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Shopping Cart Operations => Support => General Support => Topic started by: James on August 02, 2012, 04:25:30 AM

Title: Add to Cart (redirect to another site link) possibility?
Post by: James on August 02, 2012, 04:25:30 AM

Dear All,

Here is what i want to know.

1. Abantecart is setup and running, with products and so on.
2. If a store owner has a product "XYZ" however, he has it hosted on another store (ecommerce platform)
3. If he wants to be able to redirect any user who selects (add to cart) to that third party store/link (Pure http redirect only)

Would it be possible? or any way out or in ;)


Thanks

Title: Re: Add to Cart (redirect to another site link) possibility?
Post by: abantecart on August 02, 2012, 03:57:27 PM

This will require programming a hook to all controllers that list products  in /storefront/controller/pages/product/..

Look for places that build URL with checkout/cart

Example:
$this->html->getSecureURL('checkout/cart' ....

Title: Re: Add to Cart (redirect to another site link) possibility?
Post by: James on August 03, 2012, 07:46:24 AM

Not something i will be able to do myself :)

Well would wait to see if someone can do this and post some codes / extension or so ;)

Title: Re: Add to Cart (redirect to another site link) possibility?
Post by: abantecart on August 03, 2012, 08:16:49 AM

I think this will not be required that often
Based on my 10 years working with many ecommerce clients, this came up only once or twice.
What was popular is having buy with PayPal links.

PM me if you need our team to do this for you as commercial or donation based service. 

Title: Re: Add to Cart (redirect to another site link) possibility?
Post by: James on August 03, 2012, 12:52:15 PM

Quote from: abantecart on August 03, 2012, 08:16:49 AM

PM me if you need our team to do this for you as commercial or donation based service.

For now it was a thought, however it is there in my future plans.

Will surely let you know :) once things materialize for me.

Title: Re: Add to Cart (redirect to another site link) possibility?
Post by: Nimitz1061 on August 10, 2012, 06:33:08 PM

I don't see the serious issues of how to know which product to link to on the target site or how to dissuade a duped user from bailing immediately on seeing the results of the clickthrough answered here.

Seems like a waste of time to me...

David

Title: Re: Add to Cart (redirect to another site link) possibility?
Post by: James on August 11, 2012, 02:48:56 AM

Quote from: Nimitz1061 on August 10, 2012, 06:33:08 PM

I don't see the serious issues of how to know which product to link to on the target site or how to dissuade a duped user from bailing immediately on seeing the results of the clickthrough answered here.

Seems like a waste of time to me...

David

I did not understand what you  are trying to say....  :-\   (Duped user) there is no point of a user being duped, as long as the target site / link and product are all of a single (Store owner) or partner companies.

Title: Re: Add to Cart (redirect to another site link) possibility?
Post by: Nimitz1061 on September 10, 2012, 12:15:03 PM

Duped in this case is a literal word.  It means defrauded, fooled or misled.  In short, you led the visitor to site A, and you switch them to site B.  This is pretty much the core element of a phishing attack.  While your intentions are good, I'm sure - it is going to be hard for that user to be certain of that.  Give them a reason to doubt security and the probability that they will bail on the transaction should go up...

Product synchronization should be an obvious issue here.  If product A has index of 2 on Site A but 298 on Site B how will you know which URL to redirect to ??  This is not as simple as it sounds, especially once you add in options and option values...

David