Being able to sell digital products online with a shopping cart would be of interest for our Executive Committee team to consider. If career professionals choose not to become a member, they could still purchase our digital career management tools online.

Rather than developing a shopping cart system from the ground up, maybe the Wild Apricot development team might consider implementing a customizable shopping cart system. www.kryptronic.com has an excellent product one of my technology consulting clients implemented.  Kryptronic did a great job of customizing my client's shopping cart, which had very intricate requirements.  I can make an introduction to the Kryptronic CEO, if required.

 

 

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Carl E. Reid, CSI
Chief Operations Officer
Empowering Today's Professionals (ETP) Network
"Own Your Career"
www.etpnetwork.com
http://etpnetwork.memberlodge.org

Thanks Carl!

(Though realistically it is probably more work for us to integrate any external system than to build our own, if you consider all the ways this has to 'hook' into Wild Apricot to provide good user experience. )

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

While we wait for the for an online store here, we are currently testing and playing around with www.vendr.com which adds a clean tab to the site using java widget . It's still in beta. Works with current website and adds a red "store" or "shop" tab/button to the website, and the store will simply pop-up over current site without a redirect off current site.

Vendr.com looks fine but for $8 per month e-junkie.com gives you 20 products + downloads + an affiliate program.

See this post  for more details

Great! Thank you Gordon. A bit diffrent approuch, but we will review that options as well.

We are still currently in our free trial period, and just about the only thing holding us back from jumping in feet first is the lack of a shopping cart system. 

 Wild Apricot can do so much for us as a non-profit, but because we have offer programs like day camps to our members, and with various enrollment options (families may have three kids that want to go to several of our camps), we aren't sure how deeply we want to commit due to the frustrations with multiple registrations.

 Please. Please. Please...add a shopping cart system. When that is done, we will have reached our efficiency Mecca here and will certainly update our membership to give you more money!

Another feature we need is the ability to offer different prices to members versus those offered to non-members.

Thanks for commenting. There is no doubt in our mind about the priority of the online store - this is now in analysis and design stage and it's just a matter of planning / prioritizing. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

I'm really happy to hear this is moving forward.  I'm building an online store now using PayPal buttons but it's not pretty.  Having something from you that I can customize and build my own items for sale would be much better, and easier.

The download of digital files will be the majority of our sales but we do offer some printed publications.

 

Thanks for all the hard work to make this happen.

Gene 

Bring It!

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-michellebw

An online store would be right up our alley.

Tantalizing. What estimate can you share for when this will be available? Definitely 2011? Early 2011 by any chance?

Estimated date and a sense of expected features/options would be wonderful for planning.

Our association is interested in many of the same options as people have mentioned here. Some items for sale to members only, others to public, possibly with different pricing for the two audiences. Some items shipped on sale, others to be downloaded.

 

Looking forward - thanks!

Definitely 2011. Not likely to be early 2011 - we are now at early detailed design stage and there is a lot of ground to cover. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

We would really appreciate having an online store as soon as possible. Both for physical items such as CDs and for services (like auditions).

 

Thanks,

London

Opera Company of Brooklyn 

Id love it if there were some other way to pay for tangible products other than that lousy PayPal thing. The presentation of that thing is awful. I realize that for security reasons, you can't add code for other shopping carts, but surely there is a way to do this that isn't difficult at all. Coding check out buttons and adding pictures and descriptions should be fairly easy to do.

Just following up to see if there has been any decision made about the shopping cart feature and/or the ability to register and pay for mulitple items at one time (ie renew membership and pay for an event at once).   Many individual have been asking about this.

 Thanks.

Yes, we have our plans for this year, roughly like this:

Release 4.3 - ability to make payments from profile (which will enable paying for several items in one transaction)

4.4 - Online store + Sales taxes 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Dmitry,

 

 

Will the Online Store in 4.4 be able to sell digital items for download?

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There is never a bad day when you are surfing, in the ocean that is...

Can't say for sure yet until full design is completed. but this is part of what we are targeting. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Is there a timeline for release 4.3 & 4.4?

It's pretty rough but generally 4.3 is fall 2011, 4.4 - early 2012. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

I have just signed up for a group plan for another 12 months

I am also investigating an online store for 2-3 products and am looking at paypal as an option but if WA was still considering this I would hold off - just need a safe 'buy now' button

i am hoping too that your system will include a capacity for people to do direct bank transfers ie manually just like you can now with events ie we create that capacity by including that option in our set up

would it be necessary to upgrade to 4.3 and if so would there be a cost involved?

thanks

Kate

Kate, we always upgrade all our clients automatically and it does not cost anything extra. 

I am not sure what you mean re "capacity for people to do direct bank transfers ie manually just like you can now with events", can you please elaborate?

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

We added a store front that was able to take advantage of our Authorize.net account: 

http://www.friendsofmichigancrew.org/gear

We used something called Fleapay -- http://www.fleapay.com

It was super easy. It took 5 minutes to get the store up and working.  We simply chose the Page Template that was Three Rows & Three Columns and then inserted pictures for the products. It works great for our needs.

Thanks for sharing! Looks quite nice and the integration is quite smooth - after adding a product people can check out or continue shopping on the same page.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot