By Max Lynam on Friday, 21 March 2014
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Hey guys .... can't find anything on your site about EasySocial eCommerce integrations.

Can you please advise the status of eCommerce integrations with EasySocial.

Do you know if Mijoshop is able to be integrated ?

Basically, main functionality required is for members of EasySocial being able to list products and sell via a (proper) eCommerce integration (if granted permission to do so).

Thanks, Max
Hello Max,

To be honest, I am not too sure if there are any "3rd party e-commerce" extensions that are integrated with EasySocial yet at this point of time However, I think I have heard from Dennis that they might be working on an integration with Mijoshop (I could be wrong at this but it's best to check with him).
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Friday, 21 March 2014 13:31
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Bummer ... was hoping for a little list to go off.

Will give Dennis a line and see how he's going with it.

Thanks Mark.
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Friday, 21 March 2014 18:05
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Yup, sure keep me in the loop as I am also looking for a solution for a customer that requires an ecommerce integration. By the way Max, what sort of integrations are you looking forward to? Perhaps we can collaborate with the team at Mijo and come up with something really cool?
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Friday, 21 March 2014 18:57
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The main thing is enabling members (who have approval via subscription, ACL, other) to be able to sell via the site, as well as purchase.

I'd like to see it have similar capabilities to Etsy. I don't really care how it is achieved ... but really want it to happen.

The advantage of using something like Mijoshop is that there's a heap of integrations available ... which means external verticals, shipping, accounting systems, etc can be integrated .... via all the Opencart integrations available ... that's not available with Joomla based solutions.

The Magento bridge (Mageshop) is not really an option.

What are your thoughts? Happy to get together with yourself, Dennis and myself and see if we can nut it out.
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Friday, 21 March 2014 19:58
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I think if we can come up with a mutual understanding of how this is going to work, it shouldn't be a problem because to be honest I am not really familiar with the whole "e-commerce" niche and have never really tried any e-commerce solutions (really!) The last I played around with was with Tienda and I deleted the site
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Saturday, 22 March 2014 02:24
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Hi there Mark.
Have some options going forward if you're wanting to email directly max -at-molehill-com-au or shoot it through linked in
Max
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Wednesday, 02 April 2014 13:35
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The main thing is enabling members (who have approval via subscription, ACL, other) to be able to sell via the site, as well as purchase.

I'd like to see it have similar capabilities to Etsy. I don't really care how it is achieved ... but really want it to happen.

The advantage of using something like Mijoshop is that there's a heap of integrations available ... which means external verticals, shipping, accounting systems, etc can be integrated .... via all the Opencart integrations available ... that's not available with Joomla based solutions.

The Magento bridge (Mageshop) is not really an option.


I think Jmarket will be nice fit for multivendor
I far as i know Joobi team currently working on BS3 and other cart features and they have plan to integrate with Easysocial. ( please note thay have already integration with jomsocial )
I apologize MARK , i am not promoting jomsocial but i want this features for easysocial too as i have plan to use ES instead of JS

Mijoshop has great features ( complete OP ) . I am also interested to see the integration with mijoshop. I got reply from them about 2 months ago that they have plan to integrate with ES . Mijoship is best for single store or multistore but when we consider as a multivendor platform 3rd party component of opencart dont perform well in mijoshop

another alternative is Hikashop with hikamarket

I am really excited to see some kind of basic integration ( stream , profile app like my product and product user bought ...... ) will be nice . Right at the moment It seems to me Jmarket and hikashop has almost every kind of multivendor feature and can be a social marketing platform in conjunction with easysocial
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Wednesday, 02 April 2014 14:32
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Hi Del .. I have looked at those options, as well as the teams behind them.

Basic integration is not what I am after ... it has to be a full blown eCommerce system and optimum vendor, customers, order and shipping management.

I have already been discussing things with a number of eCommerce solution providers and am only considering those from which we have had positive experience and replies. I'm pretty demanding from an operations and order management perspective. With this initial research it means some possible alternatives have been struck off as options.

Also important is ensuring collaboration on ongoing development, extensions/API and external integrations ... this is well beyond what is currently available and needs to be highly scalable ... so have some good options, just need to confirm best path ahead.

