Opinion: Shopify Community - Developers

Caroline Schnapp commented on who's server does an app run from?

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:20 +0000

Yes, you have to have your own server.

If you develop your app using Ruby on Rails, you can deploy your app on heroku for free: http://heroku.com/pricing#blossom-1.

who's server does an app run from? by Shopifeye

Shopifeye — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:12:05 +0000

Silly question, but to make an app you have to have your own server correct?

The most you can do w/o an app is using your template markup correct?

nickel commented on Shopify App Tutorial

nickel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:19:09 +0000

Hi,

Is this point possible?

Showing how to store credentials to allow running the app without the shop owner actively logged-in (this is really just a matter of grabbing what the LoginController sets up in the session and sticking it in a database)

I'm really interesting on this.

Thx!

jmorrin commented on Get products by vendor?

jmorrin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:19:37 +0000

DOH! Typo.. OMG

Thanks :)

Caroline Schnapp commented on Get products by vendor?

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:14:09 +0000

parmas?

You mean params.

Get products by vendor? by jmorrin

jmorrin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:34:12 +0000

I am trying to use the api to get products by vendor and it doesnt seem to be working. I keep getting all the products.

I am trying this:

ShopifyAPI::Product.find(:all, :parmas => {:vendor => "SomeVendor"})

and I keep getting a complete list of products. Not just the products for this vendor.

Reid Young commented on Combo Pack Functionality?

Reid Young — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:55:22 +0000

Very cool Jesse -- that makes perfect sense, I'll talk with my developer about it. Thank you!

HunkyBill commented on Liquid Variables in Java Script

HunkyBill — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:18:13 +0000

@Mihir,

I have no idea what you're trying, but the easy answer is yes. All my custom hacks involve this pattern. Inside a Liquid loop, say for product in products I then dump a little javascript that copies all the item properties to an array. This allows me to add client-side behaviours using data from Liquid. You can make up tons of little ditties with this pattern. It is one way to make Shopify sites with pizazz. Of course, limiting yourself to Liquid is safer, but it has it's obvious limits, hence the existence of the Javascript API. Good luck with your scripting...

Jamie commented on Shopify sync with multiple ebay accounts?

Jamie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:47:49 +0000

Hey Raymond,

While I think this may be possible via the EBAY API, this would involve a pretty complicated custom application creation. There is a lot involved here. Are you submitting as an auction? to a store? If an auction how long is the auction? Buy it now? Start price etc etc etc. So the answer is probably a yes, but it would take significant resources in my humble opinion to pull the app off.

Shopify sync with multiple ebay accounts? by DiecastBase

DiecastBase — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:05:39 +0000

multi-channel selling is it available via shopify account? like vendio, channeladvisor...

furthermore, is it possible? just add new item in shopify account, then automatically add new listing of same item to my ebay.com account and possiblely other ebay accounts on (ebay.co.uk, ebay.de, ...)

then, if the final qty of an item sold on either site, all listing of the same products on different site will be automatically ended.

Jesse Storimer commented on So how would I set up?.....

Jesse Storimer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:46:30 +0000

Vince,

By default, Shopify's products are not flexible enough to handle this exact kind of setup, but you should be able to get something that works. Here is one possible way to set up your products:

* One Product that includes the charges (#1 above) for a cell phone, (#3 above) for flat fee and (#4 above) for the activation fee. It could have variants for each cell phone thats available.

* Each of the twelve related features would have to be products of their own and you would have to trust that your customers wouldn't buy those without buying a phone. Or if you are using authorization and capture, don't capture orders for features if they don't also have a phone.

* Their would also need to be a product that didn't include a cell phone, just the flat fee and activation (for #5 above). You would need to ask the customer for their phone id number or some kind of unique identifier. http://wiki.shopify.com/Ask_customer_for_additional_information

* The last product would be the renewal of another year's service. Once again you would need to ask the customer for their unique phone id number.

