We ad a devil of a time getting things to work "well" in PortalStore. It is also a nightmare to modify as it appears to be a reworked ASP application (just my opinion). We currently have it working, but it was not fun and we have applied none of the "upgrades"
as it would be a bigger nightmare to retest and fix what the upgrades break. Rob
SKinning Catalook is quite easy. I did a new DNN skin, modified the style sheet, and then went about modifying the ascx pages to achieve a beautiful, simplistic look that I'm quite chuffed with. In all - took about 2-3 days. If that, considering how many interuptions
I have when I work. The ascx mods are tricky from the perspective that you have to figure out WHICH pages to modify - I eventually added the name of each ascx page so I could just see where to go - and because there are so very many features, it gets quite
tricky when you want to move things around - because even if you see 5 items with a product display, there may be 20 fields that are not being displayed, and you realise why they're displayed the way they are in the first place. There are a few small limitations
- you have to consider carefully which features you'll use when you move them around. I made some modifications to the edit screen displays also to help the user who does the editing, to make that big product page a little less daunting. Mostly just revolved
around making all those buttons at the top a little smaller, and I have quite the "if only" list growing! Will send link when we go live - still have some credit card, shipping etc. issues to sort out.
I think the latest releases of Portal Store have taken it a step further. But after the sell to ByDesignWebSights I havent heard anything and get a little worried. Looking at their hompage tells nothing about the product either. Maybee I take it to rel 3 for
my own purpose but maybee they are working on it now. I think they need do some marketing on the product to survive at least. Or maybee it was a sale of the product to get rid of the problems......
If you have lots of sites PortalStore is a hands-down winner on price, as the licence is per-installation whereas Catalook is per-portal: " A single CATALooK.netStore&Renting and CATALooK.netStore Standard license key may not be used in an ISP / Mall environment,
each site / DNN portal(1 origin address) must have its own unique license key. " - You only see this during the purchasing process (and if you bother to click the licencing button), could make a big difference..
Portal Stores 6.5 As usuallly the script didnt work, files not saved in UTF, have to use ByDesign's Module. Not localized....OK its a beta but but but.......
Hi There - Was just wondering if anyone has written thier own credit card proccessor for catalook. Living down under in New Zealand, we can't use most US CC proccessors. I've written my own for Portal Store, but am looking to switch to Catalook. Any info would
be apprciated. - chris
mmm I know Nina is wokrking on some ausie payment gateways and cc processors for the catalook store. She has done some great things with catlook in functinality and layout. dont know how fas she is yet so I would contact her
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Hi Chris - My developer wrote the one for NAB (NSIPS) National Australia Bank which Susanne put into Catalook which is now part of their install and it works just fine. He's doing Verisign for me now, and we're looking at SecurePay as well and that will cover
Direct1 & a few others, esec is one of them. The reason I've gone with Verisign is that after all my calculations, they weren't that much dearer and felt that having the Verisign logo was important. These are my own products I've invested money in to get done.
They also have automated billing now, as well as the abilty to let my other clients log on and pay online - so I can use for more than just ecommerce. They are different to SecurePay which other banks and some building societies can use because of how they
are written. Some payment gateway companies aren't as up to date as others in the SDK or API information they provide, meaning that the developer has to convert asp to .NET and then to DNN which has also been a challenge. Then working with banks to find out
their charges... OMG - it's amazing what you find when you do the comparisons. There are so many different costs, but in a nutshell, this procedure has taken me many months to do. Firstly to be able to understand the differences, secondly to find the right
developers who know their stuff, and thirdly, getting it implemented into an ecommerce product and testing it. We looked at CamTech but it requires a com object installation, which is ok on my servers, but not suitable for onselling in an ISP arrangement.
I know I keep saying it's coming it's coming, but it really is... I have a January 21 deadline on a project so have had to put my energy in that and in doing so, will be able to roll out some ecomerce that's relevant to Australia - Is NewZealand able to use
Verisign (they use some US based methodology) do you have some alliance with banks like ANZ - if so, my developer might be able to assist you. He says basically he can do any of that stuff because he's into security and has already mastered one of the Australian
gateways, and you're only 3 hours flight from here.. :-) Hope this gives you an insight to the fact that there is something that can be done. You can email me at dotnetnuke@xd.com.au if you want to ask specific questions. Nina Meiers Nina Meiers
Hello, I have developed a Catalog/Shopping cart based upon I started Izaak Kelly's (http://www.izaakkelley.com/) IBuySpy StarterKit Conversion for DotNetNuke 1.0, and converted it to use the DotNetNuke 2.x Data Access Layer. This was a relatively straightforward
process as the DNN 2.x DAL is actually a lot simpler than the old school brute force data access. All told, I have about 80-100 hours of my own time invested in this project, and intend to use it as the basis of a multimedia project I working on. From there,
I some of the ideas from the OZMCart (http://www.onezeromedia.com) IBuySpy Store/Commerce Starter Kit Mod. It provided a great jumping off point for my DotNetNuke IBuySpy Store Module. I also worked on a huge ASP shopping cart while with a large 'web boutique'
company in 1999, which supported multiple sku's per product, multiple shipping options, UPS XML integration, and a DLL I wrote to connect to Authorize.NET. Functionality completed: Site Administration Tasks: 1) Products Admin with Image Upload: This uses a
novel approach which uploads a single image for each each product and scales the image according to the requirements of the User Interface. Category admin similar. 2) Orders Admin: All admin functionality of the OZM cart 3) Customers Admin: Customers are DotNetNuke
users. All instances of Customer ID replaced with User ID. 4) Checkout Process: Minus Shipping and Payment processing, the checkout process is complete: This includes a mechanism to copy the guest user's cart to a valid user id, Shipping & Billing Info, and
Order Preview. User Administration Tasks: 1) Monitor Order Status 2) Billing & Shipping Information and Maintenance that can progress as part of the checkout process and maintenance screens easily accessible through Account Maintenance or the Preview Order
Page. 3) More... Incomplete Tasks: 1) Add payment processor. 2) Add Shipping To Checkout Process If interested, you can download the module from my web site during non-online gaming hours, once you have registered (when someone downloading, it kills my ping).
In order to build it you will need to add both the DNNKart project and the DNNKart.SQLDataProvider projects to your DnnFramework Project. The SQL Script is located in the SQLDataProvider project, replace dbo with your database owner name, and dnn_ with your
provider prefix. One of the keys to a project becoming a great open-source project with a large community is that someone has taken the project to a useable state; in the case of this DNN Cart, I believe it is at that capability. I hope that with the right
mix of talent, this project could one day grow to compete with osCommerce for ease of use, only as a tightly integrated DotNetNuke module.
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