E-Commerce

  • My website is currently using WordPress. I was looking into creating an e-commerce solution for our company to make it easier for our existing customers to order. I know about WP e-commerce, but I’m not sure it’s flexible enough for my needs and was hoping someone with more experience can shed some light on this.

    I would want to make stores personalized by groups. We have different types of customers that don’t want to see the same types of items.

    Some customers will see the same items, but they will have a different discounting structure. I’d like to have the ability to do custom discounts off of a list price.

    The ability to take a purchase order instead of a credit card would be something I would need as a lot of these customers will have an open account with us already.

    Am I better off getting a custom built solution outside of WordPress? Any input would be appreciated.

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  • Can’t comment on WP e-commerce, as I know nothing about it, but in terms of your requirements, you could use categories to group different products together. There are a couple of plugins that allow you to create products as posts (my own, YAK, and eShop both support this, AFAIK) — so you can categorise those product-posts to your heart’s content.

    Not sure about discounting. YAK supports promotional codes, but they’re not linked to a specific product or category (at the moment). You can create multiple promotions (with % or fixed discount), so that might cover your requirements — not sure.

    The latest version of YAK supports an ‘accounts receivable’ style payment type, so that might work for a purchase order.

    Thread Starter theotheragentm

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    Yeah, I think I want too many custom things to do it inside of WordPress, but there’s no reason I couldn’t run my store off a subdomain and use different software.

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