Russ

I have doctored my current 4.3.4 store to advise international customers not to pay immediately, but to wait while I cook up a postage quote for them. Small errors in weight calculations can become quite expensive for international sales, so I like to charge a price that I know will cover the actual cost. I tell international customers to select the Direct Deposit payment option (I have modified the text to be ‘Direct Deposit and International Customers) to park the order. I find a shipping solution, add the shipping to their invoice, then send them an email guiding them to the parked order so they can pay. Is there an out-of-the-box solution for this in CC 6.5? I am trying to wriggle out of developing a new solution… Thanks for your help, Russ

Cubists! I am working like a navvy to move from CC 4.3.4 to CC 6.5. It ain't easy… One of my challenges is ‘upsell product’ migration. Many of my products (notebooks, the paper kind) have accessory products (dividers, business card pockets, bookmarks etc) that people will buy if they know they exist, but wont look for if they don’t already know about them. To assist my customers achieve greater product satisfaction (and to deliver larger sale, as a mere by-product, you inderstand) my product descriptions have a copied-and-pasted block that starts with “You may want to consider souping up your notebook with these fine accessories” and then lists a bunch of links relevant to this particular product. In my old store, I just copied and pasted the appropriate list into the books’ descriptions. This creates a bit of an overhead when I wake up at 3am having thought of something else that should be assigned to a particular product group - I have to track the all candidates down one-by-one and update them individually. This raises two inconveniences: The links will change when I move into my new store (they are currently of the form “catid=66” wheres presumably the new store will have seo-friendly URLs); There is a lot of duplication - there ate maybe six or seven variations on the optional products lists, but they are duplicated - every notebook description has its own copy so there are hundreds of dups. Can anyone suggest a solution to this? For item 2, it would be nice, for e.g., to be able to put something like an ‘include’ clause into the description that loads a shared document so all products that take the same accessories get the links at runtime from a single source document. The first problem is probably unavoidable, unless the 6.5 can handle olde-style “catid” references as well as the SEO-friendlys. But maybe it can? This would allow me some flexibility after go-live and potentially avoid a mess of broken links. Here’s hoping! Thanks in advance for your help, Russ

B’Smither, you are as a god among men. Thank you! I looked everywhere, honest… except there. More questions to folliw, Russ

So - nine years on, has the developer-document situation changed? In particular, this link no longer works. I salivate when thinking about what tasty treasures it must have contained! I am finally biting the bullet and moving from my beloved CC*** 4.3.4 to 6.5.3 and I need to code up an extension. So an extension-coders guide would save a lot of reverse-engineering. Any hope of that, then? Russ *** Not really beloved - more like "so heavily modified that upgrading seems impossible in this particular lifetime". But my next life will probably be as a dragonfly so I won't be continuing with it then...

Theodore, Robert, Thank you both for your help. I will apply your suggestions and report back. Russ

Al, Thanks for the snappy response. This problem is a blessing and a curse. The curse is that it involves a lot of thinking and the blessing is that it probably has one of those really nifty multi-level UPDATE-WHERE-SELECT solutions that make the solver feel like such a smug bastard when it finally works. Could it be that I am running the oldest version of CubeCart in circulation? Russ

Howdy campers! I installed CC 4.3.4 way back in 2009, got all enthused with PHP and enhanced it to Mars and back, and I have been putting off upgrading it ever since because it was very easy to convince myself I didn’t have the time, and everything else looked shinier and way more fun. However, Paypal is starting to act up ornery, and the Australia Post integration is threatening to close down, so I am being half-Nelsoned into it. Plus also, after taking 6.5 for a test drive, I am rather amazed at all the new stuff it does! Did you know it lets you print a whole bunch of orders at once instead of opening each one and printing them one at at time? Whoa - talk about modern! Anyhow, one of the first things I did was install Estelle Winterflood’s excellent Stock Levels for Product Options mod, since 200 of my 260 products have a choice of colour. One of the as-yet undetermined parts of the upgrade is migrating the SLPO colour stock levels to the CC6 equivalent. I can work this out myself with a bit of time and effort, but if someone has a documented procedure for it, it would give me half a chance of getting the upgrade done this year. So, eventually, we get to the question: Does anyone have (a probably ancient, yellowing, written-in-pencil) procedure for migrating Estelle’s SLPO tables to CC’s native product options data structures? Thanks (in anticipation!) Russ