What ever the outcome, I would envisage the integrations would most likely be offered as eCommerce extensions for Easy Social.
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Wednesday, 02 April 2014 16:20
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Thanks for the heads up on this guys. Max, you can always write to my email, mark AT stackideas.com
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Wednesday, 02 April 2014 18:43
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You might want to look at ExtStore.com - They have developed a plugin for me which lets people pay with EasySocial points... It works pretty cool - not sure if their extensions fit what you need but they do have the experience with making them work with EasySocial. For some reason they aren't including it in the core builds - but there custom work is at a reasonable rate (or it was for me)
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Wednesday, 02 April 2014 20:04
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Nice, didn't know that such extensions exists
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Wednesday, 02 April 2014 23:59
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Hi everyone,

I am looking for an e-commerce extension as well. Like Max Lynam, I need it to be a multi-vendor system, Etsy alike. From my personal research, The two I was looking at was Jmarket (joobi) and Hikamatket.

I didn't look for e-commerce bridge solution yet trying to get everything joomla base. The good side of Jmarket is that it is integrated with all other joobi.co extensions (subscription, download file manager, jnews, jfeedback, jcontact, jauction, jtickets, etc. which make it a complete e-commerce system fully intergrated. Jmarket seems to have everything needed for a great e-commerce site and if looking for a etsy type, it is actually the only solution I know that can give you a dedicated user shop out of the box. I don't have the knowledge to say if their products are reliable (I'm a newby) but if anybody have used their services before, please let us know! The other things I'm not sure about is the that applications are managed with Jcenter. It is practical and easy to use but feel a little like you install something on top of joomla, no really in joomla!

About Hikamarket, I have tested it and everything work well but it take a while to get use to it. The way to configure modules to create a user personal shop etsy type isn't practical at all yet maybe powerful if you are a power user, but i'm not!! Now because they only develop Hikashop/hikamarket, they do have more integrations with other company extensions... but more company to deal with, support, update process...


Hope Stackideas will be able to find us the best possible solution! Personally the main feature I'm looking for my user to have their own personal shop (like Easyblog Standalone blogger mode, so If using an extension like JMS multisite, you can actually create complete website using the content of a master site and get them all connected!).
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Thursday, 03 April 2014 00:52
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Thanks for the heads up on this. Will write the Max
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Thursday, 03 April 2014 01:36
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Considering current available feature I will go with JMARKET for multivendor website. mijoshop is way far to use as multivendor platform in joomla ( opencart have 3rd party addon though )
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Thursday, 03 April 2014 03:22
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hey guys ... thanks for your input - it is appreciated

I'd be interested in your feedback about JMarket - functional specs look good, but not sure about the product or devs ... always willing to get extra feedback and information.

will update you guys as progress is made.
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Thursday, 03 April 2014 08:47
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Thanks Max
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Thursday, 03 April 2014 11:06
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@Max Lynam.

Joobi.co offer a free 30 days trial for all they extensions. I already test it (a while back), love the way it was working (a lot of possibilities) but had a few conflict with my (old) template and didn't had time to get further
Anyway I don't have the technical skills to actually look at their code and other things like that to know if it is well written and easy to customize.

Hope someone with those skills will test drive it and give us more feedback.
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Thursday, 03 April 2014 12:27
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Hey Guys,

I'm interested in this as-well.
My most concern with Jmarket is that their forum doesn't look as active as Hikashop/Hikamarket, and the reviews for Hikashop are amazing, support & code wise.
Jmarket development & support doesn't seem as rapid, but I'm not sure of this...
I'm looking for a Multi -Vendor solution as-well and still not sure. I also need the 'Social Shopping' feature as Wanelo/Fancy functionality and really want Easysocial integration for this.

Any more feedback on this please?

Thanks
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Monday, 14 April 2014 16:11
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Hello Robi,

How does "Social Shopping" works? I am pretty interested in this myself.
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Monday, 14 April 2014 19:08
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Hey Mark,

Thanks for your quick response.
Good examples for this are Pinterest, Fancy.com and Wanelo type sites.
Users can Tag, Save, Buy, Share, follow users/stores or sell products (optional). Check Fancy.com or Wanelo.com or fashiolista.com to understand more what this means.
As most of these options are already implemented in Easysocial core, I don't think it will be too much work integrating these features into a shopping cart/product pages.

