Ecommerce

ZenCart Simple Attributes Stock Tracking

12 June 2006

I developed a quantity by attribute modification for ZenCart for a client about six months ago. It has been working very well for them, but it only supports simple attributes. Size OR color OR fabric not size AND color or size AND fabric. The complexity and time involved with maintaining such a detailed inventory of [...]

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ZenCart Sales Report State Filter

5 June 2006

The ZenCart Sales Report contribution allows a site owner to easily and quickly generate sales reports with many different filters. The one missing filter was a state or local zone filter. This filter would be useful for figuring out total local sales for state sales tax purposes. I have updated the contribution to include this [...]

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ZenCart Shipping and Payment Modules For Development Testing

25 May 2006

Testing the final steps of the order process on a ZenCart can be a pain as you must repeat the steps over and over; selecting a shipping method and entering in payment information. With these two modules all orders from a configurable list of IPs have access to an additional shipping method and payment option [...]

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DHL Shipping Automation For ZenCart

19 May 2006

DHL EasyShip allows you to easily automate shipping processes. EasyShip allows a user to weigh a package, supply destination information and print a pre-paid package slip. The EasyShip tools communicate with DHL’s servers over the Internet to rate and purchase the service and can notify them a local pickup is ready. The system can also [...]

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The Pay No Attention Era

18 May 2006

It is well talked about that our attention spans are shrinking all the time. I have noticed it in myself more and more of late. I bought a Tivo in late 2000 and have been watching recorded TV almost exclusively since then (I was already videotaping my few shows at the time). PVR’s and time [...]

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ZenCart Expected / Upcoming Products Page

15 May 2006

ZenCart includes an expected products box to list upcoming products release dates. By default the box only displays on the index and category pages as a center box, low on the page. I am developing a pre-ordering system for a current client and we thought it would be more useful to give customers a full [...]

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ZenCart Authorize.net AIM Module Broken When Using cURL Binary

4 May 2006

The ZenCart default Authorize.net AIM (authorizenet_aim.php) module has a problem when using the binary version of cURL. exec() returns the executed function output as an array. To properly use this array return, we need to pop off the first array element and explode() it at the commas. Original // The commented line below is an [...]

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Special Imports and Exports For ZenCart

26 April 2006

One of the major weaknesses of an open source package like ZenCart is the lack of support for third party applications. Sure you can insert products by hand and process orders, but what if you already have products in another form such a Point of Sale system or inventory management system? What about integrating the [...]

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Why Do We Shop Online?

19 April 2006

Why do we shop? We need things. We want things. Things necessary for our day to day lives, things to make our lives easier, things for work, things for fun, sometimes just things. Traditional shopping is an experience. We look, we touch, we try on, we smell, we listen, we walk, we talk, we get [...]

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Who Does Not Need A Website?

4 April 2006

I recently received a call from a new aquaintance; friend of a friend. In the small talk following the introduction he asked what I did and I tried to explain in non-techie terms. From our conversation, my new friend gleaned that I did websites. [I may have done one generic, static website in my career, [...]

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