Comments on: eCommerce Considerations

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:07:25 +0000

I have built one Drupal + Ubercart site and I really think it went well and has been having minimal issues. The community support has been very good to say the least. If you look at some of the stores that have been built, I would say it's a very powerful system. A really nice example I found today is Dogfish Brewery

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:57:15 +0000

I think I’d just create a form (probably Wufoo so it’s surely secure) and collect the credit card information there, just being very clear in the description about how you handle things (don’t charge until a spot in the class is secure).

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:20:35 +0000

Here’s kind of an odd question:

Do you know of any e-commerce solutions that have options to NOT process transactions online? Sounds odd right? Well here’s our scenario:

The only thing we “sell” on our website is registration for our Spring/Summer classes and gift certificats, but since the class list is a physical list on a clipboard, the way we’ve always processed the transactions was to securely send the credit card information to our accounting department and each is processed manually (after a phone call to confirm the class isn’t already full).

This is just the best way for us to do it instead of issuing a bunch of refunds after the fact.

Do you know of any solutions to match our model?

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:32:09 +0000

Mike,

I have a question, what is the cost of milksite. You show no cost up front, pricing tier and your product seems to be a little hidden in the areas of being up front.

30-day Trial? Equals sucked in and dumped with out knowing what the actual cost is going to be. More importantly, wouldn’t you want to have the customer know the cost so they can plan for a budget on their eCommerce site?

By: TeMc

TeMc — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:33:09 +0000

Great article !

I use WP E-Commerce for all e-commerce projects I have, whenever possible. I think this WP plugin is not only capable of doing the job in most situations it’s also very easy to use, automaticly uses the WP Theme, ideal when having a blog/website aswell handled by WordPress, multi language, lots of extra things (for example you can install the Dutch language and by Googling you’ll even find paymant modules for iDeal Netherlands Banks etc. ).

Forums and IRC included aswell. And also very easy customizable (for instance, I wanted to re-arrange the checkout page a little and the php-file for that was easy to find and had comments in it).

Also lots of CSS classes and hooks to customize it even further.

PS: +1 for the poll. Maybe a poll with checkboxes so we can choose more then 1 :P

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:21:54 +0000

Aaron, if you have any questions about how Milksites can make ecommerce and design simpler for your clients, check out milksitescom

By: Raven Matt

Raven Matt — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:19:27 +0000

I’ve been working with shopify for the last few sites. I’m enjoying it.

Foxycart seems like a good solution for smaller stores or selling a few items. However, I don’t like that a thumbnail of your item does not appear in your cart.

Whatever’s clever.

By: James

James — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:54:23 +0000

I do love the way things like CMS and hopping carts advertise SEO as a ‘feature’, yet don’t bother to mention that the output can be made visible on the web. Strange when the two are exactly the same thing!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:59:36 +0000

I’d love to answer any questions anyone may have. Much of what you see on CSStricks can be employed in a Milksites theme design as they are fully customizable.

Anyone who’s designed a Milksites theme can say it’s a cutting edge system that takes the template out of template design. :D

877-235-2105

By: Teko

Teko — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:52:24 +0000

Excellent post, thanks!!! I also like the poll idea for the TOP TEN!!