Mark Bowen Shopping Cart Plug-in

Hi I have been building a website for a clothing store, and our shopping cart is currently only in Japanese. Basically I have the entire site already built and running in EE, and I would rather pug a shopping cart into what I already have instead of build something new

anyway I need something to control inventory. I have one set of templates in english, and another in Japanese. Each are pulling information from the same ‘product’ weblog. We need something where somebody can order from either the japanese or english page, and it would subtract the inventory count in the weblog entry

also, we wound need to just manage the order via email, since 2/3rds of the customers are japanese and the payment options are completely different

Hiya,

anyway I need something to control inventory. I have one set of templates in english, and another in Japanese. Each are pulling information from the same ‘product’ weblog. We need something where somebody can order from either the japanese or english page, and it would subtract the inventory count in the weblog entry

The plugin doesn’t deal with inventory count at all, you would probably need to write an extension to deal with this sort of thing or perhaps a plugin on a template that gets called and updates the weblog entry field.

also, we wound need to just manage the order via email, since 2/3rds of the customers are japanese and the payment options are completely different

This is definitely possible as the plugin allows you to output the information wherever, whenever and however you wish. You can simply output the plugins information into hidden fields in a form which is then sent off to you so that you get the details sent over.

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Am I missing something here? When I link to the ‘Product Page’ on the original post, I’m taken to a page about the Legato template, not the info on the plugin. Any chance someone can fix this up.

Cheers Brendan

Hi Brendan,

Am I missing something here? When I link to the ‘Product Page’ on the original post, I’m taken to a page about the Legato template, not the info on the plugin. Any chance someone can fix this up. Cheers Brendan

Sorry about that. The product is no longer for sale on eetemplates.com and instead is for sale directly from me via e-mail. Hopefully Marcus will see this post and edit his original post above.

Best wishes,

Mark

DOH! Forgot this was here. Yea as Mark mentioned he is selling it directly now. But purchase with confidence. Mark is pretty alright 😉

DOH! Forgot this was here. Yea as Mark mentioned he is selling it directly now. But purchase with confidence. Mark is pretty alright 😉

Pretty alright? 😉

yeah I mean you are just ok. not super duper cool like I am but an alright kind of guy. 😉

yeah I mean you are just ok. not super duper cool like I am but an alright kind of guy. 😉

Well I knew I’d never reach rock star status like yourself but I’m working on it 😉

Hi Mark,

I would like to build something like this, I mean a list of categories with a description, then clicking on a category would lead to a page with all the items for that category, with detail page for every item.

I see that you built something similar for http://www.flyheli.co.uk but I think your implementation is quite different.

Could you tell me how you created different categories inside the “cart” group? I can’t find any reference inside the documentation.pdf.

I know this is a basic question, but if I can figure out, I’ll go with your plugin!

Thanks a lot.

Marco

Hi Marco,

The plugin has absolutely nothing to do with categories or the way you lay out your site templates at all. I would suggest getting your site setup using categories or whatever other method you wish and as long as you have a single entry template for the final entry / product then you will be fine.

I don’t supply any details of how to do this sort of thing as this is not handled by the plugin rather this is standard ExpressionEngine code that you will use to get that going.

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Mark,

I built a multilanguage web site, attached SCM module and tested with PayPal sandbox; all is working well.

With a little bit of tweaking now I’m able to have two different prices for the same item: one in euros (for the european section) and one in dollars (rest of the world), based on the language of the site.

Let’s pretend I’m on the european section, if I click “add to cart” the paypal shopping cart appears with all details for the item. When I switch language and go to the US section, if I click the same “add to cart” button I get the following message:

“You may only add items denominated in Euros to this Cart for this merchant. If you would like to purchase items using a different currency, remove all items from this cart and then add an item in your desired currency.”

Now, PayPal is right and gives me this warning message…but what can you tell me about your plugin? How can it handle this?

Thanks for your support

Marco

Hi Marco,

As you say I think this is definitely a PayPal issue. I think that all items added to PayPal need to be in the same currency. To tell the truth I can’t really see why you would want people purchasing in different currencies as that’s not really the correct thing for someone to be doing due to tax laws and all sorts of other things.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi everybody,

I’m using Mark’s plugin and I must say it works very well, but I’ve recently discovered a strange behavior on my site. I visited http://www.flyheli.co.uk and I noticed the same thing:

let’s say I want to buy two flights:

1) Five Seat Half Hour Helicopter Trial Lesson (3) 2) Robinson R22 Flight Discovery Day (3)

In the example above I’ve chosen three items for each flight;

now if I want to decrease quantity for the first item, it may happen that the rows of the table suddenly switch and the result may be:

2) Robinson R22 Flight Discovery Day (3) 1) Five Seat Half Hour Helicopter Trial Lesson (2)

Is there a way to fix it?

Thanks

Marco

Hi Mark.

I am interested in your Shopping Cart Plugin… how can I get a copy ? Is it still in circulation ? Purchasable ? Any clues on pricing? Can’t seem to find any leads to the plugin ?