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Shopping Cart

New to Tiki5

We now have a basic Cart

What

The plan is to build a lightweight, basic e-commerce system in TikiWiki by making good use of existing features and by adding a few things. E-commerce is was one of the rare Use Cases not addressed by Tiki until Tiki5. Please read Skype log below for debate/discussion.

A typical use will be a mostly informational website to sell a few products & services.

  • Selling registration to various packages for events. (Ex.: day 1 package, day 2 package, full event package)
  • Selling memberships (Ex.: 1 year, 3 year, etc.)
  • Selling a few dozen products (books, software downloads, etc)

For this, the overhead of a full-featured shopping cart like ZenCart is not necessary.

Who & What

  • Marc Laporte, requirements & testing
  • Sylvie Greverend, coding
  • You? (add your name!)

Details

Basic online ordering functionality for a Tiki-powered site can be seen at reseau-environnement.com. Wiki pages are used for product information and the tracker forms are filled thanks to PluginTrackerPrefill. Also, some rewrite-rules were used to handle https. It's sufficient for this project but it's clunky. And it only works for single item shopping. There is no connection to a payment gateway. No calculated totals.

There are some efforts underway for a full-fledged integration with ZenCart. This will be the option for people with more advanced e-commerce needs (upsell / cross-sell, multiple currencies, inventory, discounts, etc.) and it will require more work to install and maintain.

We need something better than the forms we have but not to the level of a standalone shopping cart.

Plan

For the new lightweight Tiki Cart or (Tiki Commerce?), from current code base, we'll use:

  • User trackers for profiles (name, phone number, ship to address, bill to address, etc).
  • trackers to manage products, with categories and filters
  • Wiki pages for products which include structured data from trackers, and use nice template (editable as a wiki page).
  • As suggested by Alain (on the Skype chat), only ask to fill out profile after the order is ready to go.
  • To keep things simple, there would be an address (maybe 2 since sometimes, bill to is different than ship to) in the user profile, and this info would be used at the time of the order (and thus recorded with the order)
  • tiki-cart.php should be not only to add items to a shopping cart, it should also be more generic to add items to other batch actions (ex.: print all wiki pages in cart, mass delete all these pages, mass watch all these pages, etc)

Needed:

  • "Add to cart" button in wiki pages
  • A simple cart like this
  • better https handling
  • link to PayPal and Google Checkout?
  • Email confirmations

Nice to have:

  • Order logging
    • For sure, a copy of the order will be sent out by email (to site administrator and to the customer).
    • If we use Paypal, a copy of the info will be logged in Paypal. However, for b2b, payment will not be handled. So it would be nice to have a Web interface to check previous orders. Users should be able to access this from their user profile.

A full shopping cart would be the next step.

Please also see:

Skype chat log 2008-06-11

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental_management_software

Contributors to this page: Jean-François B.513 points  , xavi1688 points  and Marc Laporte2679 points  .
Page last modified on Monday 07 June, 2010 20:00:53 UTC by Jean-François B.513 points .

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