Checkout and other web store software
Hi,
We are currently investigating all opportunities to switch our online sales away from Enstore. We are waiting for more then 2 years now for any kind of improvements and are fed up with it.
On the other hand, we are quite pleased with how Checkout works, so it would be pity if we have to leave Checkout also because of Enstore. Because Enstore is why we bought Checkout in the first place, we wanted a POS system that ingetrated perfectly in a webshop solution.
So, my question is if there is a chance that there is gonna be some kind of API to connect Checkout with other webshop solutions? I don't expect there is but I'm just making sure, so that I can not fault myself afterwards.
It is with pain in the heart that I have to say this because there was a time when I was sooo convinced of your products, but you lost me... Your laxity is just keeping our business from growing and I can no longer accept that.
Kind regards,
Tim Peeters
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Checkout Support on 23 Jul, 2013 02:25 PM
Hi Tim,
Thanks for your email.
If you take a look at our latest blog post, we talk about Ecommerce and integration with Shopify. Take a take a look at it below.
https://checkoutapp.com
Thanks,
James
Checkout Support
Checkout Support closed this discussion on 23 Jul, 2013 02:25 PM.
TimP re-opened this discussion on 23 Jul, 2013 03:42 PM
3 Posted by TimP on 23 Jul, 2013 03:42 PM
Hi James,
I think I received this in an e-mail also. It actually gave us the last
push to try and create our own Checkout <-> Opencart connection. We've
been working on it since about a week now and it's working out very
well! Infact it's almost ready to go live. We can already sync all
products from Checkout to Opencart and we can sync all customers and
orders from Opencart to Checkout, and that's about all we need :) We are
now finishing up with configuring everything and refreshing the design
and we hope to go live with it in a week or two. I'm really thinking why
I didn't come up with this earlier, because it's really a perfect
solution for us!
If you are interested, I will let you know when it's online.
The question about the comments was offcourse because we now have a
"comments" field in our checkout process in our online shop. It is
synced to Checkout and it would be useful to have it printed on the
invoice, but if it's not possible it's not a big problem.
Regards,
Tim
4 Posted by Jonny on 25 Jul, 2013 03:10 AM
Hey Tim, will it be able to sync stock QTYs live?
5 Posted by TimP on 25 Jul, 2013 06:47 AM
Hey Jonny,
Not live but I've created a launchd job to update them every half an
hour. The sync of only stock QTYs takes about 2 minutues for our store
with about 600 products and lots of variations. The sync of all product
data takes about 5 minutes, but compared to the syncs with Enstore you
only have to do this when you change something on a product. There's a
third sync that runs every 5 minutes and imports the client and order
data (this only takes a few seconds).
Regards,
Tim
6 Posted by Jonny on 25 Jul, 2013 06:50 AM
Interesting! Is it something you are willing to share? Is it a stand along mac app?
7 Posted by TimP on 25 Jul, 2013 07:10 AM
I'm not a cocoa programmer, only web-developer, so it's written in php
and runs in the terminal. Not very fancy to look at, but it works :) On
the computer where you run it you will need to have access to both your
Checkout system and your mysql database from Opencart (check with your
hosting provider if remote access is possible).
I have no problem to share this, but it's quite tailored to our needs,
it could require some (or a lot) of adaptations for your use...
It's merely an 'in between solution' for us, because I still hope that
Checkout is going to have some kind of open API in the future that makes
it a lot easier to connect software like Opencart. Then it could also
react to triggers within Checkout so that it (for example) doesn't have
to sync àll products but only the ones that changed. Theoretically that
could provide a live sync of stock info btw.
It also required a lot of extensions and vqmod's to the Opencart system,
so I would need to have them listed up so you know what to install. I'll
think about it when we finish the work on our own stores in a few days. :)