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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Generating and securing gift card codes

I'm working for a company that is generating gift card codes which can be used to pay for goods on online stores. I'm wondering what the most secure way of generating these gift card codes are. The length needs to be 16 characters (though that is…
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How to get products from a particular category in magento ecommerce

I'd like to get a list of random products from the same category as the current product for displaying within the product view - so far all I've dug up is Magento products by categories Does anyone know how to do this?
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How to select specific fields with aliases using joinTable or joinField in Magento

I want to pre-filter* data in the invoice grid visible in Magento's admin panel. Here is a question that I asked earlier, and this one is related to the solution presented for that, hence it might act as a good explanation. So, I am modifying the…
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Discount strategy in shopping cart and orders

I am trying to implement a system that can handle multiple discounts applied to my cart/completed orders. I have applied a strategy type pattern to encapsulate the processing of the discounts within the discounts. I have come up with the following:…
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how to change theme of magento e commerce?

how to change theme of magento e commerce ??
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Calling a helper class in Magento

I'm trying to create a custom helper module in Magento but I'm getting the following error when I call it from a page : Warning: include(Mage/SEO/Helper/Data.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in…
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Online payments for a middleman

I'm new to online payments and would like some opinions on my task. Here is the scenario: I have a website where people buy and sell digital photos. A seller has a photo and wants to sell it. They create an ad on the site and upload the photo…
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Merging Orchard CMS with custom MVC ecommerce site

I have a large custom ecommerce engine that is currently using a SQL Server database (stored procedures handling most data tasks), a WCF middle-tier (handling business logic), and an MVC front-end site (that has no knowledge of any database). Our…
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Magento getUrl not working with catalog/category object?

I've been able to instantiate a category object to retrieve its name, but when I use the getUrl method it isn't returning a URL to the category listing page, or anything at all
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Api random call fails - The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

We have an eCommerce site that calls our own API (Web Api sat on a windows 2008 server + IIS) to move order from online to an on premise system. The Api was working fine for months but now we are getting random errors which our logs are reporting as…
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Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce payload too big on checkout

It seems like: ga('send', 'pageview'); Doesn't know how to handle large payload (over 8K), when we're sending a large transaction with more than 100 products, the page impression just tries to send all the items in a single beacon…
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how to buy item with aliexpress api

i am researching the aliexpress api and other 3rd party options. i can't seem to find any option for buying anything automatically. I have searched theit API as well as googled for other vendors or options. They mostly only have catalog downloads,…
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Tracking catalog product impressions - Enhanced Ecommerce Google Analytics

I'm trying to implement product impressions on a ecommerce catalog page using google analytics enhanced ecommerce tracking. Following the specs one should implement it like this: ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y'); ga('require',…
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What production-ready SaaS (recurring billing) solutions are available for Rails?

I am working on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application and I am looking for a billing plugin of some sort that will manage my subscriptions, customers, and recurring billing. There is the RailsKits SaaS kit ($249.00), but I prefer to use open…
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Dealing with two people buying a unique item in an online shop at the same time

I'm creating a simple online shop with PHP integrated with PayPal that sells unique items. What I'm wondering is how other shops deal with multiple people attempting to go through the payment process with the same item. This is my current draft…
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