Major Additions - eCommerce for vB4.2.2+

Since 2006 I was serving community members with my Free Mods
But as this site will starts operating by the company,
I'm no willing to support them

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eCommerce
The complete eCommerce solution for vBulletin 4.2.2+
Supports Downloadable Products, Physical Products, Subscriptions, Services
Fully compatible with EU directive for collecting EU VAT from EU Citizens

I'm offering my hard work for free, without even a single copyright line in footer, expecting that some of you will appreciate the time that I spent for coding it and they will donate something.

Version 2.1.2 is the Commercial version which among other great features it has:

• No Copyright link
• Supports Donations
• Site Reviews
• Contact Us per product
• .......and many more features that really I don't remember them.

eCommerce is a fully featured Shopping Cart for vBulletin 4.x, with support for Downloadable & Pysical Products, Subscriptions and Services, without missing any feature even from commercial scripts. Installation is very easy, you just need sometime for the initial configuration. Last but not least eCommerce is currently the only cart available for vB4 which supports EU VAT to fullfill with EU directive for online sales (valid since Jan 1st, 2015). Going one step ahead it auto validates Business EU VAT id to exclude them of paying VAT.

*** IMPORTANT NOTICE ***

Since version 1.8.4 there is also a PRO version available at my site. Current Commercial version: 2.1.1


DEMO: http://www.teriakis.com/vb423/cart.php
Demo Accounts:
demouser1 / demopass1
demouser2 / demopass2
demouser3 / demopass3
Please note that Taxes and Shipping are not enabled in the demo. You can order the demo product with 0 price to be able to check the Client area.

*** ATTENTION ***

1. Report any Bug only on the link above. Reporting Bugs here will be ignored. This thread should be ONLY for questions. Thank you.
2. eCommerce is an update of microCART, with fixed all bugs that I found, many design issues corrected, and some new features added (the most important is the support for EU VAT). I decided to release a new product with different name as microCART had 2 versions (Lite and Pro) and I wanted to avoid system mess. Please note that I've the rights to release this addon. Actually the original code was mine.

1.- Highlights

• Supports Downloadable products
• Supports Physical products too!!
• Supports Subscriptions (Even Reccuring)
• Supports Services
• Ability to upgrade usergroup per product
• Unlimited depth levels of categories
• Unlimited Products
• Supports Renewals
• Ability to Add Orders manually
• Accept payments with PayPal, 2CO & ccBill (Credits for ccBill to kastak)
• Supports AddOns
• Support Product Option to Increase/Decrease the price
• Unlimited Screenshoots per product
• Unlimited Files per product, so the customers can download previous versions
• Unlimited Agreements
• Customers (and only those who have bought that product) can rate and review it.
• Admin can turn On/Off the Reviews per product
• Uses HTML Editor.
• Unlimited Tax levels.
• Shipping Zones with unlimited shipping choices per zone.
• Supports Delivery locations (unlimited depth, eg Country, State, Area with different setup for Tax and Shipping per category.
• Collect Customer details at Checkout.
• Auto Tax calculation.
• Auto Shipping calculation.
• Supports PDF Invoice creation.
• Since version 1.5.0 supports Donations with many featured
• New in ver.1.6.0: Donation Form Generator for auto include in Forum sidebar or get the code and add it to any HTML page even in different website.
  

2.- Installation

• Download and unzip eCommerce.zip file
• Upload all the files in your site keeping the same structure. eg cart.php must be on the same level as your forum.php
• CMOD 777 the directories:
  • ecommerce/photos
  • ecommerce/photos/categories
  • ecommerce/photos/medium
  • ecommerce/photos/thumbs
  • ecommerce/photos/tmp
  • ecommerce/pdf
  • ecommerce/pdf/fonts
  • ecommerce/pdf/images
• Login to your admincp and import product-microcart.xml

3.- Configuration

• First of all you need to setup eCommerce General Options. The most important option is to set the path to the directory where you'll store the files. For security reasons you must create a directory over the public area. Then write the full path in the options. Don't forget the trailing slash at the end. Example:
  • /home/username/downloads/
• Setup Usergroup permissions. Available options are:
  • Can access the store
  • Can order
  • Can Moderate (for furthure use)
• Setup Categories and Subcategories for your store.
• Setup your Agreements (at least one)
• Setup Taxes. Please note that since Jan 1st, 2015, you must collect EU VAT from your EU Clients even if your store is locating outside EU. If you follow this directive or not is not my problem.
• Setup Locations and assign them Tax and Shipping (but offcourse you can let them to None).
• Start adding products but from AddOns and Services. It will helps you to save time, as when at a later time you add a main product, you can choose the addons.