I believe this is in very high demand nowadays for most E-commerce startups, implementing social engagement into E-commerce is very popular today if not a 'must'.

The 2 shopping carts I found who might be a good integration for this are HikaShop/HikaMarket and JMarket. As I said before HikaShop appears to have fast and excellent support and very active forum, which is very good. as for JMarket, the features and out of the box list looks very promising, but the forum is not that active and I have no idea how is the support nor the quality of code.

If any more guys here have any more input/ideas/feedback on this I'll appreciate it.

Thanks
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Monday, 14 April 2014 19:48
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Hi. In my sense Social shopping may lead someone to another direction. I think any ecommerce ( multi vendor for sure ) component with very tight integration with community component may consider as social commerce . possible integration with easysocial : # vendors profile ( may be a easysocial app )

# Buyer profile ( again ES app with the list products they bought)

# feed on various events ( e.g. user a has just bought the product or user d commented on the product or user c rated a product or liked the product )

# profile and avatar integration for vendors ( to keep unified profile system )

May be there will be few other small integration may act as social ecommerse system with easysocial

Both hikashop and jmarket has multivendor option . as i know jmarket some kind of integration with jomsocial .

HELOW ROBI : i believe jmarket give support for their paid members ( not sure how good it is though ) . Community forum is not active
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Monday, 14 April 2014 20:02
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Hey Del,

Yes, you are correct, vendors/sellers profile should be integrated, showing their 'store' and list of products...
Users should be able to upvote/rate/like/etc. each product as-well.

Thanks
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Monday, 14 April 2014 20:19
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In terms of EasySocial's concern, does this mean that it would basically:

1. List down a list of products the user purchased on their profile

2. When they make a purchase through JMarket / Hikashop, it appears on the stream?

3. If the user is a seller, display a list of products that they sell from JMarket / Hikashop?

4. Display a list of items the user marked as favorite in their profile?
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Monday, 14 April 2014 23:13
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In terms of EasySocial's concern, does this mean that it would basically:

1. List down a list of products the user purchased on their profile

2. When they make a purchase through JMarket / Hikashop, it appears on the stream?

3. If the user is a seller, display a list of products that they sell from JMarket / Hikashop?

4. Display a list of items the user marked as favorite in their profile?


Hello Mark , Basically these integration is very good starting point
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Monday, 14 April 2014 23:31
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Yes Mark, that can be a good start.
It will also be good to differentiate a bit the profile page for sellers/stores/brands (icon/tag/image/other).

Thanks
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 01:41
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Hi Mark (et al),

I have not forgotten you Mark ... your email and my draft reply are in my email ready to be completed I am spending "spare" time managing the Joomla 3.3 Release Marketing efforts ... so this is on hold until the release settles in after another week or so.

I'll put this very plainly for everyone's benefit - what my minimum requirements would be.

- every person who is a member on the site has a profile ... they by default will be a buyer, but can also apply to be a seller.

Buyer (default)
- should be able to favourite, share, follow, love, etc products as well as buyer profiles.
- profile will probably list the things they follow, love, etc as well as post the items they have shared (posting purchased products to their timeline would have to be opt in).
Basically, they have the usual expected eCommerce functionality, but can but from many suppliers/products on the one site/profile/transaction, but with a social/community twist. One of the big bonuses of this is that it can be integrated into a "private" community, with extra functionality/engagement brought in via the social platform, beyond the basics of eCom.

Seller
Profile default page replaces the public "stream" with their store profile.
- store profile has the store header and then products underneath.
- click through to store details page, which has about store type information and shows feedback, who loves, etc.
- click through product detail has your expected product details and buy now.
- admin area where they can setup products, their profile, payment, shipping, etc
- order processing area giving communication with buyer, order management (updates/edit), payment processing, shipping/tracking, etc
Basically, a seller has a fully functional eCommerce admin for PHYSICAL products ... so has to properly handle shipping, logistics, order management, Those who you have actually run brick-and-mortar eCommerce operations you would understand the the product presentation on an eCom site is a minimal amount of the total operation ... the backend order admin, workflow, integrations, etc that are really important and will be what makes a multi-vendor eCom solution successful (or not).

