1_Litre_Porsche_Beater
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I got a site which im hoping to go live soon, almost everything done but im not sure about what checkout thingy to use. As you can tell im not up on stuff like this so bare with me.
I need one that saves the persons contact details, gives them a ticket number and saves their selected seating position.
Obviously i need to tie this is with the payment page and need it to recognise how many tickets are bought.
My guy who is doing the web design is great at design but he hasnt had much if any experience with checkouts, any info where to look or advice is greatly appreciated.
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Brett
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Just use a google checkout or paypal checkout. Their site will do most of the work, take payments and be secure. Saves the hassle of modifying the code of an existing cart to suit.
If you're both novices then it'll show tbh.
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Cosmo
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What e-commerce backend are you using?
Most of the popular ones will have ready made modules that'll allow most payment merchants (likes of paypal, google checkout, worldpay, etc) to be linked with it fairly easily.
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Dom
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most e-commerce packages are designed to sell products rather than tickets, this is where i think you'll have problems (unless there are e-commerce package that allow you set it up for ticket selling? i don't believe there is addon for osCommerce etc).
Eitherway, the payment side of the cart is relatively easy, just piggy back onto php classes that are already out there (this is what i did when i designed my own complete cart for a company). The frontend is again fairly straight forward (just a database driven php cart), but i think it'll be something you'd have to design yourself as i don't think there off the shelf packages, certainly not free anyways.
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Dom
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have a look at wp-ecommerce, it's for wordpress but apparently you can sell tickets using it.
However, to get anything like ticketmaster where you can select seating (and have visual representations of that), i still think it's a custom job.
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Cosmo
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oscommerce will have an add on to allow ticket sales.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
oscommerce will have an add on to allow ticket sales.
if there is then it's not on the forums or OSCs contribution site, and there are a few people asking on the forums for a module but the replies have been to design something yourself.
Eitherway, it isn't a hard task for php developer especially as it'd just be the frontend that would need to be designed/coded and tacked onto a backend payment system.
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1_Litre_Porsche_Beater
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Thanks for your help guys, going to tacle it on monday so will hopefully be able to russle something up
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