[TYPO3-commerce] custom orders: can Commerce do this?

[Rik Willems]

Hi Stefano,

This makes it a little clearer already. With creating orders, do you 
just mean selecting products from a list and adding those to a shopping? 
Finalized with a checkout that actually creates the order?

Commerce is full of hooks that you can use to expand and modify its 
behaviour. Through those hooks you can create the safe buying of pdf 
books, paper subscription. The buying of 'normal' products is of course 
supported standard.

If you look at the code and use that appropriately I guess you could 
also create orders in commerce through your own extension. But I'm not 
sure if that would be a good idea. But, commerce does support the use of 
external databases/services for getting prices, inventory and I suppose 
also the products itself.

I'm convinced that commerce would be a good starting point for your 
problem. But I would advice you to first describe your problem on paper 
very well. From there you can make the right choices.

Hope that helps. If you have more questions or if anything is unclear 
just write a reply. Anybody can have or gain insights from these 
discussions.

Greets!



Stefano Cecere schreef:
> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:32:24 +0100, Rik Willems <rik at actiview.nl> wrote:
> 
>>>  can i tell Commerce: create an order with this "description, title, 
>>> amount" for this fe_user?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Stefano,
>>
>> Commerce is very flexible and extendable. In that way it can do almost 
>> anything you like. Can expand on your question a little bit? To be 
>> honest I really do not have a clue about what you want.
> 
> thank you Rik
> 
> i have a custom extesion that allows my fe_users to create and send 
> their "orders" (based on very complex system)
> right now all the payment/invoicing is done manually, after the orders 
> are sent.
> 
> what we want now is to setup a complete cart, where fe_users can do 
> common commerce things (buy PDF book, subscribe to papers !, buy gadgets 
> and.. PAY these custom orders done with this current existing ext.
> 
> so i was wandering how easy it was to use Commerce APIs (has it any APIs 
> ?) to place the order straight from my extension into Commerce cart !
> 
> i am checking also Magento (but it seems its API are not ready for this 
> task yet, and it has no subscription module yet) and also CS-Cart (same 
> situation as Magento)
> 
> any idea?
> is any Commerce developer available for this job, if we go with Commerce?
> 
> thank
> stefano
> 
>