FYI: neither jMarket or HikaShop are primary contenders on my list at this time.
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 08:13
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This is fascinating. I am so interested in following this thread. I am replying here to be subscribed to this thread. We also really want to sell digital products.

Sean Carney
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 09:41
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For digital products, please don't overlook MediaStore (http://www.extstore.com) - They have already done an EasySocial points check-out integration - They just need some encouragement and extra interest to make it a 'standard feature' (they did it as a paid custom development for me)
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 10:07
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Thanks for the heads up on this guys.
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 10:23
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Well said Max.
Do you know any other good candidates for Multi-Vendor solution other than jMarket or HikaMarket (Native Joomla, not a bridge or similar)?

Thanks
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:42
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I am looking primarily at working with Parth on http://techjoomla.com/quick2cart.html and seeing if we can get it to do what we are after.

Essentially, this was written right from the start to work with Joomla core and other CCK/components with multi-vendor being a primary consideration. It will need some work to get it to the standard I think it needs to be, but I think has a better starting point for multi-vendor social eCommerce than the other "traditional" carts.

Don't hit him up with a heap of contacts and information or other requests, as that may distract from the end game ... but do have a look and play with it.

I'll be back on spending more time on this after the 3.3 release - only a week away I am sort of under the pump to ensure we have a lot of marketing collateral under control - but after that will be more free to spend time on this as well. FYI: I will open up some collaborative docs at that time as well, so we can do a truly group/community dev effort to build an awesome solution.

... also, keep in mind that the dev partners (StackIdeas, Tech Joomla, myself, etc) of this need to get remuneration for the extensions and it's maintenance ... so it is unlikely it will be a free extension ... even if you do contribute suggestions, ideas, etc during dev ... but, you will obviously have a lot more likelihood to those ideas and suggestions being part of the product and serving your requirements
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:28
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Thanks for updating us on this Max
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:37
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Hey Max,

Looks interesting... I'm not sure however about the 'complex' features needed for the multi-cart like commissions levels, adaptive payments, bundle prices, affiliates, etc.
What interesting is the native support for Joomla content (jReviews???).
In my opinion, a perfect solution will be using jReviews as the product page as it has an awesome support, great product and high quality code. so maybe a combination of:

1. jReviews.
2. Easysocial.
3. quick2cart (if it had all features as HikaMarket/jMarket).

Can make the perfect kick-ass Multi-vendor Shopping cart, with the perfect 'social shopping' experience!

Any opinions in this guys? Maybe we can 'hook' the 3 teams to work on this?

Thanks
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:56
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First i have to say that quick to cart have no shipping option suitable for multivedor ecommerce . for multi vendor you cant use other cck ( other cck is only supported for single store ) . also note that integration with easysocial is also basic ( like vendors product lists apps , activity stream .... ). I have tried this
I am still counting on Jmarket or Hikamarket . Both jmarket and Hikaarket have plan to integrate with easysocial . Just we need to push them
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:10
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LOL ... thanks Robi. Already have hooked in EasySocial and quick2cart devs ... as they both work with native Joomla, then it will be easy to hook in reviews, etc.

quick2cart does already have commissions, adaptive payments, bundles, affiliates, etc built in ... they just don't market it very well on their product page I am going to go through all of these with Parth after the 3.3 release (he is also part of Joomla marketing team). Note that quick2cart also already has a dev plugin API ... allowing easy add-on dev.

Yes - the support for native content, CCKs, etc and already social integrations gives us a good start ... I believe already it has better features for easy-social type integration than any of the other options ... without coding it all from scratch.
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Out of jMarket and HikaMarket I think the only really viable option would be HikaMarket ... but each to their own
- yes, aware of stated current limitations ... hence my comment:
"It will need some work to get it to the standard I think it needs to be, but I think has a better starting point for multi-vendor social eCommerce than the other "traditional" carts."
.. but will re-review the hika approach ... but not sure if it's suitable for what I think is needed.
- what do you mean no shipping option suitable for multi-vendor eCommerce? The only real way to have multi-vendor shipping is for each vendor to set the shipping for their products as they wish ... which I've already discussed with the quick2cart guys.
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:18
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Also, keep in mind, we need to see this from both prospective, B2C and B2B.
The vendors/brands have to have a good and easy way to setup, and on updating/publishing products, and more than the basic data analytics stats on traffic and optimizations.
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:34
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Love this discussion as I've been waiting for a while to choose the best extension e-commerce for my site!!

