Need Your Advice for eCommerce on my site

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by cali boy, Jan 17, 2013.

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    My site at www.surfimages.com has a shopping cart. What my business is been geared for in the past is marketing to magazines, ad agencies and brands. When you add a image into the cart you then fill in the information. With the information we then look over how the client wants to license our image and in return we send them an email including the licensing terms and a price. One agreed on by both parties we then send the image (original file) to the client.

    Now this is where I need YOUR help...

    We want to sell (not license) prints, posters and wall murals. Can you suggest how I can customize my shopping cart by taking credit card information. So say if you want to buy a poster from us for $36.95 somewhere on the shopping cart the area will not get confused with the clients that want to "license" photos from us. So in the end we license our photos and we want to sell also.

    I want to make the shopping cart VERY EASY for the user. Any suggestions... Thanks, JE
     
    cali boy, Jan 17, 2013 IP
  2. cali boy

    cali boy Member

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    I may have figured it out. On the top of the shopping cart above the word/box "Company" I would have it read:

    I want to
    License a photo (with a box the user can check)
    Buy a Print, Poster or Wall Mural (with a box the user can check)
    Other (with a box the user can check)

    Now if the user checks the Buy a Print, Poster, Wall Mural box when the get to the bottom and hit the "submit" button
    a shipping and billing info box will appear in a new window.

    Now if the user clicks on either "License a photo and or "other" then they will fill out all the information and when they hit the submit button
    no pop up window appears, but and email gets sent to me. Make sense?
     
    cali boy, Jan 17, 2013 IP
  3. muffet

    muffet Active Member

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    Are you trying to set up your shopping cart similar to iStockPhoto were a client can purchase a licensed image from your company or somebody else (i.e. photographer)?
     
    muffet, Jan 18, 2013 IP
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    cla49 Well-Known Member

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    Great site, why don't you just use an online platform that will take care of all of that for you, like shopify..
     
    cla49, Jan 21, 2013 IP
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    dsmlacctv Greenhorn

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    if its right what i am getting from your post is,you could have something written on image as your product this could be done using programming
     
    dsmlacctv, Jan 21, 2013 IP
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    ijoome Well-Known Member

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    Use Magento,Which will fulfill yours requirements i think
     
    ijoome, Jan 22, 2013 IP