Open Shop v2.0

[datahell]

I announce you begin of development of Open Shop v2.0

1 new feature and 1 new configuration option already added:

- Added Price Policy for all products. Values: Normal or Call for price.
If set to Call For Price then product price is not visible and the product cannot be added into cart. Instead an Add A Quote form will be displayed to the customer. This can be VERY USEFUL to products such as custom services which as difficult to tell an exact price before contacting the customer (eg paint of a house, seminars, custom web development, etc)

- Added configuration option to hide tags in product's page.

Open Shop v2.0 will have more exiting new features* and a brand new design. Stay tuned!
If you have a feature request you may post it below.

* A feature that I plan to add is this: Option to add dynamic characteristics into a product cart item. Here is a usage example to understand why this can be VERY helpful: You have a product named "Domain registration". The customer can add it into a cart and buy it but you dont know which domain he wants to register. By using a dynamic attribute you can attach a custom characteristic (domain name) to this cart item.

[rentasite]

Great news!

- I like the "Call for price" feature. Will this be a Global setting or it can be applied separately for individual products??
- Also the "Dynamic characteristics" will be very useful.

My requests:

1) As previously discussed  that double click for the 3 buttons (add to cart, add to wishlist, add to compare list) should change and be more user friendly. Because many can not understand that by double clicking will lead them to another page.
2) Improvement in the way the Offers are displayed on eshop's home page.

[datahell]

"Call for price" can be applied to individual products. If it would be for all products then there would be no difference with the "Products catalog" option. So you can sell products A, B, C online and for products D, E display an inquiry form. This new feature is almost ready!

One new feature is been added that solves any display/style/functionality request: Open Shop templates. The "CSS" configuration option (by default "ios" style) changed to "Template". Open Shop templates are not limited in applying custom CSS, they can set custom HTML, javascript and functionality. Although to do such things requires some custom development you have the option to do it without modifying Open Shop source code.

Notes: v1.x "ios" CSS style will be converted to a v2.x template so if you use that option you will not have display changes to your site if you update from v1 to v2. If you use an other custom v1.x CSS style you will have to either use a v2.x template or convert it to a v2.x template. The "agora" template will be commercial.

[web-infox]

Μέθοδοι αποστολής και με Αντικαταβολή
Μέθοδοι πληρωμής και Τράπεζα Πειραιώς
Φίλτρα
Εισαγωγή XML από άλλη πηγή
Ομάδες τροποποιητών (υποχρεωτικό ή όχι)

 

[bledi]

Hello datahell!
Can you add also a calendar plugin, to rent (or buy, or deliver) the products at certain date.
regards

[web-infox]

Μπορει να γινει  quick view

Ευχαριστώ

[perseas]

Θα εξυπηρετούσε πολύ να προστεθεί στις μεθόδους πληρωμής η υπηρεσία ePOS Paycenter της Τράπεζας Πειραιώς [www.piraeusbank.gr/el/epiheiriseis-epaggelmaties/e-shop]

[rentasite]

Two recommendations from my experience of using Open shop, concerning the administration:

- Ability to copy products. As we can copy articles in Elxis CMS.

- This is when it comes to several products and you must add even more! After you create and save the new product, the product's listing brings you to the first page. It would be very useful to lead you to the page where the latest product is displayed.

[datahell]

Added licenses manager (LMS) for downloadable products. Licenses get generated in Open Shop based on multiple complex validation criteria you freely set. When you sell a product a license key is released and assigned to the customer automatically. The key is marked as "sold". Keys can also be marked as "Used" (built mostly for automated remote licensing activation systems). You can also manually change the status of a license key. Each product can have its own license keys. See screenshot on my Twitter

Copied from Open Shop related help:

Generated license keys are alphanumeric (A-Z, a-z, 0-9). You can set rules for validating purposes on generated keys. For example you can set the forth character to always be a letter (4:letter[A-Z]) or an integer greater than 5 (4:int[6-9]). You can also set mathematical sum rules. For example the sum for the 3rd and 7th character to be less than 12 (3+7:sum[0-11]) or the sum of all characters to be greater than 199 (all:sum[200-10000]). Note that letters can also be added in math operations. Their arithmetic value is based on an IOS cryptography algorithm (A=12, B=16, C=19, ..., Z=87). If you put too many, or too hard, rules then there might not be enough valid keys to generate.

The 2nd character should be a number greater than 7  2:int[8-9]
The 2nd character should be number 7 2:int[7]
The 2nd character should be a letter  2:letter[A-Z]
The 2nd character should be letter K  2:letter[K]
All characters should be integers  all:int[0-9]
All characters should be letters  all:letter[A-Z]
The sum of character 2 and 5 should be greater than 5  2+5:sum[6-100]
The sum of character 2 and 5 should be less than 8  2+5:sum[0-7]
The sum of all characters should be greater than 200  all:sum[201-10000]

[rentasite]

WoW !!! 

[chongbing]

Great job datahell !

[datahell]

Updated development report for Open Shop 2.0

- Each product can have an after sales information link.
- Each immaterial product can have additionally a download-able documentation file.
- Each download-able product can have additionally a download-able file.
- Each immaterial/download-able product can have license keys using the Open Shop LMS extension (you can set how many per item, so you can create groups like 3 licenses pack).
- Local/Server/No SSL certificate option for automated payment tasks (like Paypal). Added Mozilla's PEM certificate file for PHP's CURL
- Payment transaction data as well as other information are now saved in order. There are 2 texts, one for the customer and one for the site administrator.
- Open Shop control panel has a new look.
- Elxis displays a full Open Shop menu in administration area under Extensions > Open Shop
- When you manually set an order as paid then can initialize the automated payment tasks without an online payment method (eg send downloadable products links and licenses to the customer) - this is still under development
- Much more changes...

[rentasite]

According to what im reading, this is going to be a great update! Thank you very much Gianni

[rentasite]

Added licenses manager (LMS) for downloadable products. Licenses get generated in Open Shop based on multiple complex validation criteria you freely set.

Could there be a function,  in order the administrator/seller to manually input License codes for sale?

[datahell]

You manually set the generation rules but the keys themselves are generated automatically and saved in a special file. However if you dont want the automatic license keys generation feature you can upload your own license keys files with any keys you want... My recommendation is to use the automatic generated ones because, most probably, they will be better than yours as their generation follows mathematical and cryptography methods.

Note that this feature is already complete.

BTW some newer additions and improvements already implemented and finished:
1. CSV sales reports export replaced by Excel documents (xlsx).
2. Added statistical graphs
3. The administration css became almost images-free due to the usage of font awesome (Open Shop is compatible with Elxis 4.5 or newer)
4. Documentation file (downloadable) can be attached to immaterial products.
5. Information link can be attached to any product.
6. You can manually begin the "mark as paid" process from the admin area. This process mimics an online payment functionality (sends mail to the customer, invoice, download-able goods, etc).