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CIvicRM Shopping Cart for Products
February 18, 2013, 07:22:06 am
Hi there. I am doing a site for a non-profit Taoist Church. We would like to use CivicRM and we have retreats, events, as well as books for sale. I have found a way to configure events and payment gateways, no problem. However, what about products? Is there a way to use CivicRM to sell these? Is there a shopping cart that the user can view their items in?

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Re: CIvicRM Shopping Cart for Products
February 18, 2013, 08:15:50 am
There is not a off the shelf solution for products in CiviCRM, nor is there a shopping cart. What CMS are you using? There are shopping carts and webshop products for Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. And you can use the API to integrate customers/consituents? Or if you are using Drupal, the Drupal Webform CiviCRM integration module...Hope this helps!
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Re: CIvicRM Shopping Cart for Products
February 18, 2013, 08:49:37 am
Like Eric said, there is no native shopping cart in Drupal and Ubercart is a good choice if you use Drupal.

That said, you can sort of "fake it" with premiums within CiviCRM.
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Re: CIvicRM Shopping Cart for Products
February 18, 2013, 12:19:40 pm
Hey guys, I'm actually using Wordpress. I was thinking about using WooCommerce for products, and CivicRM just for retreats. it would be nice to be able to integrate the two, however, I'm not attached to that.

Integrating customers would be awesome. What we really need a is a login that will allow them to view past orders, particularly retreats, and even update options if they want. It would nice, also, for this to show products they have purchased. I know basic PHP but I'm not sure if my skills are sufficient to use the API. Any thoughts?

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Re: CIvicRM Shopping Cart for Products
February 18, 2013, 12:21:36 pm
I don't know how WooCommerce works, but you would need PHP skills to use the API if you wanted to integrate the list of orders with CiviCRM payments for retreats. I don't it's terribly difficult however...
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Re: CIvicRM Shopping Cart for Products
February 18, 2013, 11:48:30 pm
As points out you will need PHP to use the API. If you know a little it might well be doable, it is not that difficult. Guidelines can be found here:
http://book.civicrm.org/developer
in the API section.
There is a specific forum section for API and hooks where you can get assistance, or you check out the IRC channel for the API specialists. Do let us know how you get on!
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Re: CIvicRM Shopping Cart for Products
February 19, 2013, 10:13:23 am
Thanks, friends. I'm really diggin' the openness of this community.

I like the idea of giving this a shot. My PHP skills extend this far: I created a registration and login app (though not encrypted) for a class. Where I lack confidence is getting that PHP to talk to he database with SQL and security. I worry about that. I will check out the documentation. Thanks!

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Re: CIvicRM Shopping Cart for Products
February 19, 2013, 10:29:23 am
I should also add that I am the project manager on this site and I might be interested in hiring out some custom work. Is there a place to do that/is it allowed on this site?

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Re: CIvicRM Shopping Cart for Products
February 19, 2013, 10:31:48 am
Quote from: nickandrea19 on February 19, 2013, 10:29:23 am
I should also add that I am the project manager on this site and I might be interested in hiring out some custom work. Is there a place to do that/is it allowed on this site?

Yes, see

Professional CiviCRM Services: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,19.0.html

and

CiviCRM Jobs: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,22.0.html
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