4.- Product Options (Configurations)

eCommerce supports configurable options. Not just simple text choices, but options that can increase/decrease the total price. That's why you need to pay extra attention on entering these options to avoid pricing mess.

First of all, you can find these options as "Extra Options" on the droplist on the right of each product (AdminCP). By choosing it you'll get a list of all available configurable options for the specific product. You can Edit and Delete it, or you can change the display order. Click "New Extra Option" to add one.

There is no need for explanation of title. Write there anything that you want. Examples of configuration options are: Color, Size, Ram, Hard disk etc. So let's write Size. In the box below you must add all the available options keeping the format:
Amount|Name

Examples:

• 0|Normal : This option dosen't changes the product's price and it will appears as: Normal
• 15.30|Large : This option increases the price by 15.30 and it will appears as: Large (+$15.30) ... The currency symbol is the one that you've setup. DON'T NEED TO ENTER CURRENCY SYMBOL HERE
• -7.50|Mini : This option decreases the price by 7.50 and it will appears as: Mini (-$7.50). ONCE MORE: DONT ADD CURRENCY SYMBOL.

5.- Product Terminology

• Price: Is the normal price that you're selling a product (eg 49.95)
• Discount: Is the amount that you're giving as discount. eg if you place 4.95 here the price will appear as $49.95 $45.00
• AddOns. Are products that someone can order in the same form (eg Installation, Brand Free etc).

6.- Understanding Shipping Zones

To understand Shipping fields (Base weight, Base fare, Extra weight, Extra fare), you must know how the companies (at least the most of them) are working. They're saying: Till 3 kilos the rate is $15. More than 3 kilos you must add $3 per 500gr (1/2 kilos). In this example you must setup:

1. Base weight 3000 (in grammars) or 3 (in kilos)
2. Base fare 15.00
3. Extra weight 500 (in grammars) or 0.5 (in kilos)
4. Extra fare 3.00
5. Please note to use the same as the definied in the general option weight unit. Setting in options kgr and here grammars is the best way to mess your shop.

7.- SEO Friendly URLs

eCommerce supports htaccess type SEO friendly URLs. The types are:

• store/1/my-category/ For Categories
• product/1/my-product/ For Products

If you want to enable them:

1. Upload .htaccess file to your forum directory
2. If you already have a .htaccess file in your installation add the 2 lines belon on it.
3. Enable SEO URLs in admincp-> eCommerce-> General Options

RewriteRule ^store/([^/]*)/ ./cart.php?do=main&catid=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^product/([^/]*)/ ./cart.php?do=viewproduct&productid=$1 [L,NC]

*** IMPORTANT ***

• You can change the words store and product with your own but in this case you must change the words in the product options.
• If you've the default .htaccess file that comes with vBulletin you need to add these 2 lines at the top, just after the line: RewriteEngine on

8.- Friedly notes

• Please let my copyright link in place. Thank you.

I wish you a huge amount of sales !!

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by HM666

Awesome! How do I get it lol? Let me know when you update the zip or attach it somewhere.

I believe that in 6-8 hours from now I'll be able to release ver. 1.5.0.

[TheAdminMarket]

In version 1.5.0 I've also improved the Payment Partners sidebar clock:

1. Added ccBill and Offline payments as they were missing.
2. Chanfed .gif images to .png as this format is more popular and easy to replace.
3. Changed the templates with the new icons.

See the attached screenshot.

[concepts]

Originally Posted by NickTheGreek

In version 1.5.0 I've also improved the Payment Partners sidebar clock:

1. Added ccBill and Offline payments as they were missing.
2. Chanfed .gif images to .png as this format is more popular and easy to replace.
3. Changed the templates with the new icons.

See the attached screenshot.

Nice! Can't wait! Does this version include the donations add-on you created?

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by concepts

Nice! Can't wait! Does this version include the donations add-on you created?

Yes.

[TheAdminMarket]

Hello all,

I'm happy to release eCommerce ver.1.5.0 which supports Donations. It's not a simple donations box, but a fully working addon implented to work smoothly with eCommerce sharing the eCommerce settings.

