Shopping Cart - early thoughts

Submitted by rossp on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 9:39pm

PayPal support:

My understanding, although not recently revisited, is that a PayPal transacation report delivers a transaction ID, the total amount, and a bit of buyer information (one bit, 0/1 - there is a buyer or not :-)
 
Paypal is not in the business of managing our accounting or our inventory for us.  That's our problem.  We need to record at least the following

Attributes:

  1. Tournament name, event number or some other key link.
  2. Tourney fee ($75, $65 early registration discounted fee, $xxx for "bring a table" or "bring an FSK" discounts (possible))
  3. T-shirt qty and $ total, t-shirt sizes, size quantity ($8 regardless of size - this year!!  Could be different - XXXL were higher priced last year)
  4. Medals qty total, medals fee total (whether $0 or more, we need to have a place for the fee)
  5. pins qty total, pins qty fee (even if $0) (coaches only)
  6. other items, descriptions, fees (thinking of Pizza orders, but we should be able to make anything).
 - REP

 

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ShopFLL domain creation

Submitted by rossp on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 11:15am.

Ross,  Courtney,

 
    There's more to do before we can run test purchases (so much more!)
     but I have the mysql database up, the drupal site up, the subdomain 
     setup and pointed to the drupal site.
 
     I'm now just defining the first couple of products and their attributes.
     
     We need store details setup (owner, street addr, phone.. if we want
     /need them, etc.)  By default, ubercart wants this info  (helps calc 
     taxes and shipping rates... -- probably don't need some of this?)
REP:  Mindsports is a 501(c)3 non-profit, so we won't need to collect sales tax.  Shipping will not apply in most cases, as t-shirts and medals will be distributed at tournaments.  There is the exception where medals need to be shipped to teams that failed to attend, but I don't think it's worth the brain damage now.
 
     We need to figure out a front page... top banner...   store help page...
REP: We could post a request for banner designs from teams and other registered users (Volunteers!).  Perfect opportunity to get them to feel more pride of ownership in the site and the league. 
 
     So... much.. to... do....
 
     I'm creating accounts for you with your current login and email
     but initially with 'changeme' as the password.
 
     Want you to be able to get in and see current shape and poke
     around, but please don't play until we talk...
 
     I'm giving you both site-admin for now so poking around can
     be more interesting.. but be careful... changes will set me 
     back/interfere.

Regards,
Stephen
--
Stephen M Moraco

 

 

Ross Parrent
Operational Partner
FIRST LEGO League in Colorado
fll.ColoradoFIRST.org
Ross.Parrent@ColoradoFIRST.org

Meeting Minutes, w Donald Lutz, Friday 7 Aug, 10pm

Submitted by rossp on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 6:49am.
The meeting with Donald lasted about 20 minutes, as it was soon apparent that there was no fit between Donald's team, a MS - .NET, Biztalk, Sharepoint shop and our open source platform.  
 
Subsequently, after Donald dropped the call, Stephen located the Drupal "Ubercart" modules, and we agreed that he would beging work to bring them in a "ShopFLL.ColoradoFIRST.org" domain.
 
Regarding urgency, I believe we can open registration this weekend w/o collecting fees, but we should strive to be able to collect fees prior to the Sept 15 discount registration deadline.
 
Please respond to this forum to explore and define the vision of the shopping cart:
  • Use cases
  • features and functionality
  • satisfaction criteria
  • prioritization

To assure timely distribution of our work, be sure to subscribe to changes in this forum by way of RSS or whatever.   As you can note by use of the preceding "whatever" term, I'm not exactly sure at this moment of the mechanics of that subscription.  Stephen?  :-) 

Ross Parrent
Operational Partner
FIRST LEGO League in Colorado
fll.ColoradoFIRST.org
Ross.Parrent@ColoradoFIRST.org

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