I agree that using an extension writed to work with joomla core would be better except in my case! My goal is to create a marketplace where each vendor could create a complete website (with their own domain name...) to display their product but still have all items from all vendor in the master site.
Except if the joomla project decide to make joomla multisite by default, I have to use JMS multisite to do so and the problem is that extensions that use joomla core make it difficult or impossible to integrate with Jms multisite. For example, an extension using joomla core categories make it impossible...

Any ideas if joomla may become multisite? So I could stay with extensions using joomla core.
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Wednesday, 16 April 2014 03:38
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Hi Guys,

Just so you know what Quick2Cart already does with EasySocial & What levels of integrations are already planned, check this documentation :

https://techjoomla.com/documentation-for-quick2cart/integration-with-easysocial.html
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Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:33
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Hi Parth,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm not sure I fully understand what Quick2Cart does. I thought it adds cart functionality to Joomla core content, not as content by itself (cck).
Also, not seeing which other payment systems supported aside Paypal. shipping I see is not yet implemented, what about subscription based + adaptive payments model possibility? bundle prices option, related items and so and so...
Will it be possible to use jReviews as the CCK and product display for it (as jReviews uses Joomla core content)?
jReviews has many features and content logic to make it whatever you need including products relations logic, perfect reviews and ratings system and much much more. The one thing it's missing is the cart option (and all features necessary for it).

Thanks
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Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:41
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Hey Guys,

Any more updates or insights on this?
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Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:45
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Hi Robi !

Somehow i got the notification now.. So let me clarify.. Actually Quick2Cart has 2 Avatars so to say.. One is a CCK cart that transforms existing CCKs & Joomla content into cart items.. However with v2.0 ,we added our Own Mini Product manager with Multi Store & Multi Vendor.. Thats the Social Cart Angle..

It has tight integrations with Social Network extensions & EasySocial support was also added recently. The integrations with ES are well documented in the blog post link i posted above.. It also has Adaptive payment support to use in a Market place scenario for Comissions. Overall on the Payment plugin side over 15 different payment systems are supported ( all our Common payments API plugins are supported basically http://techjoomla.com/cpg.html)

We have got a couple of Requests to use JReviews as a Product management system.. But not enough yet to make it a top priority.. If you can make some noise about it on the JReviews community & refer ppl to bug us about it, we can consider speeding it up.. However with the Social Cart approach , keeping it simple with our native product manager works best right now..
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Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:28
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Hi Parth, thanks for the updates.

Will it ever be a full blown e-commerce platform solution (hika/jmarket/etc.)?
Just a thought, wouldn't it be "easier" to rely on a good popular CCK for the products display and uploads etc., and focus solely on the Cart & Multi Vendor options and advanced features?

Thanks
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Thursday, 24 April 2014 17:45
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Well on one side that is the idea.. And in the next version, Multi vendor & Multi store will also work with CCKs.. However when you are using a CCK it might not be as user friendly & Simple for end users.. Our Product manager is for those simpler cases.. If you want a full blown cck , you can use it as well..

Well Quick2Cart already has over 500 subscribers using it on quite a lot of live sites as a proper e-commerce systems.. Its built to be just enough.. Right now the main things we are missing is Better Shipping which will come in the next version
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Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:07
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Parth Lawate wrote:

Well on one side that is the idea.. And in the next version, Multi vendor & Multi store will also work with CCKs.. However when you are using a CCK it might not be as user friendly & Simple for end users.. Our Product manager is for those simpler cases..


You are absolutely right on this Parth, that's why I've only mentioned jReviews and not other CCK's. jReviews is the most powerful and user friendly a CCK can be, and you can 'build' anything with it with any field for submitting and displaying as you wish...
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Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:33
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Hi Everyone,

I'm one of the Joobi team member. I would like to update everyone about the jMarket & EasySocial integration.

