Questions tagged [e-commerce]

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet.

Electronic commerce also includes the entire online process of developing, marketing, selling, delivering, servicing and paying for products and services.

Usually, is related with e-payment in-which money transfer is occurred electronically. The majority of systems need made using a .

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What is the difference between Subtotal and BaseSubtotal?

Magento has a rich Sales module with a ton of options, and it's well-documented for high-level things, but I'm stuck when it comes to subtle distinctions. I'm trying to put together some order analytics software, but I haven't been able to figure…
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Stop Magento from emptying the shopping cart before payment confirmation?

This is one of the most vital problems I have found since I started testing Magento for my web store. It's kind of a no-brainer that it's absolutely unnecessary and harmful to sales to empty cart before payment confirmation, which unfortunately,…
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Is OpenID necessarily a good choice for eCommerce?

As a Single Sign-On implementation, I think OpenID is great. Even so, is it necessarily a good choice for eCommerce? I know it can be used, but should it? Are you risking too much in putting all of one's access details in a single basket? …
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What is the best way to store a historical price list in a MySQL table?

Basically, my question is this - I have a list of prices, some of which are historical (i.e. I want to be able to search that product X was $0.99 on March 11, $1.99 on April 1, etc...). What is the best way to store this information? I assumed I…
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Safe way to send mail via PHP to many users

Let me explain what I mean in my title. Let's say, that for example I'm creating a small e-commerce system for one web shop/catalog. There's a possibility for customers to choose, do they wish to receive newsletters or not. If they do, then…
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Open instagram ad link in default mobile browser

We are creating Instagram ad for the product (from ads manager panel) . It contains the link to the webpage , where one of the steps is that you need to upload the picture. Problem here is that ad is opened in some kind of "instagram" browser, not…
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Is it better to store redundant information or join tables when necessary in MySQL?

I have an online shop where users can have little shops with their own products. Each of this products can have questions associated to it and the owner of the shop has the ability to answer those questions. This information is stored in 3 tables a…
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How can I use Stripe to delay charging a customer until a physical item is shipped?

I'm in the process of building an online marketplace which sells shippable goods. The site will be similar to Etsy, which will connect merchants with buyers. I'd like to be able to charge a customer's card ONLY when an item is shipped by a merchant…
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How to parse product titles (unstructured) into structured data?

I am looking to parse unstructured product titles like “Canon D1000 4MP Camera 2X Zoom LCD” into structured data like {brand: canon, model number: d1000, lens: 4MP zoom: 2X, display type: LCD}. So far I have: Removed stopwords and cleaned up…
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Adding new tab in Product Admin page like Features Tab, Attributes Tab etc. in Prestashop Version 1.5.3

I would like to add a new tab in Product Admin page like Features Tab, Attributes Tab etc. in PS Version 1.5.x with a custom module. I am adding this tab to the product edit page so that I can add option to upload product video to the admin. Here is…
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What does eCommerce programming involve?

I'm trying to land my first programming-related job, and I found a website for a company which is accepting resumes for an eCommerce development position. This is the requirements they listed: To be proficient in: HTML…
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"Gateway error: (TESTMODE) The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive.During PlaceOrder Authorised.net in magento"

I am facing error during the placeorder using method authorised.net in magento: "Gateway error: (TESTMODE) The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive.
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eCommerce application design: how to manage shopping carts on a used goods website?

I'm making an eCommerce marketplace for used goods using Ruby on Rails with the PayPal API for completing purchases. So essentially the deal is that people can buy and sell their stuff - like eBay or Half.com. All items are used. Here's my question:…
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How to process payments through cards?

I'm developing a web application, using ASP.net and C# need to provide a functionality through which users can pay through their cards (Credit card, Master card, Visa card, Debit card etc.) how do i process a transaction, means that when user…
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E-commerce from scratch or not

I need to develop a new site with the e-commerce part. I'm here to get some hints from you on which road I should go on. The site will have a static part which include some static pages and the e-commerce part for sell the products. I'm a Django and…
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