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Hello,

I used the EE shopping cart pre 2.0 and it was okay, but I remember it worked with pay pal.

I got a few questions.

My client wants a shopping cart but one that doesn’t require payment.
So someone can see items, prices etc
They can order the items but rather than paying they just send their order to my client. The payment will be handled off site.

Also they want reports and client details and all the other wonderful stuff that was there before.

Does EE2 default cart offer this functionality or do I have to always use pay pal… also does it still do reports about the sales.

If not whats a 3rd party software that does all this?

Thanks.
V

Moved to Community Help forum by Moderator

vlad_i,

I can think of a couple of ways that you could handle the requirement of processing orders without taking payment. I would think you could do it with core ExpressionEngine functionality. You could use Custom Status(es) to let the person processing the orders know what was pending and what was closed.

I also wonder if a product like BrilliantRetail would work but just set the payment gateway to something that does not process.

As for reports? Are you talking about the reporting capability in Paypal? I would think you could output the info in a manner that you could process it using something that is built for processing those types of things like Excel or Numbers.

Can you suggest a couple of ways? I am not that familiar with cart. You don’t have to be specific, just a general principle that I will try to apply.

😊

PS yr mailbox is full :X

Hi vlad_i,

It sounds like you’re looking for cart functionality so that items in the cart persist across page loads and even sessions. EE doesn’t specifically do this by itself, but take a look at the 3rd party e-commerce options; as Marcus said you really need one that can accept orders without having to use a payment gateway. I’m not familiar enough with their features in that respect but it’d be worth asking the authors, as it’s an interesting requirement.

In that case are there any good shopping carts that you guys see people raving about?
I’ll post a similar post on their support forums.

:D

Check out CartThrob and/or Brilliant Retail

vlad_i, Brilliant Retail is the only EE2 cart currently available. CartThrob is said to be close to release. Talk to the guys at Brilliant Retail. I am sure they will provide you with the answers you need.

As I mentioned with my previous post you could set it up so that when the item is purchased that it goes through processing and gets assigned to a specific custom status. A person would then log in and view those orders and have to take them through whatever your process is for checking them out and shipping product.

But beyond that I don’t know that I can provide assistance. Again, check with BR.

Hope this helps,

Ok NOW that CartThrob released the latest version, can anyone give me the + or - about the 2 systems Brilliant Retail vs CartThrob!

Thanks!
Vlad

Hi, Vlad. Let’s move this over to the Community Help forum - it’s more on topic there.

ok