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Currently reviewing cart solutions and have a few questions about functionality that i would like some feedback on.

Could someone indicate if any of the following functionality is supported -

1. Build a completely customized native app for ios/android but leverage and integrate with opencart. App would be solely for ordering.
a. Are there APIs for submitting orders, viewing orders status, viewing products, accessing notifications, view customer details, vendor location?

b. If there are no API can we add new customers|new orders|get/set notifications directly by inserts|updates etc to the database (is the data model well documented?)

2.
Is any geo functionality available such as google maps integration or location based services connecting vendor locations with current location? I.e. where am i, distance, travel time,

3.
Are there notifications available?

4.
Can you set expiry times|time limits on products?

5.
Does the cart reserve items or can it be configured to be based on first who pays wins?

6.
Is there a Rating system for Vendors?

7.
Is there invite|referral functionality?

8.
Is apple pay/google pay/samsung pay accepted? Or can we link in with payment gateways.

9.
Can vendors access camera within open cart such as via mobile?

10.
Is the interface responsive?

Thanks in advance and appreciate it.

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

1. Build a completely customized native app for ios/android but leverage and integrate with opencart. App would be solely for ordering.
a. Are there APIs for submitting orders, viewing orders status, viewing products, accessing notifications, view customer details, vendor location?
b. If there are no API can we add new customers|new orders|get/set notifications directly by inserts|updates etc to the database (is the data model well documented?)

There are a few app solutions that exist already:
https://mobikul.com/opencart-mobile-app/
http://opencartmobileapp.com/
http://www.webstylio.com/mobile/
https://www.exlcart.com/opencart-mobileapp.html

Some info about the API here:
https://webkul.com/blog/use-opencarts-rest-api/

You can add a new API with something like this:
https://opencart-api.com/

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

2. Is any geo functionality available such as google maps integration or location based services connecting vendor locations with current location? I.e. where am i, distance, travel time,

Question not clear, what exactly do you want it to do?

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

3. Are there notifications available?

What do you mean notifications? With the app?

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

4. Can you set expiry times|time limits on products?

Yes

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

5. Does the cart reserve items or can it be configured to be based on first who pays wins?

It's actually very difficult for any platform to make it work based on who pays first because it would need to notify someone who might be in PayPal or another payment gateway that actually someone else has completed a couple of seconds earlier.

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

6. Is there a Rating system for Vendors?

You mean vendors in a multi-vendor system like multimerch.com?

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

7. Is there invite|referral functionality?

You mean like affiliates?
https://www.antropy.co.uk/blog/how-to-s ... -opencart/

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

8. Is apple pay/google pay/samsung pay accepted? Or can we link in with payment gateways.

You can build your own gateways pretty easily but there are a wide range in the marketplace including those you mention I believe.

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

9. Can vendors access camera within open cart such as via mobile?

Well it's open source so if you can code it to do that then yes.

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

10. Is the interface responsive?

Yes.

adsie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:04 pm

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5.
Does the cart reserve items or can it be configured to be based on first who pays wins?
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Not sure whether this will fully satisfy your requirement, but if you set a product's stock quantity as 1,
Only a single customer can actually buy the product. The next customer will see a product out of stock message.