Hope that helps

Liquid Variables in Java Script by Mihir

Mihir — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:02:23 +0000

Is it possibel to use the Liquid variables in java script to set the values?

some thing like this

{% assign count = 0 %}

< input = button" onclick =" setCount()")
{if count > 1} { do something

}

< script type=javascript>
{ count = 5

}

thanks for the help

Jesse Storimer commented on Rails Shopify API & Plugin Validation Errors

Jesse Storimer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:56:40 +0000

Steve,

That doesn't sound right. Send me an email with the name of your Shopify partner account and I can have a closer look for you.

Jesse Storimer commented on Combo Pack Functionality?

Jesse Storimer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:52:51 +0000

Reid,

I think this would be possible with an app. Not sure if you are looking for a technical answer or not, but here is one way that it could be accomplished.

Create each combo pack as a separate product with its own product page, and set its quantity to be the minimum of its two parts (eg. if a hat has 5 in stock and the shirt has 3, this combo's inventory would be 3).

Then you could set up a web hook to notify a Shopify app whenever an order is made (http://wiki.shopify.com/WebHook). If the order was for this combo pack product, you could decrease the inventory from both the hat and shirt using the API, without any manual work.

It's not an ideal solution but technically it should work.

Jamie commented on Theme settings and Vision ?

Jamie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:43:03 +0000

Vision has not been updated to handle theme settings yet. So no, it's not you, it's vision.

Theme settings and Vision ? by Ghismo

Ghismo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:59:07 +0000

I was wondering if the settings (http://wiki.shopify.com/Theme_Settings) were available under Vision (4.1.0).

It looks like the settings are not valued, and the .css.liquid files don't get interpreted either.

Is it a problem in my code or with Vision ?

It would be nice to be able to submit the setting form under vision so that we can try our themes locally with different settings.

srini commented on How to add fields in 'checkout' page?

srini — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:41:17 +0000

I want to integrate Shopify with Svea WebPay, which supports 'Pay by Invoice'. It seems this requires that I integrate this gateway into Active Merchant.

Could someone please let me know how Shopify's front-end form maps to the Active Merchant fields i.e., WebPay requires a 'Personal number' rather than credit card details.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Srini

Combo Pack Functionality? by Reid Young

Reid Young — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:26:57 +0000

I'm looking for a better way to sell "combo packs" of products from my store. Our current method (creating an independent product page) wreaks absolute havoc on our inventory system -- unless we update each item's inventory by hand every time we sell a combo pack, it's impossible to know how many individual products we actually have in stock.

It seems like the most straightforward solution would be to create a 'pseudo product' which automatically deducts inventory from its respective parts. For example, if you buy a hat+shirt combo, the qty of both hats and shirts decreases by one.

Is this the kind of problem which could be solved with an app? I'm not sure what kind of constraints Shopify's API imposes.

Thanks!

So how would I set up?..... by Wince

Wince — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:08:38 +0000

To keep things uncomplicated, let's say I run my own cellular network and we offer 6 models of cellular telephones. The customer would from our site:
1) Select their cell phone ($100 to $300)
2) Choose a variety of 12 airtime-related features such as voice-mail, call forward, call waiting etc (each feature at $10)
3) Pay a mandatory flat pay-in-advance annual fee of $100 for airtime (unlimited use)
4) Pay a one-time activation/set-up of $37
5) Also, if the customer bought our cell phone from a retailer, we still need them to come here and buy their airtime, set-up and features from this site
6) Lastly, after 12 months, the customer has to come back to our site to buy another year's worth (less set-up cost)

We have our own website, we only really need this specific issue resolved and to make it transparent to our customers.
I am NOT programming savvy .... we do have a couple of developers that are.

We wish to go the Shopify way as we don't wish to at this point have our own shopping cart system developed. Our developers have lots of other back-end network related work, we only wish to have an easy purchase process for our customers .... and have the information be imported into our database so we can actually turn these units on and ship them out

Thanks for reading this long shout-out.
Vince

Edward Ocampo-Gooding commented on Hidden Product?

Edward Ocampo-Gooding — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:23:02 +0000

Hi jmorrin,

Yes, if the published_at is empty, then the product is hidden.