Are there any guides, documentations, tutorials, examples, ... anything about writing custom shipping carriers for Odoo.
I checked their store and most of the bigger ones (DHL, UPS, etc.) are being sold so there is nothing really to use to check "how they did it".
I have a carrier that I need to integrate and they have an API that I can use.
What is the right approach?
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I have a mobile app that allows people to upload information of clothes they have and share it with their friends. I have good traction - increasingly more users every day.
I want to create a new feature that allows users to sell unwanted items on eBay. Ideally, they'll click a button and the item will be available for sale on eBay.
I went through the developer APIs and I'm not even sure where to start. I can't tell whether I should try Retail-Standard Selling (New Sell APIs) or Traditional eBay Selling (Trading APIs) or even something else. Please could someone point me in the right direction?
Since we're speaking of unique items I would suggest to use "old" trading API AddFixedPriceItem
that's made for garage-sale and can do everything with just one call. (1)
while new Sell APIs are meant for stores selling new items in multiple quantities
and requires several calls to achieve the same result (create depo, images, listing, offer...)
BUT
despite what eBay writes (that will continue to support Trading APIs)
we see that every month some Trading APIs are decommissioned or deprecated:
for example last January they removed GetCategorySpecifics
and for next April there will be others..
Clearly you could mix the APIs, using the best combination of both
but since you're at beginning and since the 2 API family are completely different, I suggest you to use new Sell APIs
(1) Just to create the Listing, then several other are required to find proper category, itemsSpecifics, creating the profiles.... and so on..
Kindly please suggest me the best way to single page checkout for Shopify store. As Shopify doesn't support any customization to the checkout page. Our requirement is to create a single page checkout. let me know how it is achievable.
Basic Shopify does not support customization in the checkout page. It is only available to Shopify plus Customer. Please visit here for more information.
You want a single page checkout you may need to create your own checkout process which will again require your store to be a Shopify Plus store. However, there are many Apps which can help you with single page checkout. You may want to use one of them if you don't want to build the whole functionality. You may want to check the below conversation - Link
You should not use Shopify if you want to make your own Checkout. Shopify is a hosted platform and they no longer want to let people play with the cash register themselves.
Of the few Apps that remain that do offer checkout outside of Shopify, you can see the hassles involved for customers. Why not just roll your own? If you can do your own checkout, hook up to an open source system instead where you can do that easier.
This is easy enough to do if you have the skills. Basically create an app that has a proxy page and change the theme's links replacing the paths to the checkout with paths to your proxied checkout.
There are a number of ways to collect payment info if you do this including using the draft_orders api to send the customer back to Shopify for final payment (not applicable for single page checkout but sometimes works well with the business reason that justifies a custom checkout in the first place)
You can also create a sales channel app that works much like the proxied app concept but has some more api capabilities.
However you really need a good business reason for doing this. Single page checkout was fashionable a few years ago but I've had as many customers go away from it as go towards it. Shopify has done quite a lot of work on their checkout and it works well (i.e. is fast and efficient) on all their supported platforms. Creating a custom checkout means your stuck maintaining it and are potentially increasing your liability if you take credit cards but have not received PCI certification.
i am researching the aliexpress api and other 3rd party options.
i can't seem to find any option for buying anything automatically.
I have searched theit API as well as googled for other vendors or options. They mostly only have catalog downloads, price updaters and the likes.
does anyone know of a way to actually buy/order/purchase a product from aliexpress via an api?
thanks
Customers will purchase electronic docs through the cart, and once the purchase is complete, I need to code a solution to customize the docs, and email the output to the customer. I can have Shopify sending all the pertinent information in the order to my email, but need a server or something to "catch" that, decipher the information I need, customize my docs, and then deliver (via email) back to the customer.
Just looking for guidance on where I can learn more about building out this type of solution. Recommended applications, software, etc?
I'm looking into building a web app that allows multiple e-commerce stores to coexist on the same installation and lets allows each individual vendor manage their own products, pricing, sales reports, etc. I know that there have been a number of previous questions on the Stack regarding the best shopping cart software, but this is a bit of an unusual twist and I couldn't find it answered elsewhere.
Obviously, open source is better from a pricing standpoint, but I've got no problem with spending money on a quality product that meets my needs. The ideal package would allow each store to be uniquely skinned, would minimize the amount of time that it takes to get a new store up and running, and would include payment gateway and shipping integration.
I've run across a few things in my scouring of the web, but haven't found "the one" yet--I know that osCommerce sort of supports what I'm trying to do, but I'm looking for something designed with this functionality in mind. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Justin
I am at present looking into the same thing. After looking at all the different cart on the market I have settled on PHP Mall 2. I have had demos of X-Cart Pro, iscripts multicart and a few others.
There were only 2 that were any good at handling payments direct from buyer to seller without any added costs of have a mod done for that. They were PHP Mall 2 and iScripts Multi cart. iScripts Multicart didn't really have alot happening in the backend, and vendor shops were really just an about us page with their products showing.
I settled for PHP Mall 2 becuase each vendor can have their own website as such and can customise it to the way they want it. They can choose from a number of templates for their shop.
The part I really like about it is the payments system, there are a number of payment gateways out of the box and the vendor can choose which ever he/she wants. (because not everyone use paypal right!). Its also a fair bit cheaper than all the others and provides alot more from a site admin and seller admin side of things.
I was tasked with looking into a multi vendor cart for a project that was canceled. Before it got canceled, I felt that the below were strong contenders. This is not a comprehensive list but it's somewhere to start. The requirement for multi vendor was paramount, so the listed have varying amounts of CMS/blogging etc; so they are not necessarily apples to apples.
I did get to try out magento community and using information found here http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/145/ got what I felt was the correct experience for multi store/vendor for my purposes. Mileage may vary depending on requirements. It's a beast though and for some reason comparison doesn't indicate the multi vendor capabilities. My impression was that Magento was definitely for the technically minded, with a very high degree of configurability available. It's a meta system for sure. The average joe business owner wouldn't stand a chance with it. However, it might be a perfect for resellers.
http://www.x-cart.com/mall_solution.html
http://www.php-shop-system.com/products/iq-cart-for-joomla-our-new-cart-component-for-joomla.html
http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/compare
I am also in search of a multi-store solution. Magento Commerce is too expensive. OpenCart now supports multi-shop but only a single user can manage the stores. I would have preferred setting up multiple stores and have different users manage each store.
I've also been undertaking research within this area and discovered the following options;
For joomla = http://www.ijoobi.com, IXXO
For Magento = http://www.unirgy.com, MVDE
There is also an interesting product called MultiCart from iScripts, and the X-Cart Pro from Qualiteam.