This has been a thorn in my side for a while. I'm not ruling out any platforms / CMS / shopping carts at this point since I cant seem to find a clear solution anywhere. I want at the very least to find one feasible solution.
I'm trying to find a way to create a buyback shopping cart for a buyback site so I can purchase books from students as part of my business. This is the reverse of platforms now with items sold to consumers, but instead I'll be buying. The only related software I found on the market was a plugin for Magento oriented towards cellphone buyback sites: http://magento.ikantam.com/store/electronics-trade.html
Its the same principle but the process is eccentrically focused on phones with static prices (I'll be integrating a buyback algorithm) so that $250 would be more wisely spent elsewhere to create a custom solution for my own buyback process with books.
Here are sites implementing buyback carts:
https://www.sellbackyourbook.com/
In summary, are there any available shopping cart options where they are "buyback" carts instead? What would be my best bet for finding a buyback shopping cart? Where should I go to find a solution? What are your personal thoughts / suggestions?
Update: I've been told that the time it takes to modify any market shopping cart would exceed the time needed to write an entire custom shopping cart from scratch. Not sure if this is solid advice. I've also been told that the carts in these sites all are 100% custom - although im not sure if this means its built from the ground up or uses another shopping cart as a base to build off of.
What "caliber" of a project would a custom shopping cart like the one shown in these sites be? Is this a colossal task or it relatively easy for a competent programmer? What would a custom shopping cart like these generally cost? Any referrals on where I should source programmers to create me one? Would it be naive to seek a developer on Freelancer?
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I am building an html5 site for someone and I am wondering what the best option would be for a shopping cart. I want something that will be integrated on the various pages, not just a separate area for a shop, although we may utilize that option also. She has used ZenCart on her other sites, but perhaps there is something better. I am not a developer so the simpler the better. There is a lot of merchandise to list. Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
You can use OpenCart. Its easy to make websites using it.
zencart is easy to edit ,even in code level.
but opencart is more powerful than zencart,especially in marketing and image manager.
so ,I also recommend opencart.
I'm very new to shopingcarts and am very impressed with Opencart. After looking under the hood, is there a way to allow users who register to add their own products to be sold? In effect, it becomes a B2B site like alibaba.com or ebay.
Feel free to correct me if I'm not approaching this the right way. I'm also open to other suggestions on which cart I should be using...as long as it's not Magento. hehe
That would require extensive modding, you definitely won't find this solution for free. I personally don't think this platform is well-suited for this, but of course it could be done, it's a straightforward MVC platform.
I an building a kind of social network (think of it as last.fm, but gaming related). I want to have a homepage which will feature:
site news, announcements etc. in the main part
featured items in the right sidebar
player of the week in the right sidebar
I am trying to think of a way not to be hand coding these every time they need to change, which I understand is terrible design. However, I can't think of much.
I realize I need some kind of simple blog engine for the site news and such, but what about the featured content in the sidebar? Should there be a table in the database containing the featured items of the week? I think that will pollute my models.py with unnecessary stuff.
Please share any ideas.
There are lots of ready-to-go solutions ie.
Pinax - great package of reusable apps,
Django CMS - not so great, but could be useful.
Django's static pages - for basic stuff :)
I'd try pinax first - it has all of what you need.
As for your featured stuff - it all depends on what exactly you need, on your content.
If you need something special you'd probably finish up writing this stuff by yourself,
or overriding parts of ready-to-go solutions.
Featured Items and Player of the Week will depend (usually) on your project specific Player / Item models. It shouldn't take long to program these small pieces.
As far as news, there are quite a few different solutions out there. Here's one that I've created (because I can't think of a better one off hand):
http://github.com/monokrome/django-news/
The best bet with django is to find the smaller apps you might be able to leverage, and then write your own project with your custom wants/needs in mind.
So i am going to take my first hack at implementing a shopping cart module into an existing site.
My hosting co. comes with 3 options that use the Fantistico auto installer: OSCommerce, CubeCart, and Zen Cart.
Is there a better solution out of those three?
I also need to obtain a merchants account right?
A pity that you said "existing site" as there are many fine - and free - CMS out there which include shopping carts - and many, mnay, many other great features.
If you would consider "porting" your site to one, then I highly recommend visiting the CMS Matrix. Take a look at the free (and already debugged) modules for page cretion, mailing lists, wikis, polls, security, multi-language support ... the list just goes on.
At the site you can also select features which interest you and search for all CMS which offer them and compare the results (the CMS matrix).
I recommend that you at least consider this (and you can't go wrong with Drupal).
And, yes, you will need a merchant accoun to accept credit cards , PayPal, etc (best use SSL too)
Good luck!
ZEN Cart seems to be able to do anything I could possibly ever want, but seems a bit bloated (for me) and more importantly - it's design process seems unbearable. I don't want to have reform a default design, I have my website design completed other than the shopping cart related items. I want to be able to add them in, working the shopping cart into my site, rather than the other way around. I need a shopping cart that can handle discounts and inventories and such, and of course as small as possible. Can anyone help recommend an OS cart that will allow this?
Thank so much for your time and suggestions!!
You didn't ask for any platform/languages in particular, so.
If you're using Django, then Satchmo looks to be an attractive option. Even if you're not, it might be fairly trivial to mash in, depending on how your site is set up.
You could consider using the cart that Google Checkout provides — is a JS system , easily themed with CSS (if you can learn to accept the !important tag), but SimpleCartJs is as easy as it comes, and it's for PayPal. Re-styles easily and it's pretty elegant.