Shopping Cart Software Clinic

This is a follow up to an eralier blog on Shipwire Order Status Tracking. 
From time to time there will be need to synchronize inventory on shipwire system with the inventory on your web site. shipwire real-time inventory integration script accomplish this objective. The script can be set up as a cron/schedule job or it can be run at any time on as needed basis.

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Call for Price Control

This modification is for displaying customer friendly sales message for products in selected category.  Messages like “Call (123) 456-7890 for Price”, “Negotiable Pricing”, etc. can be entered into an input text box.

This Modification is integrated into the edit category page (in admin) where you can  turn Call for Price feature on or off with the aid of two radio buttons. When Call for Price is on for a product category, an input text box is provided for entering texts to be displayed on the store front.

There are instances where product listing for a category needs to be different from product listing of another category. This feature can be

category product listing control

 enabled by customizing the category edit page. The customization includes two radio buttons and some changes to the categories_description table.

For many e-commerce store owners using CRE Loaded SEO URL module, the challenge has been how to effectively utilize CRE Loaded SEO URL module with product search engine and xml sitemap feeds like Google Product Search and Google XML Sitemap feeds . I have been able to get CRE Loaded SEO URL module to work with both (Google Product Search and Google XML Sitemap feeds); the same method can be used to generate feeds for Yahoo, MSN, Edgeio(Google), Mysimon and other product search engine and xml sitemaps.

By default shipping rate quote are displayed from highest to lowest. In case you find it useful fo your potential customer to see the lowest shipping rate first, it is necessary to reverse the shipping rate qoute order.

To implement this process for ups shipping module, open your ups shipping module located in /include/module/shipping

Look for $upsQuote = $this->_upsGetQuote(); right below it add $upsQuote = array_reverse($upsQuote);

After the change you should have:

$upsQuote = $this->_upsGetQuote();

$upsQuote = array_reverse($upsQuote);

For tutorial on how to use Easy Populate Wizard, read Easy Populate Wizard Tutorial

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Among other things, if you are getting this error, make sure to add “user” to your “database” through your cpanel. It is very easy to forget this steps, espeially if you are going through this configuration for the first time.

Select your choice of user and database then click the Add button to process your selections.

Next you will see the privilege selection screen. Selection your options or select ALL.

For an average e-commerce site, managing product quantity prices for different customer groups can be a daunting task. If you look at it closely, for 10 different prices and three different customer groups, that translate to 30 different values to update. Now multiply that by 200 different products, that is 6000 different values to update.  Even with the aid of easy populate, it does not in any way reduce the volume of work that needs to be done.

In the spirit of continuous improvement, there is a solution that eliminates this problem. What the solution does is provide the capability to set the base price and end price for each product. By using a linear relationship, the individual prices for each price points can be calculated on the fly there by eliminating manual intervention.

Another advantage of this method is the ability to use it with easy populate effectively. There is no need to replicate rows to accommodate the different customer groups.