Need a shopping cart with subscriptions and more

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by AuthoredFY, Aug 13, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hi all,

    For the first time in a long time I've come up with an idea that I think is worthwhile but I can't figure out how to make it work technically. Without giving too much away, here's what I'm trying to do:

    Let's say I sell a software program with daily updates (pretend it's an anti-virus program). People buy a subscription and they're allowed to download every day's update as long as their subscription is valid. So far, so good. But, the killer feature I need is the ability to have resellers who can sign up and sell subscriptions through the shopping cart. So let's pretend Joe signs up as a reseller for me and has his own subscription. Now I want him to be able to sell the subscriptions to his own clients at a reduced cost to him (so he profits) and his clients then login to download their daily updates.

    Finally, there will be different categories of daily updates (let's say Windows, Apple, etc.) which will all cost the same price unless someone already has a subscription. So if someone is subscribed to Windows updates, they can sign up to Apple updates at a discounted price.

    My question is: does this exist? I can't find anything that has that second feature! I've considered Wordpress plugins to sell memberships but that doesn't give me the opportunity to have resellers. I can have affiliates but that isn't really the same thing.

    I could code it myself but I really can't be bothered if there is software out there already.

    Let me know if this doesn't make sense because it's late and I should be in bed but can anyone give me any suggestions?

    Thanks!
     
    AuthoredFY, Aug 13, 2012 IP
  2. orangegirl

    orangegirl Greenhorn

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    CS-Cart has the REcurring billing add-on for this. As for resellers, do they just have discounts on your products? Or sell their own products on your site? Or anything else?
     
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  3. AuthoredFY

    AuthoredFY Active Member

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    Thanks orangegirl, I haven't found CS-Cart in the hours of Googling so I'll check it out!

    Basically, yeah, they just have discounts on each subscription that I'm offering. Their customer would purchase it from them and the reseller would have to pay me whatever price I set (depending how many they've sold). It's a lot like reseller hosting except that they would be selling the ability to login and download instead of somewhere to host a website.

    Thanks for the response, I'll look into CS-Cart!
     
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  4. orangegirl

    orangegirl Greenhorn

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    Thanks for the reply. In this case, probably another CS-Cart feature will suit you - User groups. You can set different groups for your users with special prices, products, payments etc.
     
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  6. AuthoredFY

    AuthoredFY Active Member

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    Thank you, I'll look into it.
     
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    What CMS are you using?
     
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    AuthoredFY Active Member

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    I'm not. I'll be starting the site from scratch so it doesn't matter what I have to use to get the features I need.

    I'm about 99% sure I'll be coding it myself at this point!
     
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    aveh091112 Peon

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