$$$ Shopping Cart Module $$$

[hudge]

I keep seeing the demand for a wbcart. However this is a HUGE undertaking. I would highly recommend litecommerce or phpcart or oscommerce if you need to do a cart.

BUT if there are enough willing people out there to help contribute either cash or coding, it can be done. I made the paypal cart and numerous other mods. If people are willing I will determine the amount of hours it will take for a base cart and we can get that time cover financially I will over see a team of programmers to get this done.

For those willing to contribute please pm me your contact info.

Thanks
hudge

[web-based-media]

Hm, I would be highly interested in such a cart.

The only thing I do not like concerning this offer is, that this is not an advertising platform here and it does not sound like OpenSource to me...

If I am wrong with this or misunderstood something: SORRY.

Best Regards,
Jan

[Panther]

Just because WB is open source does not mean that every module released for it would have to be... even if the code were shared.

I think the creator of FlashChat has struck a nice balance in that overall regard. He charges a nominal fee ($5) for his programs (with volume discounts), and includes the source code so it can be modified to your own needs. Many add-ons have been done by third parties that are offered for free to the users, some need to be purchased, and many times tweeks that are made by users are incorporated in to future releases (I've had coding I've tweeked or added included over the last couple years).

A full-blown shopping cart would be a fairly involved project, possibly large in scope than WB itself and I don't see anything wrong with someone asking for payment or donations.

I actually could use a shopping cart with some more advanced features and would be willing to pay a bit for it... my problem is that what I sell is only to help support the existing site itself, so I can't afford to invest hundreds in a package.

[saschas]

I think a CMS and a shop are two different things.
A catalogue or more advanced GoCart would be enough for a CMS.
If you want a real shop you can run one of those mentioned above or something like freewebshop.

Greetings from belgium, Sascha
 

[BerndJM]

Mhhh ...
a fully integrated shop would be a nice thing, but is it a "must have"?
I think a full working - shop and a CMS are two different things.
And why reinvent the wheel? Aren't there some good working shops "on the market"?
From my point of view a good working wrapper to an existing shop-system would be the easier way.

Regards Bernd

[saschas]

Hi again,

@bernd: I think you don't eaven need a wrapper, cause this would get you two different menu-structures.
I solve this with a simple link to the shop which is normally on under a subdomain (http://shop.domain.tld) and it works perfekt for me. By the way, most shopping systems offer a kind of CMS-features to add additional pages WYSIWYG like to your shop.
Like I sayed above, and agreeing with Bernd, CMS and shop are 2 different systems.
Take a look at LX-Office, there the ERP, CRM and onlineshop are kept as 3 different systems yust sharing the product and user tables mostly by im-/export functions and it works perfect.
Who wants to give onlineshop clients an access to the CRM?? they don't really need that one.

Greetings from belgium, Sascha

[BerndJM]

Saschas you'r right,

"wrapper" would be the wrong word for that what I meant
(English ist not really my language )
I should say "gateway"? (Schnittstelle) between the shop and the cms to share relevant data.

Regards Bernd

[saschas]

Hi Bernd,

I don't think you'd eaven need a Schittstelle (gateway), cause there is no relevant data to share between the CMS and the shop.
Like I sayed above, client data can not be seen as something belonging in the usermanagment of a CMS, cause actually the usermanagment grantes access of different type to the pages of the CMS.
Look at the SMF forum plugin. It is installable via the addons but actually is a complete different system.
Beeing registered as user in SMF gives you no acces to websitebaker. Cause they use different user-tables.
What one could do as a shop is, f.e. take the freewebshop of www.freewebshop.org or any other free shopping system and implement it in the same way as the SMF forum is, so installable via addons, but including the mainmenustructure of websitebaker.
I think this really is what most of us are looking for.

oh, yea and the costs of corse are 0.00 $ or €

Greetings from belgium, Sascha

[ton_cut345]

anybody here a shoping cart module that is so simple??

simple like.

theres a product catalogue displaying a product. then theres a button something like reserve button.
then displays all his/her items. when he/she checks out there is a total amount displayed, where he/she will pick the items. after accepting the check out it emails the site administrator or site owner that he/she wants to reserve this item and picks that item at this branch..

[saschas]

Nope,

the only cart module that exists for WB is GoCart. Everybody else uses other shops like freewebshop or cubecart.
I do prefer freewebshop from freewebshop.org, cause it has a simple admininterface and even allows to edit some pages like shipping, payment + it's multilingual if you want to. It offers all you need for a simple shop without beeing to complex.

Greetings from belgium,

Sascha