Hi Philip, I'm in Australia and am involved with the manufacturing industry, but that's an obscure case study. How about a book store?
> I suggest that we have a bit of a brainstorm and see if we can't arrive at > some sort of consensus on that. Agreed. > - Merchandising (cross-sell, up-sell etc.) How would this work? List related products to current one? > - Catalogue navigation (beyond a simple category hierarchy) Would catalogue be the default view of each category? Also multiple level categories so you could browse the "Non-fiction" category or a more specific sub-category such as "Politics". > - Options (Size, colour, accessories and the cost build-up associated with > them) Definitely - something like an options table linked to product with a description and price of each addon. And some Javascript to update the total price dynamically. > - Shipping (carriage calculations, tracking) There's a few settings defined in the info table about shipping. Tracking would require user accounts so they could login to check or receive email updates, wouldn't it? > - Multiple payment options. Definitely credit card and paypal. Others? So you think Paypal integration would be relatively easy. Working off the existing paypal appliance? (http://www.web2py.com/appliances/ default/show/28) I would be more than satisfied if we had the above feature set. Shall we keep the discussion public in case others want to come on board? (These people expressed interest before: Massimo, Yarko, Mr admin, eric cs, Vidul, viniciusban, JohnMc, weheh) Richard On Aug 31, 9:26 pm, Philip Kilner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Richard wrote: > > there was a lot of enthusiasm a month back about developing the > > estore: > >http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/371616dac1... > > I was wondering whether that effort got off the ground. > > I'm interested in that, too. > > > The current description for estore says "Almost complete" - is there a > > list of missing features? > > I'm not sure that there is a list of desired features to define what is > missing from it. I suggest that we have a bit of a brainstorm and see if > we can't arrive at some sort of consensus on that. > > For my own part, I think that the broad areas that could do with > addressing are: - > > - Merchandising (cross-sell, up-sell etc.) > - Catalogue navigation (beyond a simple category hierarchy) > - Options (Size, colour, accessories and the cost build-up associated > with them) > - Shipping (carriage calculations, tracking) > - Multiple payment options. > > Some of this stuff can get quite intricate, but based on experience with > specifying/developing a previous product I think I've got an idea as to > how much of the above can be tackled in a relatively simple way. > > Do you have a merchant (or sector) in mind? Although I have a fair idea > of what I think constitutes a generic offering, my own eStore based work > is a pretty tightly focussed B2B case with very specific requirements - > ideally, we should have at least one real target. > > > I would like to see paypal integration because Google Checkout is only > > available in US and UK. > > Paypal integration should be pretty straightforward. > > Presumably you are not in the US or UK? I'm in the UK, FWIW. > > (BTW, I have your private note, but won't be able to respond properly > until tomorrow) > > -- > > Regards, > > PhilK > > Email: [email protected] > > 'a bell is a cup...until it is struck' --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
