I have found the most daunting about ofbiz, is the hosting and
maintainence, like backup.
Most hosting for java applications, like ofbiz is about $400.00/month.
that is hard to compete with stores like yahoo for $45-100 month.
When I express to an business owner they can use their DSL, and the
chores involved, they usually respond in the negative.
However if you want to have this integrated. create a Jira for new
feature and put you links in there. if enough people vote for it, or
someone else get interested that will be the place to discuss it and
have some progress.
Rohit Sureka sent the following on 6/29/2006 7:57 PM:
yes BJ, google checkout will be just another payment option, if added to ofbiz.
But i think it can be a graet value addition. Many business owners, including
me, do not really like the idea of storing and processing the credit card
myself, i rather prefer to use paypal or like. Its not just to save on costs
but processing cards directly can be quite daunting for a relatively new
business given the techincal and legal issues. Therefore having more options
can make ofbiz more attractive to new and growing businesses.
Rohit
BJ Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my understanding of the goggle checkout is they provide a shopping cart
and money transfers, like say paypal.
So if someone already has a website, probably the host does not support
java, so ofbiz could run.
If someone has a host where ofbiz can run then it has its own Website,
built in.
Therefore all the goggle would be is another gateway option, along with
all the others that ofbiz has already.
also the Java code they use has to be ver 1.5 compatible, and ofbiz is
not there quite yet, even thought some have got to run on 1.5.
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/samplecode.html
I work with Yahoo stores that offer paypal as an alternative to straight
CC processing. Not that many customers like to use PayPal.
However you can work the war file you can integrate it into ofbiz.
Just look at the other payment processors for examples.
Rohit Sureka sent the following on 6/29/2006 11:05 AM:
hi,
just a thought, if ofbiz can be made to work with the new google checkout, it
can perhaps spurr greater adoption of ofbiz. Just a handful of e-commerce
providers support of google checkout, thus ofbiz can still have a first movers
advantage if it was made to support google checkout. maybe google will list
list ofbiz on its support e-commerce providers page then. More information on
google checkout can be found at the following links:
http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer=38688&ctx=sibling
http://checkout.google.com
http://checkout.google.com/seller/developers.html.
rohit
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