michaelbain

michaelbain successfully coded and implemented a complete online store cataloque, shopping cart and checkout solution for http://www.equalzeal.co.za.

Visual design assistance by pixelmagic.

http://www.equalzeal.co.za runs on e107 and this is a custom PHP and MySQL solution.

Some very exciting and advanced features were included ….

Shop
The shop is only available to registered users. Products are displayed based on the user class/type. Prices are displayed based on the type of user as well. From the shop, users can add items to their cart, or browse the shop by product categories tailored to their user type.

Cart
The cart support the following functionality:

• The cart is available to the user between browser sessions and is saved for them in the database
• The cart looks up the latest prices, if prices have changed since the user added the item to the cart
• The cart allows for the removal (on an item basis) of items
• The cart allows for grid editing of item quantities

Checkout
The user can check out and choose to pay offline (in which case an order form is mailed to EqualZeal and the client copied). This order is then marked as “To be billed before shipment”. The cart is then also cleared.

The user can check out and pay by credit card. If credit card payment is successfull, an order form is mailed to EqualZeal and the client copied. This order is then marked as “PAID”. The cart is then also cleared. If the online payment is unsuccessfull, the cart is retained and the buyer can check out again and pay offline, or try online payment with a different credit card.