[uShop] Add Physical Items to Store
 

What this hack is for:

If you want to sell actual products in your community store, such as books, videos, coffee mugs... whatever. I suggest adding products that promote your site. You can get all sorts of customized merchandise from Cafe Press .

Before you ask, this is not a shopping cart to sell things with real money. It's to redeem points for tangible products. If you don't like the idea of giving stuff away for posting, this isn't the hack for you.

This hack will:

1) Allow you to add physical items to uShop for shipping to your users
2) The user fills in his/her shipping info
3) An email is sent with that information to the store admin
4) An email "receipt" is sent to the user

What you have to do:

1 minor change to the included action file
Add 3 new templates
Add your new items!

Enjoy!

good work

but y think will be also good a store with no phsical items, like the rpg shop of inferno RPG

Hey Nice hack :)! do u know of away you can make it so that they can download an item thanks ben :)

yeah, because i dont know many websites who would allow people to get free stuff when they get to a certain point

Downloadables would be better.

You can make any of the items downloadable. One of my items is downloadable and I just send them a link. I might make an action that would make this automated and secure, so people couldn't share links.

For me, it's no big deal to give away physical products. My community generates money (and I'm a business), so I just consider it advertising investment. We've had these same discussions when I wrote a version of this hack for Lesane's store here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=48338

If you don't want to give away stuff for points, then this hack isn't for you :)

I got the hack working however I can not get it to send notifications neither to the admin nor to the member. What could I be doing wrong ?

Regards,

NW

Thanks! :) This is exactly what I've been looking for. I will give away free preopening movie-tickets, free-tshirts and other cool stuff with this hack.

This is a great hack for large forums with sponsors for competitions etc.

Will install later on!

Great hack! :)

I too am interested in a version of this hack to allow users to download products in an automated and secure environment. Is there any plans for this in the near future or anything that already does this?

Thanks
Tom

Is there any chance that you can make a money based hack soon?

I'd like to do this for my store. It will be a while, though. I'll be out for surgery and recovery for about 3 months.

You mean like an e-commerce store? I don't have any plans for that as I already have an online store that takes money. I don't see a lot of advantage in integrating a money-based cart into VB. www.x-cart.com is a good PHP-based cart. Check that out. :)

thanks will be installing this, after I upgrade to the latest vb :)

what are you suspose to do in this step?
Add 3 new templates
do you upload them in ftp or what? Yeah it is proabably a stupid question but i am lost hehe. :ermm:

Shane

Go to your style manager to add new templates. It's a drop-down menu....

Thank you =) Sorry I am new to VB but let me tell you your hack was just what I was looking for. Thanks for taking the time to write it ;-)

Shane

*hmmm...sells my site via hack >_< lol... great hack i like when i get around to installing i will click install ^_^

I'm going to be using this. I have users that will be redeeming their points/cash for DVDs at my site. It will work perfectly :D.

....... to make a downloadable secure thing is impossible... because no matter what they can always e-mail it to someone or upload it to a site and share it... but there is an easy way to do it i think... when you're in the regular shop, even when you click on a link it stays as the main link itemshop.php... so why not just make the thing a sale link and the link that allows you to download it checks the users cookies or something to validate if it's the previous user... it may not be easy but the whole point of the addition isn't able to be done... if one person can download it, then they can share it with whoever they want

Hmm. I installed this but the email notification isn't working, so there's no way to tell if anyone purchased the item.

Probably just put a setting wrong, but I'll look into my mistake.

That would be cool.
I want to add ebooks/scripts to which I have rights to distribute and more :)

It's possible that I'll have time over Christmas break to write a downloadable product version. I have a few downloadable products in my uShop that I would like to set up this way also.

I would use it for sure.
I used to have that for my invisionboard 1.3. The way it worked was
that files were renamed on the download, so they can't just provide
someone else with an url to download it off our bandwith.

does this work with ushop .95?

Same question?

Yes it should. It's an easy hack, so give it a try :)

Shipping?

Is there a way to add shipping charges?

I use this hack (slightly customized) to sell @mydomain.com email address to those with lots of coins!

will this work with the latest version of vbulletin?

I was going to ask this too. I want to offer stuff for free using this amazing hack however in the shipping address field would be cool if we have some kind of payment from the user for shipping. I still think its a good deal that these guys pay for shipping and get a free item.

If this feature was added I would add this hack ASAP.

Let me know

Chris

Is this hack going to be ported over to 3.5?

any one come up with the downloadable hack yet wanna put ringtones etc on mine :D

is this available for ebux/estore?

I have installed
now when you try to purchase these items I get this error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: uttpoints_number_format() in /home/yadayada/public_html/ushop/action.item.php on line 10

anyone know what this is, and how to fix?

am I the only one that cannot get this to work???

Will this work on 3.6.7 ?