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[silver_surfer]

Excuse me for the newbie question, I'm just getting into the whole e-commerce, internet shop/cart thing. The most common cart softwares are oscommerce, cubecart, zencart etc.

However what type of cart software is THIS company using, if any at all? Would using this type of an online store be advisable for anyone starting out, and where can one be bought and installed on a hosting server.

Thanks in advance.

[hardwareheroes]

It actually looks custom designed but would be prohibitively expensive I would imagine so kinda rules that out

[LewisSellers]

I think they are using a system provided by http://www.zoovy.com/

I went into the source, and the website is designed around a template called "zoovy.dwt" (which is a dreamweaver template file). When I googled Zoovy template, I got a link to their site....

That could be complete conincidence, but I would say thats probably correct.

Personally, I think cubecart is fantastic, it supports everything and the range of mods available for it is unbelievable.

Kind Regards
Lewis

EDIT: Just to add onto this. Because cubecart is open source, mods can be written relatively easy for it aswell. It requires a bit of PHP knowledge and a bit of cubecart knowledge to a certain extent, but mods can be written to do virtually anything you want.

[Pete]

Well, as you know, I'm a cubecart fan, but I've run into something missing and can find no mod.

First, there should be a field for phone number under the ship to name and address, as this is required by the couriers. Haven't found that mod.

And second, the buyer's phone, which is in the database, does not print on the order notification email. It's there, but doesn't print.

I went in and got that to print, but it throws everything else off a line. But I'm no coder. I am at best a copy and paster.

Still don't want anything else. but would like to find out how to edit the text on the checkout pages. Like change Shipping to Tracking.

I'm learning a bit of everything this week.
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[LewisSellers]

Originally Posted by Pete

Well, as you know, I'm a cubecart fan, but I've run into something missing and can find no mod.

First, there should be a field for phone number under the ship to name and address, as this is required by the couriers. Haven't found that mod.

And second, the buyer's phone, which is in the database, does not print on the order notification email. It's there, but doesn't print.

I went in and got that to print, but it throws everything else off a line. But I'm no coder. I am at best a copy and paster.

Still don't want anything else. but would like to find out how to edit the text on the checkout pages. Like change Shipping to Tracking.

I'm learning a bit of everything this week.
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Hi Pete,

Changing the text on the checkout pages just requires you to edit the language files found in the /languages/en/ folder in the root directory of your cart. I think its global.inc.php thats the main languages file but can't remember off the top of my head.

Regarding adding things into the print outs, you can do this by editing the template files (.tpl files) and modifying what bits of information you want it to pull out of the database.

The other mod is available (atleast I think its what you want). You can purchase a mod (I think its from the cubehelper website), that allows custom registration fields, you simply just need to set one up for this purpose and make it required. If you want to add one to the checkout page, simply edit the template files again and add a little bit of scripting it.

PHP requires you to change more than one file to make something work a lot of the time, but once you get the hang of it, its ok

Cheers
Lewis

[Pete]

Thanks, mate!

I'll play with it tomorrow. Never been to cartmate. Check that out too,

[LewisSellers]

Originally Posted by Pete

Thanks, mate!

I'll play with it tomorrow. Never been to cartmate. Check that out too,

No probs.

If you need any help, just send me a PM and I'll try give you as much advice as I can.

Cheers
Lewis

[silver_surfer]

Thanks for the help guys, much appreciated. So I understand its not a standard cart software. I'm a complete beginner on this and still trying to work out the basics of how the whole thing works. I know the main system behind cart software is databases. Would the system on pickyourshoes be using a very similar type of a system as the standard cart software?

[Pete]

zoovy is an established, long-time package used by larger online sellers. It's a complete deal, not just a template or a cart.

[LewisSellers]

Why do you want to know about the pickyourshoes website?

A lot of the established cart software runs with very powerful backend scripts, It shows statistics, orders, enables you to track customers, basically everything you would need for a brand new business to trade online.

Is there something you like on their website?

Lewis