for small or cheap products a customer should often order only a larger amount of pieces. In this spirit, Magento shop offers the possibility for administrators or editors to specify the minimum amount of pieces specifically for every product.
In aimeos I have only found so far the possibilty to specify a global minimum amount for pieces in the basket which does not distinguish between the products.
For my project it is a mandatory feature to specify the minimum amount of pieces specifically for every single product. Have I overlooked something in aimeos? What is the best way to achieve this feature?
Many thanks in advance!
TYPO3 7.6.13, Aimeos web shop 16.10.1, PHP version 5.6.24-0+deb8u1, Linux
In Aimeos, you can configure global values for the complete basket and for every product using the ProductLimit basket plugin. For more information, have a look at the Aimeos forum topic
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Background
We are a B2B company with no in-house developers. We're current outsourcing all our development work to a small software company. They've built their own custom CMS, which we are using.
At the moment, we're in a redesign phase where a new website is being build by this same software company, again tailored to work with their custom build CMS.
At the same time, we are planning to have a webshop, which is going to be built by a different company, a big E-Commerce software company.
What we need
In the end it should be one website, on the same domain. Where content and commerce should go hand in hand. Everything should be seamlessly integrated with each other, for example the search function (they both offer their own search engine), content and products.
Wouldn't it make more sense to let one company build everything instead of two different companies? What are plus or downsides to work with one or two companies in this case? Where could it go wrong?
I'm a bit scared when we work with two partners, that the total cost of ownership is going to rise to the moon. That it will bring a lot of inefficiencies with it and we're hindered when it comes to further scaling.
P.S. I'm not a final decision maker within this company, but I'm looking for input in order to change the current plan (which is working with two partners).
An interesting scenario that you are in here.
Wouldn't it make more sense to let one company build everything instead of two different companies?
Based on your description there is nothing in this that is particularly out of the ordinary. A website for your company with an online shop. There is no good reason why you need two contractors. What I mean here, is that there is no reason why one company cannot provide the expertise to deliver both parts. Adding a second company / contractor will add more complexity to the situation and therefore breaks the generally good rule of keep it simple. (More on this later).
What are plus or downsides to work with one or two companies in this case?
The positive of working with two companies is that you can get experts in the different areas. For example if company A is an expert in one part of the solution and company B is an expert in another you get the combined expertise. However, in this case there doesn't seem to be a need for this.
Where could it go wrong?
This is very much the downside of having two companies working on this. The two companies will need to work together to provide the solution. This is likely to require some management from you (or your company) which you correctly identify the cost of ownership can significantly increase. You run the risk of both of your contractors pointing the finger at each other when things go wrong.
I would strongly recommend at least considering using a single company for the whole project delivering a combined website and online shop.
I need to create an interactive form (to be used in Joomla) with some multiple options to choose from which gives the summary at the end when the user got to final question to choose from (for example to calculate the cost of shippment: first there is the basic price and then if someone wants fast delivery he picks up this field and extra charge is added to the total amount with information what has been added in that price). What is the best way or plugin/extension to be used in Joomla?
I tried to look for such solution with no results.
I have done similar using RSForms Pro by RSJoomla. It is extremely powerful, but note it is a paid extension. https://www.rsjoomla.com/joomla-extensions/joomla-form.html
I have Magento 2 store and looking jet.com for sales point of view.
Is this possible ?
Please suggest me any possible solution.
Thank you.
You have a couple options:
You can directly integrate with CedCommerce's commercial extension.
You can use a third-party omnichannel integrator that will sync catalog data, inventory and orders to any of a number of marketplaces. While there are a number of these platforms, there aren't many right now that have ready-made integrations with both Jet and Magento. Two that I have found are SellerCloud and ChannelSale. One thing to note is that these typically become the center of your e-commerce operation, with Magento pushed to the fringe, as just another marketplace alongside Jet. That may be good or bad depending on your business model and existing architecture.
Note that I have no first-hand experience with using these integrations or omnichannel platforms like this, so I cannot personally vouch for their quality.
I'm searching for a shopping cart or web store framework that supports multiple vendors.
There are many, many shopping cart frameworks out there: that page lists couple of hundred. In spite of the comparisons on that page, supporting multiple vendors isn't a comparison item, probably because it's a rare requirement. Separate to that page I have evaluated a few of what appear to be the top frameworks, and none that I evaluated supported this feature. Which carts would you recommend?
Commercial is okay, although I would prefer open source.
Platform (Windows, Linux, ASP.Net, PHP, Ruby... Minix, Fortran... :)) doesn't matter.
A system
where I manually add vendors who request it (instead of them freely
being able to sign up) is also okay, if there's a store where that's
possible but freely joining up isn't built in yet.
