TreasureChest: MODx eCommerce solution.

Hi Scotty,
Treasure Chest is incredible.

Just one question,
here in Serbia PayPal is Science Fiction, so my clients are limited to e-mail orders.
Is there a way to customize TC to send shopping cart items to e-mail address(es) instead of PayPal integration?

With regards,
Ivan

Quote from: imandic at Feb 20, 2008, 06:44 PM

Hi Scotty,
Treasure Chest is incredible.

Just one question,
here in Serbia PayPal is Science Fiction, so my clients are limited to e-mail orders.
Is there a way to customize TC to send shopping cart items to e-mail address(es) instead of PayPal integration?

With regards,
Ivan

It can be done, but you would have to edit the core files to disable PayPal and instead send an email. I think with a moderate comfort level in PHP it could be done, but it does not work that way out of the box.

Yeah, here too. In Netherlands, Germany and some other countries real time bank transfers are taking over all the others completely as preferred payment method: simpler and cheaper, no subscription required. We have one called IDEAL and it is in 2 years about 40% of transfers and growing fast. I tried to find some English info, and stumbled on http://www.globalcollect.com/methods/rtbt.html

One of the things I should bring up as a reminder is that although it might be nice to have support for any number of different payment processors, this project was built from the ground up on the PayPal API. Everything from product management, sales tracking, and payment processing is based on PayPal.

This MODx Snippet and Module combo is targeted to PayPal users. This is an excerpt from the front page of http://treasurechestcart.com

What it is:
It is an integration for PayPal Website Payments Standard which allows you to have a catalog of items at your MODx site... it lets your visitors look around and add/remove items at any time without leaving your MODx site, then when they are ready to check out, they temporarily leave your site to have their payment processed securely at the PayPal website. If you want, your customers will be returned back to your site after their payment is complete.

It is not my intention to exclude a big portion of the planet, but I wrote this for a specific purpose... my wife needed a PayPal store. After I finished her site, I refined the app, tried to make it as universal as possible, and created the TreasureChest cart website so that other MODx users who needed a PayPal shopping solution would be able to see what it is all about, how it works, and hopefully have enough information to determine if it is right for their needs.

I hope this explains where TreasureChest is going and what it is not going to be able to do.

Please feel free to email me directly if you have questions about it as that is the quickest way to get a response from me.

Also, I am "scottydelicious" on Skype.

-sD-
Dr. Scotty Delicious, DFPA.

Hey Scotty,
Is there going to be any further documentation on the treasurechest site? I purchased it for a client but they found it too complicated to use, so I’m now using prestashop for their site.

im getting a 500 internal server error when i go to mysite/install to run tresurechest install
any ideas why ?

I purchased TC yesterday and have already spent a good couple of hours trying to get it to work, so the claim listed on the website about being ready to sell the first product in 5 mins might be overstating things a bit - at least based on my experience so far.

The first problem was how to get the cart info HTML to display on the product page when the "add" link is clicked. The documentation does not mention that you need to insert an HTML element using the class or id specified in the module config. The default is ".treasure_cart" so I added an empty div element: "<div class="treasure_cart"> </div>".

Following this, the cart info is displayed, BUT it only shows when I am also logged in to the manager. I’ve fiddled around with disabling plugins etc., but no luck so far.

I’m using Apache 2.2.x, PHP 5.2.x, MySQL 5, and MODX 0.9.6.1p2.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received!

(I’ve emailed Scotty but thought I’d also post here.)

Thanks,
Anton

I just thought I would take a minute to follow up on what Anton and I have been discussing via email.
The problem ended up being related to a missing semicolon in the AjaxSearch code.

Problem is resolved and I must admit he has a terrifically beautiful design on the store he is working on.

Great work Anton!

-sD-
Dr. Scotty Delicious, DFPA.

I should also add that Dr Delicious has provided first-class service and support for TC. Once up and running, it’s a great little system!

Anton

Ok, I now have a working MODx based treasurechest store here if your interested in taking a look.

Now, How can I make the ’cart icon’ at the top right of that page show the cart in a similar manner to what happens when the ’view cart’ link in TreasureChest is clicked?

Thank you,
Kevin