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The product description includes a name, the manufacturer's brand name, availability, price, a product photo, specifications and features. The shop owner has to provide the merchandise. Product grouping is possible according to specific criteria, however this feature currently appeals to technical users, since an interface to automate grouping is yet to be available. This is PHP. In case you would like to contribute, please contact info at sakura.gr
Features planned- write a php form to configure a shop
- admin
- inventory management
- insert/remove/update/hide product info
- auto insert product if xml data provided by vendor
- alarm on reduced stock quantity
- statistics
- seo
- html catalog
- URI (sql2xml done)
- sitemap in xml
- user-defined currency (default euro)
- more skins, multi-store mall
- modify tag size upon the popularity (frequency of visit) of a tag
- the minimum period of storing personal data is 90 days from the last order
- e-request for extending the minimum period has an upper limit
- rewards for non-members
- info on front page about special offers
- discount and gift policies upon purchased item quantity
- for health products/services (medical/pharmaceutical/hygiene)
- if pcode/scode has low avail, provide link to alternative site
- login (membership) accounts
- to setup if extension of the minimum period is a customer's request
- to delete if extended period expires
- rewards for members
- info about special offers upon login
- special offers
- discount and gift policies
- upon purchased item quantity
- upon purchase frequency
- upon purchased item value (point collection)
- upon total purchase value
- if pcode/scode has low avail, provide link to alt. site, opened in new tab
- business: ensure reliability of affiliated sites
- increase the capacity of the shopping cart to cover retail stores
- display products in index, man and prod: random, latest, most popular
- if discontinued, set visible = 0
- product rating order
- number of features
- quality of material/parts
- quality/value
- customer comments (thumbs up, neutral/just-does-the-job, thumbs down)
- in a mall, if there is more than 1 shop to sell the same product
- search results should take this into account regarding result size and prices
- in order
- define minimum total value
- display post address in separate fields
- validation of phone numbers
- simple validation of names/addresses
- sequence of vowels/consonants greater than 3 is not allowed
- personal data
- info to customer about the minimum period of storing personal data
- option for extending (for reordering) the minimum period up to a max value
- along with a username and password to create an account
- connect order, pricing and tax data to accounting
- copy prod_order_* records to accounting
- to satisfy the privacy policy
- perform regular search and update prod_order* tables
- to set personal data equal to null after the min period expires
- exceptions to privacy policy and upon customer demand
- expressed by phone or indicated in order
- keep customer order history to enforce reordering
- in buy
- inform buyer about prod return policy
- connect availability with automated inventory
- if stock == 0 make availability dependent
- on the vendor partner
- on a weighted quality/price factor to reduce ordering requests for products
- through communication and to increase vendor reliability
- payments
- paypal
- google checkout(?)
- credit card processing
- hsbc api guide can be requested by email
- http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/business/cards-payments/secure-epayments
- hsbc api download
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/hsbc-xmlapi/
- if deployed in own server provide a cron job to alarm for unprocessed orders
- language support
- blog for customer comments and reviews
- a reminder in prod_page or search_result or buy_result to visit a link to a separate webpage/blog with the following features:
- news/newsletter/press releases
- a link to prod_page for each pcode (sql2xml may be used)
- reuse of the sMAll search facility for retrieving comments on pcodes
- post at the front page: (tag cloud or reuse the index.php code)
- links to the comment lists with the latest comments about pcodes
- links to the longest comment lists of non-discontinued pcodes
- links to the comment lists of the most popular pcodes and scodes
- choose, say, the first 3 lists of each category, display a list once
- security
- acl
- captcha (maybe no good)
- shipping info links (calculation, shipment booking/tracking)
- business: shipping info depends on transportation partner