Rationale: I'd like to create an app-store like website. "App store" is a close analogy: it won't sell apps, but it will sell digital goods and I'd like anyone to be able to sell their item on the store. It's this second requirement, multiple vendors selling through the store, that I'm finding hard to satisfy.
I've used multiple shopping cart frameworks (a lot of them broken), and my favorite (which just so happens to support multiple vendors) is PrestaShop. It's free, open source, and suppports all that you asked for. Is this the framework you were looking for?
-JXP
The Wikipedia page you cited lists multiple vendor support as a column in Other Features, along with features that are pertinent to your search.
This question otherwise requires domain knowledge and likely requires multiple answers. The best I can do is offer the bounded set of software that competes directly within this space, at least according to Wikipedia.
The easiest solution for achieving your stated goal of allowing multiple people to sell on your site while exercising fine-grained control of who can and cannot do so is perhaps using WPMU's MarketPress in tandem with BuddyPress or WordPress Multisite. I'm not a die-hard fan of WordPress, per se, but that might be an expedient way for you to get to a minimal viable product and to validate your idea before shelling out the time and/or cash to custom build it from the ground up, and/or labor ad nauseam with tweaking an existing framework. MarketPress is a good plug-in that'll give you many of the features of a full-fledged e-commerce framework... BuddyPress, of course, will allow you to set up individual vendor's with their own sites under your brand. The two work together. More on MarketPress at:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/e-commerce/installation/
Another alternative is Jimdo's PagePartners. I haven't used it, but it looks intriguing. I like their design sensibilities, and their stated business ethos. This might be a viable option, too. The caveat being: it's not white label. More info about Jimdo's PagePartners here:
http://www.jimdo.com/pagepartner/faq/
Finally, another interesting CMS to explore is SetSeed. I think it'll allow you to launch multiple sites for each vendor via a central hub you control, and will allow you to maintain your branding within each. How, the,n any sort of renumeration would flow back to you for setting up an individual vendor's store would be up to you to figure out... This is a fairly new CMS and it looks like it's evolving smartly and rapidly. If you require some customization of it, to approach more specifically what you ask for, now might be a good time to reach out to the developer...but you might be able to think of an effective way to adapt it for your use right out of the box.
http://setseed.com/multi-site-cms/setseed-hub/
Unfortunately, none of the above is open-source--but, again, the ease by which you could get to a functional site approximating your idea may off-set that drawback. Jimdo is an open-source contributor, however. So, maybe even an e-mail to them might be a fruitful dialogue to begin. If anything, check out each of the above, and it may influence how you search for other solutions, and will at least provide some models in your own thinking or with other developers. The shopping cart is an integrated feature, I believe, in all of the above cases. With regard to giving your vendors the capacity to deliver digital goods (e-books, mp3s, etc.), check out Fetchapp.com. Very cool app. Very easy to set-up...could probably be rolled into one of the above frameworks. The frameworks would handle the issue of individual vendor profiles and/or sub-domains.
How can I use/setup Tier Pricing with Configurable Products? (Magento 1.4+)
There was an extension to do this but I think it is only for Magento 1.3.
Tried to setup tiers in my Simple Products, but those do not show up, or do not activate when I add to cart from my Config Product page.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks.
Edit:
In my case, I would like to use the Tier Pricing FROM the Simple Product. and not use the Tier Pricing from the Config. Product
Configurable products do not use any of the information from simple products apart from the attribute values on which the configurable product is pivoted. That means that Descriptions, Prices, Images and other data can be changed in the simple products, and the configurable products will not be changed whatsoever.
Unfortunately, hacking the price of a product in the Magento cart is difficult, as it is refreshed from the record every time the page is loaded, so what you're trying to accomplish isn't going to happen any time soon.
Your best bet might be to write a short script that will grab the simple product prices and update the configurable product record periodically. This would not need to hack through the Magento logic to work.
Hope that helps. Thanks,
Joe
For anyone reading this, use this free extension:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Matt+Dean/extension/596/simple-configurable-products#overview
It will take the pricing from the simple product the only downside is you manually have to come up with a way to show the tiers on the configurable product page.
I know this is an old thread, but I just came across this myself. I am on Magento CE 1.6 and the extension recommended here was only up to 1.5.
I found that Grouped products do exactly that - they pull pricing (as well as tiered pricing) from the simple product. They are very easy to set up and work as expected.
I know this is an old thread, but following up to say that the Simple Configurable Products extension works great at updating the price in a simple manner.
Having one problem however. I only have a product image assigned to my configurable product, not the simple ones linked to it. When I add a product to my cart with this extension it adds the simple product, which means there is no product image. Is there a way to display the parent photo in cart? Totally find editing code if that will get it working.
I found a simple workaround for this, i have a configurable product with 3 options, e put this three options visible only for catalog and then assign this simple products to a categorie named tier prices, so, customer who want quantity discount just have to browse that category and found there all the available products.
Hope this help!!
Regards,