Introducing the ExpressionEngine Simple Commerce Module by pMachine. Fully integrate the purchasing power of PayPal into your existing ExpressionEngine site with this easy to use, flexible solution. Customizable email notifications for each product, member group assignment upon purchase, built in encryption, and automated purchase tracking through PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification service give you the power you need to make your own store.
Actually, all i need is a way to select items and send them via email. No need for online transactions (yet!). Does EE allow developers to program their own code?
And does the commerce module, mentioned above, come with the core free version?
Just found out the the Simple Commerce module is not included in the Core version. We plan on obtaining the commercial version soon.
Anyways, after reading through docs. This is what Ive found out:
Simple Commerce Control Panel
Managing Store Items
Managing Store Purchases
Store Email Templates
Instant Payment Notification
PayPal Settings
If not mistaken, this module is like a shopping cart. Can we disable it from connecting to paypal. i.e. if we only need it to manage the items and then send an email out? Is this possible with this module?
I have something at the moment that I wrote into a plugin and you can have a play on this site if you like just don’t submit the final form please
It’s not 100% finished as I would like it to be but it does do everything that the client needed at the time. I am thinking about releasing the plugin at some point and I do usually give everything away for free but as this was for a client site I would probably have to charge or at least ask for donations for it this time.
Anyway if anything else just to say that this kind of thing can be done if you want to store items and then send them via e-mail.
I have something at the moment that I wrote into a plugin and you can have a play on this site if you like just don’t submit the final form please
It’s not 100% finished as I would like it to be but it does do everything that the client needed at the time. I am thinking about releasing the plugin at some point and I do usually give everything away for free but as this was for a client site I would probably have to charge or at least ask for donations for it this time.
Anyway if anything else just to say that this kind of thing can be done if you want to store items and then send them via e-mail.
Best wishes,
Mark
Hi Mark,
That is exactly what I need. How did you go about creating this? Did you turn this to an EE plugin of some sort?
Is there any documentation online that I can have a look at to get started on something similar to this?
Oops sorry I must have somehow become un-subscribed to this thread. Don’t know why that happens sometimes - moderators?
Well as a very quick pointer to (kind of) how I went about this project I first of all found this page on the internet and coded my own version of that in standard PHP without even going near ExpressionEngine or a plugin just to see if I could even get my head around it. Luckily I did and so then went about the process of writing up a plugin.
I don’t think my writing an article on plugin creation would be ideal though as I am still getting the hang of things myself and probably do a few things the long-winded way so that may not help but I just followed the developers documentation really and went from there.
I had already made a few really really simple plugins before this too so had a tiny bit of understanding from previous messings around!! What I also did when I was first learning how to write plugins was to download other plugins (simple ones to start with) and see how they worked as I had the knowledge of what they do on the front-end (templates) all I then needed to do was figure out how they do it on the back-end (plugin-code).
That helped an awful lot in learning how to do things.
As mentioned here the plugin works fully for the site it was used on. There is still one function that I would like to add into it and usually I do release everything I do for free but on this one there were many sleepless nights so I may well ask for donations (or possibly set a price) on this one. Depends on how much interest I get as to which way I go with it though.
As I mentioned there is just one function missing at the moment but not a totally important one depending on what kind of store you are running but this plugin (as simple as it may be to a lot of developers to create) took me a while to get working and is also for a client site.
I have always in the past released everything I have made for all and sundry at no cost to anyone but as this was on a commercial site I feel that I possibly should ask for either donations or charge for it as I am pretty sure that quite a few people could do some great things with it but with that comes a lot of support questions of which I would really only have time to do if there was something in it for me
Anyway I don’t want to get into money here on the forums or take away from this post any more than I already have done except to say that the plugin does work and you can see it in action by going to the site that I have linked to. If anyone is interested then there is always my e-mail or PM that I can be reached on