I'm not good on listing features as I'm not writting down them when I'm adding them. But the most important are:

• Can be turn On/Off as not all sellers want to accept Donations especially if all their products are commercial.
• You can build a donation goal list just by checking which of your products you want to appear there. eg if you've commercial and free products you can set only your free products to accept donations.
• You can set donations amounts or leave the setting empty. In thise case an input box will appears on the form and the user can sets his desired amount.
• Donations (if enabled) are appearing at Postbit
• Admin can Adds/Edit/Delet Donations
• Tomorrow I'll release a new version which will allows you to auto generate donation form for:
  • Forum Sidebar
  • vb CMS (if enabled)
  • Any PHP/HTML page

In addition to Donations I've added some features that have been requested by users:

• Welcome message appearing in the main page of your shop
• ccBill and Offline payments icons added in Payment Gateways block in sidebar. In addition I changed all gif images with png as they're more popular. This is for those who want to change images
• Added one more field in customer table "Vat Office". This is a need for EU customers along with their VAT id.

Maybe I added more, but not really remember them now

To upgrade:

1. Download the latest 1.5.0 version
2. Upload ALL files from upload directory. Sorry but more than 20 files have been modified plus many others have added (including images), so it should be a waste of time to try uploading one by one 30 files. If you want to save some time don't upload the folder "editor" inside ecommerce folder.
3. Inport product-ecommerce.xml and don't forget to check "Overwrite".

Finally, spent some seconts to rate eCommerce. Any rating... but rate. It's just seconds.

Thank you
Christos

[concepts]

Just updated, the only thing is I do not have the "Donate for" dropdown, nor the text above it... is there something I am missing? I only see the "Your name, leave a message, and amount.

Edit** I may have done something wrong in the uploads... trying again...

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by concepts

Just updated, the only thing is I do not have the "Donate for" dropdown, nor the text above it... is there something I am missing? I only see the "Your name, leave a message, and amount.

Edit** I may have done something wrong in the uploads... trying again...

You must check the settings. By default "Donate for" is set to No.

[concepts]

Whenever I attempt to delete donations.. I receive the following error

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.2:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE user SET ecommerce_donations=ecommerce_donations-1, ecommerce_donationsamount=ecommerce_donationsamount-100.00 WHERE userid=1;

MySQL Error   : BIGINT UNSIGNED value is out of range in '(`ruofficialboard`.`user`.`ecommerce_donations` - 1)'
Error Number  : 1690
Request Date  : Thursday, January 15th 2015 @ 08:47:37 PM
Error Date    : Thursday, January 15th 2015 @ 08:47:37 PM
Script        : http://www.ruofficial.com/admincp/ecommerce_admin.php?do=donations&action=delete&id=2
Referrer      : http://www.ruofficial.com/admincp/ecommerce_admin.php?do=donations
IP Address    : 216.205.224.10
Username      : SBOfficial
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.5.36-cll-lve

**Edit** I am at work using "net2ftp" as I cannot access my programs here. So maybe that is the case as it's not as functional uploading a large amount of files, I guess I will re install this 'officially' when home, either way, this ROCKS!

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by concepts

**Edit** I am at work using "net2ftp" as I cannot access my programs here. So maybe that is the case as it's not as functional uploading a large amount of files, I guess I will re install this 'officially' when home, either way, this ROCKS!

Ok. It's 23:00pm here and I was working almost 16 hours today so I need some sleep. I'll be again online in 8 hours.

[HM666]

Upgraded the mod, but the welcome box does not work. Am I missing something? I put the text in the box and it does not show. http://lenmkaiser.com/vb/vb4/cart.php

On the invoices when you redo that part I wanted to also ask for the ability to add fields myself to it. Like for instance you have an Tax & Shipping Information area I would like a Client Information area as well where I could add my own fields or have these fields plus the ability to add extra fields if needed in the future...

Account Number
Email Address
Web Site URL
Web Site Name
Client Name
Date

Also if you select a product from the drop down list in the invoice page it does not automatically add the amount in the price field of the product nor does it add the price after you put a quantity in. Is it possible to get it to automatically add that price and then if the quantity is more than 1 it adds that price together reflecting the total amount in the "Item Price" box. For instance if my product is $5.00 and I put the quantity at 3 it should automatically add it together and put $15.00 in the Item Price field and then automatically put the total. If that is too much coding or impossible to do that is fine I understand.

Also, yeah I know I'm full of ideas right now lol, but is it possible to add a simple support ticket system to the e-commerce mod where they could submit a ticket based on an item they purchased form the store or based on custom work from an invoice or if they are an ongoing client they could submit a support ticket if there was a problem with their web site?