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