Hi Paul:
Congratulations! Really nice site. Very clean lines and the one page
checkout works! I do like your anonymous checkout. Easy to follow,
concise and does the job.
[FYI - I'm trying to come to grips with this on the MyOFBiz.com site. On
my site - like yours - initially I didn't want anyone have to register
to buy a product. So, if you checkout anonymously an account is
automatically created for you when the order is created. AFTER the
return from a successful PayPal payment, the PayPal email address is
used to create the login id. The login id is the PayPal email address
and I check to make sure that the buyer's PayPal address isn't already
known to the system. If it is, then I don't create another login. The
reason I did this is because I don't want users to have to create yet
another login on my site.]
Here's the problem - and it has nothing to do with OFBiz, but everything
to do with the way I notify users of a successful/paid purchase: Every
once-in-a-while a buyer has a "bad" PayPal email account address or the
myofbiz.com domain is blacklisted on the buyer's side. So, the buyer
doesn't get notification of account creation/activation. I'm now
struggling with the best way to handle this as I don't want to force my
buyers to create/login to an account prior to payment. But I might have
to pretty soon here.You won't have this problem because you don't need
to verify they paid.
Sorry about stealing your thunder....but maybe you have some thoughts
from a design perspective on how to handle this since you did such a
nice job on your site?
BTW, I agree with Mike (I think it was Mike) who said something like: It
is really nice to see OFBiz consultancies using OFBiz. I'm just going to
add - Thanks for doing this.
I'm curious about Solr. I have not heard that thousands of products are
a performance issue if you use OFBiz caching wisely. Have you found that
was the case or did you implement Solr for other reasons?
Finally, where are you getting the books - that you can give them away
for free?
Thanks
Ruth Hoffman
[email protected]
On 4/17/12 6:52 AM, Paul Piper wrote:
Hey Guys,
we just released our demo store:<http://www.syracus.net> www.syracus.net.
We figured that apparel were a little overdone, so we opted for a store that
lets you download audio books… for free! All is based upon Apache OFBiz, of
course, though we did some extraordinary changes to the ecommerce component:
· Implementation of Apache Solr – solr is implemented as a
standalone component and can be plugged into the system with ease
· Complete rewrite of all store pages – cleaned up html& CSS
· Responsive Design – try looking at the store with your mobile
device
· Redesigned Checkout – no registration necessary for
one-time-shoppers
Would love to hear your feedback! If you like the available audio books, let
me know, we will continue to add more in the near future.
Cheers,
Paul
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Geschäftsführer
Web:<http://www.ilscipio.com/> http://www.ilscipio.com
Tel: (+49) 611-94589441
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