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[krypto]

Hi people!

I am wondering if it possible for someone to make a working webshop in MODx.  It would involve creating a shopping cart-type system along with payment for paypal and most credit cards.  I would need it in about 4 weeks time, price is negotiable.  It is for a small-sized ceramics company so keep that in mind when considering your fees, I would have no problems making such a solution available to the MODx community as a whole.

Reply either to this post or to my mail, tomislav@krypto.hr

Thanks!

[rthrash]

What about using http://foxycart.com/

[Whitefen]

There is also E-Junkie Cart:
http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/shopping-cart.php

[charliez]

Search for ShopX...

[chinesedream]

Search for ShopX...

I need an e-commerce solution for my site too, but the ShopX and the ModxCart don't seem to be released anytime soon
Lack of shopping cart solution really is a  drawback for Modx.

tgp

[cleveley]

Until Modx has a cart, I would try using http://www.cubecart.com
can be used at no cost if the copyright notices are not modified or removed.
Fully css and modular
SEO with a plugin
Install on your own server (unlike foxy-cart)

Then integrate into modx by:

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/MODx_site_menu_in_external_PHP_app

[ganeshXL]

http://www.zen-cart.com/ is certainly worth a try. And of course there's always http://www.oscommerce.com/ although... a bit bloated if you just want to add a few items. Quite powerful though.

[chinesedream]

I am aware of Cubecart, zen cart and other, but I am not sure it's easy to install them in Modx.

[edge]

We have a number of MODx and Cubecart sites for the same domain/company

Whilst these are integrated from a design and navigation point of view they will not deliver the full integration that you may seek, e,g using the same code snippets, chunks in the Cart.

However - depending on your clients needs it can be OK to use a separate cart. For example if you visit apple, you have a store tab which takes you into the store. if you can mostly keep your products store separate for the documents in Modx, then this may be a viable and low cost solution for you

And if (I am sure fellow MODx'ers will forgive me here) your clients needs are 80 -99% store, many cart solutions offer a level of CMS capability, although products like Cubecart dont come close to the CMS features of MODx. Getting to grips with many Cart solutions is also not do daunting, it just takes time or find a freelancer to help you if its a one-off project.

Oh, and on the subject of a MODx store, with so many alternative products out there, I would personally like to see a product catalogue as a first step. There are a lot of CMS customers who don't need or want to sell but who do which to put their products and related information on line so the ability to have a module where part code, title. description, weight, Pdf link, cost etc could be automated in a form would be very nice

[rthrash]

Ditto and a few TVs makes for a dead simple catalog solution.

[chinesedream]

Ditto and a few TVs makes for a dead simple catalog solution.

I presume it can work with Paypal shopping cart effortlessly right?

tgp

[rthrash]

No reason it couldn't ... that'd work great.

[The Man Can!]

As Ryan mentioned, I'd suggest FoxyCart (though I am biased). We've built it to integrate as closely as possible with MODx, and if you're handy with Ditto and TVs you should be able to have a fully integrated cart set up in an hour or two, no lie. Similar in concept to a PayPal cart solution but much more flexible with (arguably) a much improved checkout process (and you can use PayPal as your gateway if you want to).

It's not perfect but we're adding new features every day. ShopX would be good to look at as well. I'd personally stay away from cart solutions that are CMS's like CubeCart, since (as edge mentioned) you effectively end up with duplicate sites. (And with MODx being as powerful as it is, using another CMS is just painful.)

Install on your own server (unlike foxy-cart)

We just added the ability to have your FoxyCart pages at whatever.yourdomain.com. It's obviously not for everybody, but it's incredibly flexible and has been built from the ground up to integrate with a CMS (like MODx), so it does offer some advantages.

[chinesedream]

As Ryan mentioned, I'd suggest FoxyCart (though I am biased). We've built it to integrate as closely as possible with MODx, and if you're handy with Ditto and TVs you should be able to have a fully functional cart set up in an hour or two, no lie. Similar in concept to a PayPal cart solution but much more flexible with (arguably) a much improved checkout process (and you can use PayPal as your gateway if you want to).

It's not perfect but we're adding new features every day. ShopX would be good to look at as well. I'd personally stay away from cart solutions that are CMS's like CubeCart, since (as edge mentioned) you effectively end up with duplicate sites. (And with MODx being as powerful as it is, using another CMS is just painful.)

Hi, I did look at the foxycart and it looks quite interesting based on the listed features; note that I didn't sign up for a trial.
Not trying to sound like a cheapsteak, I do feel that the $15/m will put many people off, including me. I am a person who understands and appreciates good value and will not hesitate to purchase a software/service when needed, but I must admit I always try to avoid application that asks for monthly fee, and it's very difficult to convince me to pay $15/m for merely 100MB space when my web host offers generous bandwidth and space. Of course if I am a multimillionaire CEO, $15/m is nothing, but foxycart is  geared towards web designers, IMHO, you will have difficulty to convince many designers and their clients to commit to $15 a month.

tgp

[pixelchutes]

IMHO, you will have difficulty to convince many designers and their clients to commit to $15 a month.