Mark already provided us a copy of ES and the development will begin shortly after the BS3 design release next week (end of April). It will have the exact feature from the current JS integration we have.
If you want more out of jMarket and & ES together, please let us know so we can look into it.

These will be the features;
1. All store activity will automatically renders a title, description and preview image in your EasySocial wall
*Products, Categories & vendors updates, views, like/dislike, watch, favorite, comments and share.

2. My Items, My Orders, My Subscription listed in your EasySocial Profile.

For support, it is best to use the Ticket Support to get a priority. Free users can always access the Priority Support anytime, it's not restricted at all.

I'll keep you posted about the progress.
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Friday, 25 April 2014 05:51
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Hi Cheryl,

Thank you for the heads up
Sam
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Friday, 25 April 2014 11:46
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Hi Cheryl , Thankyou . I used different solution and decided to use Jmarket and last 1 month I am waiting for new version with BS3 . about Jmarket My thought is , it is the only component in joomla which has proper features of multivendor . So i am waiting for easysocial integration. Unfortunately Itried to post in JOOBI forum but caught by spamfilter several times
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Friday, 25 April 2014 13:25
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Hey Cheryl,

Thanks for the updates.
Are there any plans for a bit 'deeper' integrations as mentioned above (fashiolista.com/Wanelo.com)? is there a well documented and detailed API for jMarket for further features? What about Modules and display/view options of products?

Thanks
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Friday, 25 April 2014 14:24
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@del ron
Please contact us directly using the ticket system not the forum or email me directly cherryl (at) joobi.co
https://www.joobi.co/support/ticket-support.html

@Robi
Honestly, we do not have deeper plans yet like wanelo.com since this is the first time someone asked about it and our development is highly driven by customers demand. You contact me directly if your question is something specific to Joobi products and not so related to EasySocial to not go outside the main topic of this thread.
Thank you.
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Cheryl,

Good to see you here If you guys need any help at all, let me know. I am also working on an API generator for 3rd party developers (Almost there, http://stackideas.com/apps/generator )
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Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:47
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I really wish that the folks at HikaShop would work with you to get integration built. But, they say they are too busy with payment gateways. They do have an integration with JomSocial. I asked them about the integration with EasySocial

Here was my message to Nicolas there:
I keep coming back periodically looking to see if HikaShop integrates yet with the StackIdeas software; EasySocial, EasyDiscuss and EasyBlog. I need a shopping cart and HikaShop seems like the best choice except so far it won't integrate with my other components which are from StackIdeas. Hope HikaShop and StackIdeas software integration will come soon. Any work being done on this yet?
I know that Mark from StackIdeas will be VERY helpful to you.
Thank you,
Sean Carney
http://www.Starch-smart.com

And this is what they replied to me:
Hi,

Integrations can be done on both ends. We'll be very helpful to him if he wants to integrate his extensions with HikaShop too
On our end we have a hell of a todo list (just for the payment plugins, we have a list of 60 even though we already have more than a 100 available) and as I said in my previous message, we don't have any plan for that in the short term.
Note that you can also ask our partners for a quote on such integration projects if that's something you would be willing to pay for:
http://www.hikashop.com/home/our-partners.html

I then replied to them:
Hello Nicolas,
Yes, I am sure that the integrations can be done on both ends. :-)
I will let the folks in the forum at StackIdeas know that HikaShop has no intention of developing any integration with StackIdeas software because your plate is full with payment plug-ins. At least for the foreseeable future. They all, like me, can then make the tough decision on where to purchase a shopping cart.
Unfortunately I know that integration is BIG on all our minds there so as good as the HikaShop is (and it seems like the best option) I am afraid that for EasySocial users it is not an option. We are going to have to go in a different direction and use somebody elses product. Since some other shopping carts are already building integration with EasySocial just like you apparently did previously with JomSocial.
Thank you for your reply,
Sean


I hope I was not too curt in my reply. But, I also hope he will reconsider. My guess is the EasySocial integration would be low hanging fruit for them and they should go after it!

Sean
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Friday, 12 September 2014 10:31
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Does anybody have an EasySocial site using Quick2Cart that we can all look at?

