pcommerce.core 1.0b4

eCommerce for Plone

Introduction

PCommerce (Plone commerce) provides a simple shop system which supports:

• product variations

• multiple prices per product to support special prices per user or group (over the sharing tab) and prices only available for a specific time (by using the expiration date)

• multiple pluggable payment methods

• multiple pluggable shipment methods

• multiple taxes by zone

• pre and post tax charges per payment and shipment method

• component based checkout to easily customize the checkout process

• multiple currencies by using Products.CurrencyUtility

Pluggable Payment Methods

A payment plugin consists of a named adapter implementing pcommerce.core.interfaces.IPaymentMethod and named by the id (usually the package name) of the method and one or more views injecting data into the checkout process. The views are registered for the payment method and have to implement pcommerce.core.interfaces.IPaymentView. The name of the view corresponds to the name of the component where the data has to be injected (e.g. payment, confirmation, overview etc.).

As an example of a simple payment plugin pcommerce.payment.invoice is available, which simply collects a billing address and injects it into the confirmation and order email.

Pluggable Shipment Methods

A shipment plugin works much like a payment plugin, the only differences are the interfaces to be implemented by the adapter and the corresponding views, which there are pcommerce.core.interfaces.IShipmentMethod respectively pcommerce.core.interfaces.IShipmentView.

As an example pcommerce.shipment.parcel is available, which collects a delivery address and injects it into the confirmation and order email.

Optional dependencies

Products.CurrencyUtility - to add support for multiple currencies

ImageTag_CorePatch - to add support for dynamic image scaling [http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/ImageTag_CorePatch/0.3/ImageTag_CorePatch.tgz]

Changelog

1.0b4 (2010-12-20)

• bugfix in BaseComponent (only show available shipment methods by using the ShipmentRegistry)

• added process method to the order registry

• added new adapter which defines the components which have to be processed in order to make an order definite

• added new zope3 events

• cleaned up translations

1.0b3 (2010-11-29)

• remove assignment in portlets.xml

1.0b2 (2010-11-29)

• fix javascript getprice.js.

1.0b1 (2010-10-20)

plone 4 compatibility

• remove PTS utility

• fix javascripts under query 1.4.2

• browser view need a index attribute instead the call method

• remove actionsicons because is no more supported in plone 4

• fix access of user-order

0.5a3

• CSS and HTML Bugfix in buy viewlet

0.5a2

• Fixed payment and shipmentdata class and added migration method to fix existing orders

• Fixed cartInfo macro

0.5a1

• Added pluggable shipment methods

• Added pre and post tax charges

• Added selection of available shipment methods per product

• Rewrote the whole architecture (Not backward compatible)

• First alpha release containing internal developments

0.3 - Alpha release

• Removed setupHandler which rebuilded the catalog and slowed down (re)install

• Fixed version in metadata.xml

0.2 - Alpha release

• Removed profile dependency to Products.CurrencyUtility

0.1 - Alpha release

• Initial release