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By kulfi on
I've gone through the fine print (handbooks, documentation, ...) so I must be missing something obvious. I'm trying to setup a store to sell 5 shippable items, shipping costs to be calculated by weight. Payment processing with Paypal (to keep things simple).
Anybody?
p.s. This isn't the first time I've wasted many hours trying to figure out e-commerce. Should I just toss it and go with Ubercart even though its in Alpha?
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I had a totally different
I had a totally different experience from you - I got it to work absolutely out of the box (WorldPay worked fine, very secure). But actually making it visually integrate with the site was difficult. Making logged-in and anonymous users have exactly the same experience was difficult, and adding a mandatory terms & conditions box to a later form was hard as well: we had to record the t&c check for legal reasons, which required a new table, which etc. etc.
What sort of problems are you encountering? Presumably it enables OK: do you get the admin interfaces? (I think the admin page link doesn't drop under settings, but gets stuck at the root of the admin menu). Can you create product nodes? You need to enable a fair few submodules (under ecommerce core, we have everything but Subproduct API; under payment methods we have WorldPay; under Product Types we have donate) and I think you need the token module installed too.
You might find you get a better response on ecommerce's own project subsite: http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce/ .
Good luck!
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J-P Stacey, software gardener, Magnetic Phield
That is the download page,
That is the download page, which doesn't lead to any other forums. Did you mean http://groups.drupal.org/e-commerce? I had asked a question there quite a while back and didn't get any responses, so I figured my luck here was better :)
Down towards the bottom of
Down towards the bottom of the ecommerce project page is a stack of links under "Support" which may be of use. They link to e.g. "View all support requests", and those seem to have a pretty good turnover of support (most recent updates a few hours ago).
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J-P Stacey, software gardener, Magnetic Phield
I've installed e-commerce on
I've installed e-commerce on at least 4 sites which all work fine. Most I had to do was add 2 tables. What can't you do?
Shipping is the main
Shipping is the main sticking point. I haven't been able to figure out how to assign shipping prices to items. I've tried their shipcalc for auspost (Australia) and also flexicharge, but the the prices aren't being applied/no where to apply the prices.
Its definitely shipping
Its definitely shipping where I'm getting stuck. If you have successfully deployed e-commerce with shipping enabled, a couple of questions:
- is it possible to assign fixed shipping prices per SKU? I'm looking at Flexicharge which seems to insist that shipping costs are assigned by weight.
- is it possible to implement different shipping levels (standard, next day, overnight) using Flexicharge?
- is it possible to restrict shipping to only domestic (Australia) deliveries?
- also: is there a 'shipping address same as billing address' option or does the user have to enter the information twice (can't figure if e-commerce has this, Ubercart definitely does)? is the user information, address, etc captured and forwarded to Paypal (can't figure if e-commerce has this, Ubercart definitely does)?
The Auspost shipcalc module errors out, which is why I'm looking at Flexicharge. Ubercart was proving far more useful, but wasn't very friendly capturing Aussie address state information (it got 95% of the way there in 20% of the time I had to spend with e-commerce).
TIA for any e-commerce help!
Update: I'm guessing I'm not being especially thick and the response silence indicates others haven't resolved these issues either ...
Looks like actual
Looks like actual implementations of e-commerce's shipping options are hard to find. My request for help here petered out into nothingness as well ...
I really like the looks of
I really like the looks of ubercart!
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I've been working with
I've been working with ubercart now for several months and really like it. BTW, the alpha status of Ubercart is a bit misleading -- upwards of 15 sites are already using Ubercart including mine at coolcamisa.com -- I commented more here about my experience with Ubercart.
I think you just tipped me
I think you just tipped me the Ubercart way. It still has some issues (doesn't accept Australian states during checkout) and their site is down so I can't check their forums. But it seems way more usable than e-commerce ...