I want to make a very simple website with the ability to have real time capability to update the site as my buyers input their orders for the products they have interest in buying. The basic idea is that I resell remanufactured products like xbox , psp, ipods and with the minimum orders being high to accomodate larger volume buyers, ie 250 pcs, I want to have the ability to allow small volume buyers to place orders for whatever qty's of the items they require to get large volume pricing at smaller min order qty's. So when a particular item say xboxes, hit the minimum order allowed ie 250 pcs. the totals of all xbox buyers add up to 250 or more and then the site will update to show the real time min order qty has been reached and their orders can proceed to the next step. Emails wil be then sent to each buyer to say the min order is reached and instruct buyers to proceed to the payment page. Each item I sell will have this feature. Buyers join for free, place their contact info, proceed to place the qty's they want for each item while the site updates itself towards filling each min order requirement for the products I offer. Has anyone designed such as site or used a similar site to place such orders for products. Its kind of like coop buying for small volume buyers at large volume prices. Of course buyers are made aware of terms and conditions in using such a site. They will obvioulsy have to be able to wait for a period of time until the min order is reached. Buyers that abuse the system will be banned. If payment is not pmade with x period of tiem they will be banned.
Hi, There are several ways to do what you ask. I'm a PHP freak so I always use PHP and MYSQL. Do you have access to PHp and mYSQL on your server? If so you could just increment a value in a table. I have a similar option that I use for my own invoice tracking. Once an order is place, processed, paid for my script connects to my database and retrieves the last invoice number then adds 1 to it, then the new value gets put back into the database and I now have the next invoice number to do what I want with. You could do the same thing by writing to a text file on your server then reading the number from there. I can show you some samples if you want? Mike