WebKat Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I am rebuilding a site built with a current simple CMS (Textpattern) and I am looking to add an e-commerce solution that will allow me to have a shopping cart with all the standard features... but I really need customers from outside the US to be able to have international shipping automatically added to their orders. Right now the (very, very outdated) site has no way to do this and when international orders are placed, the shop owner has to contact the customer by email and tell them the additional amount they need to send via PayPal and then wait to receive that before he can ship the merchandise. Obviously there is something better out there. Is PrestaShop it? Will it do what I need? How does it integrate with an existing site? (Can you include "add to cart" buttons and so on in existing pages, or does the customer need to visit a PrestaShop-generated page itself? Thanks for your time answering these two questions. I'm very hopeful that I may have found my solution! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave L Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Prestashop is a great shopping cart soulution and relatively easy to learn to use. There is a lot of support on this forum for the times you get stuck. Prestashop can easily handle your international shipping requirments. The shipping is 'zone' based and carriers are created to ship to a zone. Any country that is assigned that particular zone is serviced by that carrier. You can set up as many carriers as you wish. Shipping is also weight or price based allowing you to set up fees based on weight or price. Each carrier has it's own set of weight or price ranges. I'm not sure what you have in mind to integrate it into a particular site but at the very least you can install prestashop in your root direcory, in a sub-domain or in a sub-folder. You can easily link to it. But more interestingly, prestashop has it's own CMS system where you can include your CMS pages. There are links to many prestashop sites HERE that you could have a look at before committing. Hope to see you join the prestashop community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebKat Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 What I mean by integrating it is including "add to shopping cart" buttons and similar things to my existing pages, and links to the cart and to checkout, etc. I really don't want to learn whole new CMS and rebuild the site yet again. The links at that link appear to mostly go to french pages... do you have some good english examples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebKat Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 Also, does it make people who list an international shipping address use the international shipping option? I mean they can't like, pick US shipping and then list an address in France or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebKat Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 (Sorry for the serial posting) If I may tack an unrelated question onto my thread because I'm sure anyone familiar with the product can answer it: I just visited an example site and to checkout you had to register and then login. Is that required by the software, or is that a setting? Because I don't think we want people to have to register at the site... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave L Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 There may be a way to use the cart functionality on your CMS pages including using add to cart buttons but it's not part of the systemy and to do it would require some re-coding I would think. I recall seeing a post about that somewher on the forum but didn't read it. You may be able to do a search for it. On the shipping, options presented to a customer at checout are only the ones specific for their registered address, so if your customers' address is in the USA only the USA options are presented to him/her. Regarding registering on the site and logging in, there is a couple of options by default, one is where the customer registers in the usual way and creates an account, then checks out. The other is a one page checkout where the customer enters their name and address without creating an account. In reality, the only differece between the two is entering a password. The one page check out, as far as I know (I haven't used it myself) provides an option to create an account by simply adding a password. These are all inclusive in prestashop. However, there are a whole load of 3rd party modules, both free and paid for, which extend the functionality of the system. These include different shipping modules, payment modules etc. and many, many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebKat Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 Cool to know. I think that needing to register (even though all it adds is a password step) would scare off a few customers. (I know multiple people who won't register to buy from a site.) How hard is it to customize PrestaShop to use it as a CMS? Is it template driven? I don't want to use someone else's templates, I'd rather create my own site (probably use some existing stuff as a template and alter it from there)... Thanks for taking the time to answer all of my questions, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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