Plone eCommerce: Surveying the State of the Art

Ecommerce in Plone: Surveying the State-of-the-Art Christopher Johnson ifPeople Cofounder www.ifpeople.net | cjj at ifpeople.net Plone Conference | October 8, 2008 Washington, DC

What is GetPaid? ● Zope3 and Plone-based framework for developing unique and highly customized ecommerce sites ● Very basic features available out of the box for processing payments on Plone site ● Most features and customizability benefit from developer/integrator working on site

What is GetPaid? ● 11k+ lines of code – Two major releases (0.3, 0.6) – Plone 3.0, 3.1 focus (currently also works on 2.5) ● Active community (40+ contributors) – http://www.ohloh.net/projects/GetPaid ● Mailing list: 130+ people – http://groups.google.com/group/getpaid-dev/ ● 9 Languages ● German, Italian, Dutch, French, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese

Zope 3 ● Basis of GetPaid architecture – We have no Archetypes! ● Component architecture – Nicely organized, independent packages ● Adapters + Interfaces + Views ● Marker interfaces – Used in GetPaid – Inspiration from Plone4Artist

Features ● Content Integration via Marker Interface – Buyable – Donation – Shippable – Premium content* *Not yet implemented

Features ● Shopping cart ● Checkout wizard ● Payment processor ● Order management

GetPaid Components

How to Get GetPaid ● Distribution: – getpaid.recipe.release ● tinyurl.com/gp-recipe – getpaid.buildout ● http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/wiki/DevGettingStarted ● Download: – Tarball at http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/downloads/list

Add-ons Satisfy Specific Use Cases ● One-page Checkout ● Making a Store ● Managing Inventory ● Discounts

Add button to rich text area ● – Add image – Add link to image for: ● /@@getpaid-cart-add?add_item=True Image: edkohler

● One-page checkout – See tinyurl.com/tfl-gp ● Addon: getpaid.formgen – tinyurl.com/getpaidfg ● Extend with PFG+Salesforce – Tip: edit GetPaid adapter last

How to Make a Store ● GetPaidStore – tinyurl.com/getpaidstore – Includes product archetype, workflow, views – Used for orderliterature.com ● Thanks to TOT

Inventory Management ● Track inventory stock and quantity available ● Add warehouse location info – Shows on order ● Warehouse location used in shipping calculation (UPS)

Beyond Add-ons: GetPaid Flexibility Image: yogi

Make Your Own Buyable Content ● Example particular archetypes: – Products – Donations

Make Your Own Buyable Content ● How to do it in GetPaid: – Create custom content type – Make it buyable ● Admin interface (Through The Web) ● Programmatically (see tinyurl.com/getpaid-content-doc) – Programmatically: ● Mark content type with IbuyableMarker ● Register adapter to extract relevant data from archetype – Thanks to Michael Dunstan!

Add GetPaid Info On Your Template – from Products.PloneGetPaid.interfaces import PayableMarkerMap, IBuyableMarker – if IBuyableMarker.providedBy(PrettyCoffeePot): – iface = PayableMarkerMap.get(IBuyableMarker, None) # Or any of the other markers – iface(PrettyCoffeePot).price ● ==> Returns the price – See howto at: http://plone.org/products/getpaid/documentation/ho w-to/accessing-getpaid-attributes-on-objects

Pay-to-submit Content ● Examples: – Job posting – Applications – Directory listings – Ads

Pay-to-submit Content ● Subscriber to workflow state change ● Howto at: “how-to-tie- actions-to- payments” (plone.org) www.investorscircle.net

In the works (need more help) ● getpaid.salesforce ● getpaid.paypal (IPN) ● getpaid.credit ● Shipping: Flat rate shipping, FedEx ● Taxes: flat rate ● Recurring billing – blocked by contrib access!

Proposed (not yet sponsored) ● getpaid.workflow ● Downloadable purchases (mp3, etc) ● Memberships ● Premium content

For More on Who Uses GetPaid ● Sites Using GetPaid: ● tinyurl.com/pgpsites

Beyond GetPaid... ● Plone Commerce Background: – Research into what else is available – http://www.plonegetpaid.com/why/plone-commerce- background ● EasyShop in Plone ● Satchmo in Django

Thanks! ● Kapil, Perrito, Lucie and all contributors to GetPaid ● Sponsors of GetPaid: – One/Northwest, ifPeople, Contextual Corp, Trees for Life, Totsie.com, Train of Thought ● Find us at #getpaid and http://groups.google.com/group/getpaid-dev/ ● Dive in!! GetPaid Sprint following Plone Conference ● Find me: cjj at ifpeople.net and cjj on irc

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