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Thanks for all the replies will definitely be using FoxEE.
Unfortunately all my categories are going to be priced completely differently, so will go over and vote for that add-on/change - as I think most of the future stuff I would be doing would involve lots of different prices for items.

Hi All-

I’m working on a bid for a new project and I have a quick question about FoxEE. The client is an organization which puts on a large festival annually and they would want to have multiple member types (including Public, Vendors, Volunteers and staff). They’ll want to have certain items for sale to the public (like t-shirts, posters, etc), but also specific items for their vendors only (like booth registration and other services). It looks like this sort of differentiation would be possible using EE’s native membership functionalities to separate weblogs and templates from different member groups. Is this true, or am I missing something?

Also, and here’s the big one, they want to eventually sell tickets for the event online as well. This would be up to 70,000 tickets a year. What I’m wondering is is foxEE and FoxyCart are “buff” enough to handle that sort of transaction load? If not, does that push us into the eeCommerce/Magento range for getting something like that set up?

One final thing. With the release date of EE2.0 for December 1st, I’m wondering what your plans on for support in EE2.0?

Thanks for any and all help. FoxEE looks fantastic!

Josh

Hi Josh, thanks for your interest in Foxee. You are correct that EE can handle your membership needs. You can then setup your products to only be available to certain member groups. Foxee will have no problem with your projected load selling tickets. It is all dependent on your server configuration. If you have any other questions you can contact us directly at http://www.hccdevelopment.com/Web-Based-Software/Contact_Us/

You will be able to use FoxEE and EE default membership to sell only certain products to certain member groups. Guest would be able to browse your site and view items that are open to the Public. During the checkout process they will be asked for their email address which will result in querying the EE DB to see if they are a member if they are not then the details used durning checkout will create them as members of whatever member group you choose. If they are a member they will be signed in and most of the fields will pre-populated with data from their profile. Now for other areas of the store (vendors, volunteers, staff) they will need to be logged in before they will be able to view their “area” of the store. You do not have to necessarily create separate weblogs or templates a few conditionals will be all you need. You could use categories to separate the products up into each class (public, vendor…) then with a few conditionals you can display the right content by their member group. If you want you could create a separate template but that is up to you and the client.

Now about FoxyCart handling that many orders. I can not say 100% from personal experience as I have not had a client doing that much business each year but as long as you set up your server and templates correctly (caching, powerful enough server) you should be set, it is basically like any other form of traffic.

To your last question. As I am not part of the HCCDevelopment team I can not speak to their plans for upgrading their software to EE2.0 but from a business model it would be very risky for them not to upgrade to the 2.0 platform eventually. I have trouble justifying upgrading all of my clients (at least right away) as it will take time for developers to create their addons for EE2.0 anyways. I would not worry too much about HCCDevelopment not upgrading FoxEE to EE2.o

Yes we are currently building the 2.0 version of Foxee. And its cool! We still haven’t determined the final roadmap for foxee 110, as Justin said it is going to depend on the other third party developers making their products available.

Mike and Justin-

Thanks both for your answers. I’m really excited that this module exists and am glad that it seems like it will work out for this to work in my project. I have one question about membership. If a person is registered - say in the “Vendor” member group and then purchases something can I keep them in that member group even if I want non-members added a “Customer” group?

Thanks again for your answers.

Hi Josh, why don’t you contact me directly and we can go over your project specs.

Is it possible to be notified by email when someone makes a purchase?

@sagebrown, yes it is.

How? I can’t seem to find it.

Did you look in your FoxyCart account? There is a section in there for emails.

Ok - got that. Thanks.

Now, I’m setting up a store in which there are two different prices. The “msrp” price, and a “dealer” price. What would the best way to do this be? If people are signed in as a dealer, they see both, but when they order it’s at the dealer price. If people aren’t signed in, they just see the msrp price. Is this possible? How?

What about controlling that using member group logic?

For example, dealers are part of the “dealers” member group. Then you use conditionals in your templates that would show the dealer price if the member is logged in and part of the “dealers” member group. All others would see the msrp price (including the dealers) because you wouldn’t have a conditional around that. Basically you are just trying to limit the dealer price to the dealers, so I think this solution would work fine.

Yeah, that makes sense, and is pretty much what I have set up. I have a pricing option for members of the “dealers” group, but how do I show that price? There doesn’t seem to be a tag to show a price for one of the pricing options.

Thanks for all your help!

I think you’ll need to use the add to cart custom tag. Check out the example for that tag. Usually pricing options show up like a dropdown list… small, medium, large…. what you want is to have both show up for some, but not for others. Makes it a bit trickier.

http://www.hccdevelopment.com/docs/foxee/foxee_110/template_tags/add_to_cart_custom/

I’m also assuming that discounts won’t work for you, as it is likely that the discount is applied on a product by product basis and not by dealer group (By dealer group I mean that all dealers would receive a discount of 30%)?