Eenuh Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Soooo I have been trying to implement a shopping cart on my site for ages! Since I'm cheap and trying to save money, I only looked into free options. I tried the Paypal buttons first, but they didn't allow me to do what I wanted to about shipping. So after many searches and tests, I've now implemented Mal's e-commerce on my site. I spent all day yesterday staring at it and coding stuff to get it to do what I want it to. I think I have most of it down, except for one thing: I want to be able to set a stock quantity, so people can't buy more than I have in stock. There seems to be no way to do this at all through Mal's forms and coding, so I don't know what to do. I have managed to set a maximum limit (of 5), but when people leave the cart and add the same item again, it simply gets added to the cart, regardless of this maximum limit. Anyone know if there's a way for me to deal with this? If anyone wants to test out my page for me, here is the link: http://www.inespee.com/en/printstest1.html Obviously don't finish the payment of the order, unless you really want some cards. =P But yes, any help and advice on the shopping card would be welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 This person seems to have the same question, and a couple of solutions are suggested. Seems Mals-e doesn't offer any kind of inventory management, even in the paid version. http://forums.netobjects.com/showthread.php?10687-ECommerce-Stock-Quantity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 I've looked at both those options: Either purchase Optioncart (which would defeat my point of getting a free shopping cart) and then figure out how to work that. Or use PHP and mysql or whatever to handle stock through a database. I have no idea how to do this. =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 There are plenty of free shopping carts which offer stock control... Take a look at TomatoCart or OpenCart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 Problem is those are complete stores which I would need to install (which I find difficult to figure out and which I could never get to look like my site). I don't have that many items to sell, so putting up a complete shop like that seems a bit pointless... I need something simple ( like what I have now) so I can understand it with my poor brain. All I'm really missing is stock/quantity control. =( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 http://www.nopdesign.com/freecart/ That's all I could find for something that can be put in a current website, is free and uses quantities. The only problem is there is a lot of manual coding to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 http://www.nopdesign.com/freecart/ That's all I could find for something that can be put in a current website, is free and uses quantities. The only problem is there is a lot of manual coding to do. Thanks for that. Though it is indeed a lot of coding... I have been looking at it all day and I just can't figure it out/get it to work. >.<; Guess for now I'm stuck with what I have... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I wish I had the free time to help. I think your easiest bet would be to strip back opencart and style it to look like your site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted November 19, 2011 Author Share Posted November 19, 2011 Right, so after a whoooooooooole lot of searching and coding and cursing I have finally managed to put a shop online with Opencart, yay! Thanks for the link to it! Also thanks to Sprout for helping me to find the right ways to fix my problems and all that, of which there were many! Doing stuff like this is such a difficult task for someone without any coding knowledge (like meeee!). So yes, this is solved now. =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Your shop is looking very good @Eenuh! Where did you get your template from? And do you find the administration panel for OpenCart far more complicated than it needs to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted November 20, 2011 Author Share Posted November 20, 2011 Your shop is looking very good @Eenuh! Where did you get your template from? And do you find the administration panel for OpenCart far more complicated than it needs to be? I simply used the default template and then altered it to look like it does now. Which is what took me ages to figure out. =P I find the administration panel quite confusing yeah. It's not always very logical where certain things are. Hope I can get used to it quickly though! =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I simply used the default template and then altered it to look like it does now. Which is what took me ages to figure out. =P I find the administration panel quite confusing yeah. It's not always very logical where certain things are. Hope I can get used to it quickly though! =) Yeah, making items featured is something that should be done through the product page, not a separate page. It's a little bit clunky and not very easy to navigate. I'm actually considering making my own admin panel for a client as she needs it to be as simple as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Although OpenCart's admin panel is much better than others, such as oscommerce. Magenta is one of the better shop back-ends but is horribly slow if you haven't got a good dedicated server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Haha yes, we've just come back to a client with a quote, they want some super-awesome 99.9% uptime in any month guaranteed server, rackspace have quoted £7,000-12,000 per month and the same again for set up. Minimum spec 24GB of RAM, and it probably still runs Magento slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 One of the best e-commerce solutions I've used/seen recently is BigCommerce (the hosted solution of Interspire Shopping Cart). A client requested that we set this up for them and although obviously they need to pay monthly for the license it is a fantastic system. It's incredibly easy to use, very easy to change the template of the sites and the admin panel is a dream to use. Everything is so simple. The Interspire version which is one-off is extremely expensive and unless you get the most expensive package then you miss out on a few key features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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