Susan has been working on a "real" gateway module (in fact she’s essentially completed it). By "real" I mean one that connects to a payment gateway service and charges the card there (via SSL) and then returns the results to your store (i.e., the customer never leaves your site). So if you’re going to use a service like this then you’re in luck.
Other gateway models will be dealt with soon. The two that we’ve talked about are the "PayPal" type (where you just forward the customer to the processor and they forward them back later) and the offline type (where you process the card yourself manually, or pledges that need follow-up, print or fax order forms, etc.). I will need an offline card solution soon also so I hope to begin work on that within the next week or two
What kind of gateway do you plan to use?
Right now I’m just looking at a simple email to both the customer and shop owner. I realize that having credit card ability would be nice but I don’t expect the shop to sell much in the begining and figure that things can be done by email at first.
:) Basically a proof of concept type of thing.
@ Form on the checkout page
What is this form supposed to do? I thought their would be a send action but ... I don’t seem to see it.
@ Does anybody have this running as a demo or live yet?
Thanks!
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I’m redesigning my site on its new host (PHP 5 and phpsuexec) and am fitting the redesign into my "spare" time, but I hope to have at least a simple ShopX demo up with a simple email processor sometime today, and then start writing a comprehensive, step-by-step tutorial.
Right here:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1575.msg10613.html#msg10613
Unless there’s been yet another update that I don’t know about. Susan has been working furiously on this for the last few weeks. It’s now being tested on a live store, and it looks more solid than most of the eCommerce programs I’ve used before.
More modules and updates to come over the next few weeks...
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I’m afraid it’s a bit complex, and still rather disorganized. But I’ve got the catalog/cart up on my site with a demo and a step-by-step tutorial, as well as guest access to my Manager so you can see the whole process. I need to get busy with the second tutorial, setting up the checkout page.
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ShopX uses the document structure for a catalog. It handles displaying a catalog exactly as you would display news items or blog posts, using Ditto. The summary (introtext) of a document can contain image tags; or you can set Ditto to use the first part of the document content itself for its summaries. You can even use TVs, as it does now for the item’s price.
It would be great to see some AJAX added to a MODx Shop
http://demo.script.aculo.us/shop
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Yes, that’s in the plans, but I need to learn how to do Ajax stuff first!
I didn’t find options for goods, fotos and other, just pure content... Of course it’s much better than nothing (I mean shop module for MODx), but when can we test real e-commerce module like a cubecart, for example? is it possible in near future? Thx a lot. 