This looks absolutely awesome. Amazing job @DragonByte Tech
Add-on Early Preview: DragonByte eCommerce
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DragonByte Tech
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It was brought to my attention that other development studios may also use a similar process that we @ DBTech use; subcontractors or partners that receive a cut of sales of specific products. While this feature was originally intended to be DBTech-specific, I've decided to add it to the core
I will add one more feature to the core before I begin work on importers; Distributors (digital only). This will be a feature where you can allow users on your site to generate licenses for products out of thin air. Whether you have partnered with another site to sell specialised sites with your product pre-installed, or you simply want to give yourself the option to do this from the front-end, this feature has plenty of possible applications
Per-distributor controls will allow you to set the maximum duration for licenses generated this way, and an "Applicable products" input row like you see in this feature will control how many licenses of that particular product can be generated.
In the front-end, when visiting the "Your licenses" page, a "Generate Licenses" button will open a pop-up with the available products in a drop-down, options for duration (with the limit set in the AdminCP in the description), as well as an input row for the user name of the recipient (with auto-complete, obviously
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Circling back to the AdminCP, a Distributor log will let admins browse & search the log of who generated what to whom and when.
Fillip
It was brought to my attention that other development studios may also use a similar process that we @ DBTech use; subcontractors or partners that receive a cut of sales of specific products. While this feature was originally intended to be DBTech-specific, I've decided to add it to the core
I will add one more feature to the core before I begin work on importers; Distributors (digital only). This will be a feature where you can allow users on your site to generate licenses for products out of thin air. Whether you have partnered with another site to sell specialised sites with your product pre-installed, or you simply want to give yourself the option to do this from the front-end, this feature has plenty of possible applications
Per-distributor controls will allow you to set the maximum duration for licenses generated this way, and an "Applicable products" input row like you see in this feature will control how many licenses of that particular product can be generated.
In the front-end, when visiting the "Your licenses" page, a "Generate Licenses" button will open a pop-up with the available products in a drop-down, options for duration (with the limit set in the AdminCP in the description), as well as an input row for the user name of the recipient (with auto-complete, obviously
)Circling back to the AdminCP, a Distributor log will let admins browse & search the log of who generated what to whom and when.
Fillip
@DragonByte Tech can you hurry up and release it already 
Have a project which needs this last month haha.
Have a project which needs this last month haha.
DragonByte Tech
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Haha, I'm currently working on the importers, and I haven't given the product deep testing just yet@DragonByte Tech can you hurry up and release it already
Have a project which needs this last month haha.
Once the current set of importers is done, I could always compile an Alpha version for you to test to see how it would work for you
Fillip
Haha, I'm currently working on the importers, and I haven't given the product deep testing just yet
Once the current set of importers is done, I could always compile an Alpha version for you to test to see how it would work for you
Fillip
Mainly interested in the physical items side of things, so can give feedback aplenty for that.
DragonByte Tech
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Ahh, that's not even begun yet. Alfa1's posts have discouraged me from putting focus on the physical items side, since apparently I need £100k worth of man-hours put into it before it's worth bothering with
The current plan is to finish the importers, finish a ticket support mod that can integrate with this mod (which DBTech needs before we can move to XF2), and complete that move. Dog-food testing is the best kind of testing, after all
Once DBTech is set up on XF2 I'll begin work on the physical items side, I'll be sure to include you
Fillip
Ahh, that's not even begun yet. Alfa1's posts have discouraged me from putting focus on the physical items side, since apparently I need £100k worth of man-hours put into it before it's worth bothering with
The current plan is to finish the importers, finish a ticket support mod that can integrate with this mod (which DBTech needs before we can move to XF2), and complete that move. Dog-food testing is the best kind of testing, after all
Once DBTech is set up on XF2 I'll begin work on the physical items side, I'll be sure to include you
Fillip
soo.. next week
?
Ahh, that's not even begun yet. Alfa1's posts have discouraged me from putting focus on the physical items side, since apparently I need £100k worth of man-hours put into it before it's worth bothering with
Honestly, open up a shopify trial, add a couple of products and a category. Forget all the sku and stock management stuff, but look how theyve done it.
So simple, yet fully functional.
DragonByte Tech
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More testers is always good
Do you run XPM just now? If so, do you run any add-ons? The importer I’m working on just now only imports from the core.
I am using a HTML5 time input row, I forget the exact code but I will update once I’m at my computer and I can investigate
I was going to look at WooCommerce, as we host a small WP site that runs vanilla WooCommerce with some products attached.
Would you say Shopify would be a better source of inspiration?
Fillip
webmastersun
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Interesting!
Your store addon can allow users to create their own store? mean that each user can create a store to list their products on it?
or your addon only can allow users to post their products into existed categories on a store?
Your store addon can allow users to create their own store? mean that each user can create a store to list their products on it?
or your addon only can allow users to post their products into existed categories on a store?
DragonByte Tech
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The latter; into existing categories. Furthermore, in the initial release version users will not be able to sell their own products, all revenue will go to the forum. Classifieds functionality may be added to a future version.
Fillip
DragonByte Tech
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Fair enough
My only concern is real-world data, seeing how it's actually used vs how it's used when I'm just testing, although it doesn't hurt to have a wee looksee
Fillip
webmastersun
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I am searching for an eCommerce addon for xenforo 2 that allow users to create their own store, not sure there is one on this forum.
DragonByte Tech
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Doubtful, as such a project would be a massive undertaking (even compared to this!) in order to allow people to create their own categories.
Fillip
Liam W
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I ran vanilla XPM in XF Liam before I moved to XF2 and rebranded, I’m not running anything at the moment, but I would like to import the XF Liam XPM data.
Liam
DragonByte Tech
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No worries, I have 3 items left in the importer I'm writing before it'll need testing. Coupons and discounts applied to individual orders will be lost, because of significant architectural differences, but everything else should be imported fine
Fillip
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