vis-à-vis laptop while indicating great interest) and connection speed (affects amt. of time spent on the page)
facebook profile similarity
heatmap data (e.g. à la kissmetrics)
What kind of products are you selling? That might help us answer you better. (Since this is an old question, I am addressing both #Andrew Ingram and anyone else who has the same question and found this thread through search.)
You can allow users to explicitly state their preferences, the way netflix allows users to assign stars.
You can assign a positive numeric value for all the stuff they bought, since you say you do have their purchase history. Assign zero for stuff they didn't buy
You could do some sort of weighted value for stuff they bought, adjusted for what's popular. (if nearly everybody bought a product, it doesn't tell you much about a person that they also bought it) See "term frequency–inverse document frequency"
You could also assign some lesser numeric value for items that users looked at but did not buy.