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 !!

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by NickTheGreek

Coupons and Discount Usergroups are not parts of my code. Have added by Michael and as I've wrote in the original thread of microCART, I'm letting them there "just in case".
Actually, I don't agree even with the way that coupons are working. It useless feature as they work.

That's okay. It actually works for what I'm doing, so I'm not complaining.

Any ideas on adding a field for "State" for the user info?

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

That's okay. It actually works for what I'm doing, so I'm not complaining.

Any ideas on adding a field for "State" for the user info?

State is "hidden" in locations. What I mean. As States can have different taxes/shipping you must add them in the Locations table (via Admincp). This way you can set different tax/shipping per state.

An example in case that you're working international:

Locations:
United States (Roor category)
--- Alabama
--- Alaska
....etc
Canada (Root category)
--- Ontario
--- Quebec
....etc

EDITED: Other than this, if you need seperate field, just rename the phrase "ecommerce_fax" from "Fax" to "State" and use that field.

[Bastien]

I have searched all the afternoon for a hack like this one !!!

Thank you for sharing, I try it asap. You save me a lot of time :up:

[sadiq6210]

Why I didn't see this mod before 6 months?! Maybe because of the new nickname
Nice to see you again and welcome back Chris

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

Why I didn't see this mod before 6 months?! Maybe because of the new nickname
Nice to see you again and welcome back Chris

Nice to see you again Sadiq, my old friend How are you?

This mod was not here before 6 months. As you're old client you maybe remember that I gave microCART and microSUPPORT to another coder who finally left coding behind (at all... not just vB).

When I seen that many user where complaining for some small bugs I got it back and post a bug fix. Later on I decided to improve it by adding new features but I was unable to use the old thread I repost it with new name.

As for my old account, admins here refused to give me back my old account so I had to use a new one.

Christos

[chikuru]

How to setup the shipping fee? It doesnt appear in checkout or even in the cart, though i have selected my shipping location..

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by chikuru

How to setup the shipping fee? It doesnt appear in checkout or even in the cart, though i have selected my shipping location..

AdminCP-> eCommerce-> Shipping Zones and Rates.
Then when you add a new location you can set which shipping to use for that location. The same applies for Tax.

[chikuru]

Still doesnt work.. Can you check? I can provide you admin login..

[TheAdminMarket]

PM Login details and the location for which you've set in the order and does not works.

[TheAdminMarket]

** IMPORTANT **
Also check that in General Setting "Enable Shipping" is active. By default is "No" so you must change it to "Yes".