Can eCommerce power an Auctions site?
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Brianv - Mon, 2007-09-17 16:36
Hello
A potential client recently approached me to ask for a quote on a site he wanted built. In short, the site is to be similar to http://ridesafely.com.
Ideally, I would prefer to base the site on Drupal. However, my quote will depend heavily on whether eCommerce has the capability and maturity to run auctions like would be needed here.
I have heard that auctions are a feature in the 4.x release. Is this true? And would the module be able to handle the type of auctions required here?
I appreciate any thoughts & comments!
Brian
I did an auction site....
using ecommerce 5.x-3.0. If you would like to check it out www. e x c l u s i v e g e n e t i c s . com
I was pretty happy with the functionality and modified the code as needed.
Good Luck.
B
Thanks for pointing me to
Thanks for pointing me to that. Interesting industry...
I'm glad to see that the Auction functionality is in 3.0 - it looks great, and should more than handle what I need it for.
Brian
Auction module
Brian,
auction is part of the eC package since the begging. Its a basic one, i must say. No complex and ultimate features. However, it does the job.
im personally improving it a bit for eC4. its mostly bug fixes and some features people asked much. im also expanding the views integration so it will be possible to personalize the product catalogs at will.
if you program and want to colaborate, your completely welcome.
regards,
massa
auction improvements for EC4
just thought i would mention a feature we are trying to implement (programmatically) and you might like to think about for EC4. When an auction goes unsold, we want to be able to put it back up for auction after a period of time. Currently our process is to move the bids to an archive bid table, delete the bids for the particular product node, then chenge the auction end date to the appropriate time in the future. Another situation we are looking to implement is to convert the auction to a regular product and be able to offer as an open sale item. Thanks for all the awesome work you and your EC team are doing. Regards....
New features!
Bruce,
Nice features! I would love to take a look on your code after its functional.
on our issues list, someone publish a patch that alow a "Buy now" option, similar to big auction sites. but im looking for something like using the current code. A "But now" is similar to other product types on eC, so why create a entire new feature? Im gonna see how i can do this using the most eC4 as possible. Probably using the "product features" feature that we implemented
regards,
massa
Hi massa. Roughly when
Hi massa.
Roughly when should eC4 be ready? I realize it's tough to put a date on it, but are we looking at several weeks? Several months?
As far as development of it goes, unfortunately my time for pet projects is somewhat limited, and I have a dozen or so already! However, if I get the two contracts I am quoting which would make extensive use of the Auction functionality, chances are I may be changing and updating the module to fit my needs as closely as possible. If that happens, I would be happy to make any changes available to the wider community.
Of course, that all depends on what the specification for these two contracts turn out to be exactly, and what eC4 will be like - on the other hand I may find that it suits my needs right out of the box.
We are hoping to have v4 out
We are hoping to have v4 out about 1 month after the first rc release of Drupal 6. This will be available only for Drupal 5, but we hope that there will be enough time to port to Drupal 6 to be able to release at about the same time, or just after the release of Drupal 6.
I am creating alpha releases ATM to stimulate interest in v4 and to help get it ready faster. Once we are feature complete I will be starting to release betas
Cannot find screen where an Auction Item is created
Hi all,
After installing Official release ecommerce-5.x-4.x
and installing all ecommerce-related modules (including Auction), onto Drupal 5.3,
I tried Create Content->Product.
But the Auction Item is missing, only Shippable Product & Non-shippable Product are available
Other observations:
1. Auction Item does appear under "eCommerce Config->Product Types".
Same problem happened when I tried the latest Development release ecommerce-5.x-4.x-dev.tar.gz
Platform here is Fedora5, mysql-5.0.18, php-5.1.2, if that matters.
Sorry if I overlooked anything .... Pls help.
Regards,
Michael
Feature > Product type > Node type
Mchael,
there is no bug. the new system on e-Commerce deals product types in a different matter.
in you case, you should "edit" your node type (probably product) and add Auction product type. Doing this, you will be able to create products and them select that is a auction product.
regards,
massa
PS: i suggest to use IRC or issues list when you want report a "bug". ;)
Thanks for your prompt help
Massa
Sure, will meet u guys there soon.
Michael