While I agree extra costs are undesirable, it is usually justifiable by your client provided they have the monthly sales to cover it.

At the end of the day, $15 a month is not much given the remarkably fast turn-around time FoxyCart can offer (mashed up w/ MODx, of course).

Some clients would be chomping-at-the-bit to pay the fee if it meant a fully functional, secure, scalable, template-able, SEO-friendly, seamless e-Commerce integration/solution in just a matter of hours, especially if the site's template is already complete!

The real fun comes with how you leverage your product data feeds and how creatively you integrate into the shopping experience. It really encourages thinking outside of the box, but does not require it. Regardless, your client (and their sales) will hopefully thank you for the recommendation, and the prompt return on their investment. Sure beats Flash-based shopping carts or managing separate CMS/templates

[flinx]

I've been using MODx since last November and have been amazed at the flexibility it has to offer.  Honestly I'm more or less a newbie in the grand scheme of web development (only been doing it full-time for the last year and 1/2), and after learning MODx for my 1st CMS, I began to get request from customers for a solid Shopping Cart solution.  After getting comfortable w/one CMS, I didn't want to have to relearn a new CMS for my shopping cart choice.  Then the bigger challenge was turning a CMS over to a customer plus a Shopping Cart and having them maintain it all without getting confused...I wanted to be able to keep everything under 1 login area.  When Foxy Cart showed up, I was finally able to find a shopping cart solution that fit like a glove with MODx and didn't force the customer to have to learn 2 different CMS's each time they wanted to add a product.  I am currently switching a customer over that has been using Merchant Miva and he's actually having to pay someone to maintain it b/c it's an 800 pound gorilla that he doesn't have the time or understanding to maintain.  With MODx plus Foxy Cart, they only have to learn one CMS: MODx...which as we all know w/a little documentation is super easy.  Only set up a few TV's w/Ditto, and they're good to go.  The other thing that is so amazing to me about Foxy Cart is that the templating system is unbelievable.  Only create one template, load it into a nifty program the creators of Foxy Cart designed, and it creates and loads automatically a secure page for you.  With the other features they're adding on like dynamic XML feeds, I'm able to create secure pages w/Memberships and many other cool features...all things that even a relative newb like me can figure out.

$15/a month fee?  I guess I think about it this way...w/a normal shopping cart, they're having to pay around $65 a year just for the Secure Certificate.  I know the $15/month adds to up to obviously more, but in the end they're getting a great product that they won't have a problem maintaining.  And as we all know, time is money and my clients don't want to have to spend an excessive amount of time each month maintaing their site.  Point in case: I've got one site that's about to go live any day now using Foxy Cart.  The lady I'm building it for is in her mid-50's and to say she's not very computer savvy is to say the least.  I sat down with her and in a matter of a few minutes (with some documenation I put on paper) was able to show her the basics of adding a product in MODx.  With the TV's for price, product name, weight of product, and a picture (that is resized on the website w/PHP thumb), she only has to enter a few values, her product's picture and she's done.  She loves the site and she can easily maintain it.

If you have any questions and want specifics from someone that's actually using it right now, e-mail me at flinx777 {at} hotmail.com

[chinesedream]

Ok, I obviously don't know enough about shopping cart pricing structure  and have not built too many e-commerce websites

For power seller, $15 really isn't nothing I supposed. I guess the message doesn't get across to me with 'This includes at least 100MB of storage space for downloadable products. '.  I asked myself: why on earth do I want to pay $15 a month for a 100mb that I won't be using because I don't sell downloadable products'. Maybe different license /pricing for people who don't want space and not power seller therefor unwilling to commit to a monthly fee?

tgp

[Dimmy]

I am working on a small shop using ditto and shopx and some custom snippets. (min.1-vision.nl)
works great

Made it this way that you can choose to pay it forward or on rebourse (pay to the deliveryguy) or pay using IDEAL (dutch electronic banking) could be coupled to any multypay company I think.

but some php knolige would be handy to adapt shopx to your needs. I did change the form usage so it uses eform instead of the shopx forms for billing.

[chinesedream]

Hi Dimmy, where can I download the ShopX? I don't see it in the resources page and nor the ShopX thread.

thanks!
tgp

[rthrash]

I asked myself: why on earth do I want to pay $15 a month for a 100mb that I won't be using because I don't sell downloadable products'.

You're not paying for download space really (I'm guessing that's just a bonus), you're paying for the cart in general. From experience, I can tell you that FoxyCart is quite cool and worth more than the $15 per month they're advertising.