Shopping cart integration...

[Tigratrus]

Hey all,

Followed this thread and a couple similar ones here, and thought you all might be interested in some hopeful rumor mongering.

The best solution that's come up repeatedly is The vB Geek's Geekmart right? The only problem is that he's had to halt development on it for quite a while simply because he's got so many other things to work on. I've been following the threads over on his site, and he's dropped some hints recently that he's got someone that may be coming on board with him to pickup GeekMart and get it back on track! Whoo Hoo!

Based on those hints, and some recent positive posting by another member over there that bought a copy sans support, we gave it a shot ourselves.

Oh man... MUCH better than we'd hoped for. If you're ok with Paypal as the only payment processer (others may be added later, it's setup for them just needs the interface written) it's quite good even in it's current beta state. I've played around with it quite a bit the last couple days and it's Sooooo much better for our purposes than anything else we've looked at. We actually have a copy of VPASP, but trying to integrate it into vB is just a total PITA. GeekMart is totally integrated from the start, there's a few quirks to it, but it seems totally workable and quite stable so far. Really nice membership system that handles auto-promotion to specified usergroups, very cool.

Anyway, it's still completely unsupported, and nothing official has been said. Maybe nothing will come of it, but... Maybe it will .

Anyway, thought it might be interesting for some of the posters here. Keep your ears out, Geek will probably let us know something officially one way or the other relatively soon.

James and Susan

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

... or at least at the demo page:
http://www.madebymary.com/developing/vbdigishop.php

You can test it as:
User: demouser
Password: demopass
keeping in mind that only 2CO can be used for demo orders !!

The official release will be on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007.

It's 100% a vBulletin's mod, but for those of you, who love to see threads like shopping lists, or topics as product page, then sorry this is not for you. This is for those who love a real cart with the power of vBulletin.

Cheers
Maria

[jahshaka]

i have also been searching for a 'real' cart to integrate with my board. does anyone have any experience with amember? it really seems like the best solution to integrate vbulletin with a real shopping cart script...

all the really good pro scripts are self contained so i am wondering how seamlessly will it integrate, will it be totally hidden form the users? if so then its really the best solution i guess as i can use oscommerce or x-cart

[Tigratrus]

You might try GeekMart at www.thevbgeek.com, we've been using a beta of it and it's working fine for us. Geek's got some help and Geekmart is back in full development, there's a thread over on his site to submit change requests for the next version after gold. It was pretty easy to install and setup as I recall, and it *is* seemless to the user... Obviously YMMV widely, but it's worth a look.

James and Susan

[tazzarkin]

bump. any integration for Zen-cart yet?

[JimmiOO]

Anyone used DigiShop? thinking about buying that but a few questions can it be turned into a normal cart instead of downloads? Does anyone know how to do it?

[tazzarkin]

I'm using digishop, zen-cart, and several other shopping cart programs.

What would really be great is a zen-cart and vbulletin bridge! I would gladly pay for this if anyone has something out there.

[devilsown]

I ran across someone who could make a bridge but wanted 400 dollars to do so. Little more than i wanted to spend.

[sinisterpain]

We have begun developement on a product system core that will have the option for cart but its in developement at the moment you can go here and post your request for features.

[xXTheOneRavenXx]

I too appreciate your assistance Allan. I know I haven't posted much on the site. I've been more of a browser lately then anything. Been focusing on kids, work, and my new home business. I've been looking all over for a cart that would allow my vb site members to say access an area where my products would be posted with prices. They could add these to their cart. I'd also like to be able to add a tax percentage so they could get somewhat of an accurate quote before shipping. But I haven't been lucky enough yet to come across such a thing.