Also I noticed that jMarket is no longer in the JED. Any idea what is up with that?
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Friday, 12 September 2014 11:10
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On our latest big build we ended up with JomSocial ... sorry Mark - just more mature with more integrations - but also there were headaches !!!!

We WILL be doing some Quick2Cart social website development projects coming up (probably across JomSocial, EasySocial and CommunityBuilder) in coming months ... so will be interesting to see ho it pans out and what turns out best.

At this stage .... we can't see a viable alternative to Quick2Cart ... but until we start we know that either
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Friday, 12 September 2014 14:23
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No problem Max I guess it takes time for 3rd party to build integrations with EasySocial.
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Friday, 12 September 2014 14:48
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It is starting to look like Quick2Cart is currently the best option for eCommerce with EasySocial integration?
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Friday, 12 September 2014 19:58
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Hey guys, as a MijoShop lifetime subscriber, I would be love to be able to use my subscription on sites with EasySocial. Is there any news about a possible integration?
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Friday, 12 September 2014 20:26
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Hey Everyone..

We are doing a webinar on Quick2Cart and the EasySocial Integration will be a big part in it.. So i hope all of you can attend and get some hands on time with Quick2ACart !

Details here https://plus.google.com/events/chnjloj802lac2jsatp9c91mcd4
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Friday, 12 September 2014 22:26
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Thank you Parth,
I am looking forward to it.
Sean
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Saturday, 13 September 2014 00:15
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Thanks for sharing Parth
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Saturday, 13 September 2014 00:21
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You can use some more social login extensio for this case right?
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Friday, 06 February 2015 16:39
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Update:

EasySocial integration for jMarket multi-vendor is out now.

http://stackideas.com/apps/item/1699-jmarket-sell-your-products-the-social-way

It has the following functionality:

Auto posting of store activities into the wall - categories, products and vendors updates
My Items for EasySocial
Multi-language -product lists are automatically translated to the language of the user.
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Friday, 06 February 2015 17:54
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Hi Cheryl,

Thanks for sharing.
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Friday, 06 February 2015 18:49
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I just tried to use Hikashop and Ezsocial on the same test site : numerous conflicts in the user/login/authentication/registration area. Not only they are not integrated, but they can't coexist.

Then I found this thread. Does it still reflect the current situation ? Any examples of Jmarket/Ezsocial sites that could be visited ? And what about Quick2cart ?

Thanks for your replies

Paul
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Sunday, 28 June 2015 00:10
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Hello PaulK,

Hm, to be honest I have never tried this before. What issues do you have with Hikashop and EasySocial? If I recall correctly, Hikashop actually does integrate with EasySocial?
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Tuesday, 07 July 2015 17:11
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Hello Mark,

Thanks for your inquiry, I should have posted the end of my quest here. For further reference, I created a separate thread about "Endless redirection loops", since I guess that the problem might occur with other components than Hikashop.

With default settings of both components, redirection of com_user calls create infinite recursive loops, for example when an unregistered Hikashop user try to checkout his cart.

The setting which so far seems to work is to publish an hikashop plugin, which is not published by default, to block com_user redirections (Hikashop use joomla std by default, but extends it, in particular with address fields) and to set the toggle switch in EzSocial system plugin
about com_user redirections to "no". These settings effectively stop com_user calls bouncing back between both components.

Writing this reminded me that I have not specifically checked that user addresses modifications in one component are correctly reflected in the other. From the above I guess not, but I have to check.

And by the way, if I completely unpublish EzSocial login plugin, will EzSocial profile management continue to work, including customisations, in EzSocial ?

Regards,

Paul
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Tuesday, 07 July 2015 23:27
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Hello Paul,

Do you mean you disabled the "System - EasySocial" plugin? It's safe to disable that plugin if you do not want to enforce any redirections It doesn't affect the operation of the extension.
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Wednesday, 08 July 2015 01:04
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Hello guys, very interesting discussion

I am looking for a multi vendor extension too, What do you recommend us ?
Mijoshopt? Hikamarket? Quick2quart? Jmarket?

@Mark any suggestion for an extension compatible with ES?
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Sunday, 08 May 2016 22:16
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To be honest, I have never used any of the above but if I recall correctly, Hikashop is or already has integrations with EasySocial. Check with them
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Monday, 09 May 2016 00:03
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