OpenCart 1.6.0 Roadmap

Xsecrets wrote:

madimar wrote:

onlinemarketer wrote:We normally use 'another' cart and after implementing this one step checkout:

http://www.onestepcheckout.com/skin/fro ... -large.png

It has more than quadrupled our sales!

It would me amazing if OpenCart had such a layout right out of the box

Another thing thats increase our sales is a PayPal button on the shopping cart page so that the customers does not have to enter any personal details at all on the site and it takes them straight to paypal to complete the payment.

At the moment we are running a few carts on opencart and I think this is the only thing hindering sales.

+1 for onestepscheckout !!! Really nice and maybe it is not so complex to be realized. Why not include it?

I am working on it as a third party module right now, and I can assure you it is so complex to be realized. Don't know why everyone thinks this is something you can bang out in an hour.

Would be so nice to have a checkout look nearly the same as the one above. How is your progress going on it?

CanadaPleco wrote: Would be so nice to have a checkout look nearly the same as the one above. How is your progress going on it?

I have been pulled away from it by a ton of different things, but I am getting back on it now, but it is very complicated, so it's certainly not anything I'll finish in a matter of hours or even days, probably weeks.

I'd like to request a rework of the discount system.

For me I'd like to have not only discounts at a product level but also group discounts for customer groups at a site level, cart discounts for sales price (e.g. 5% off if you spend £50, etc).

Really, in an idealistic world there would be a fully functional discount system allowing you to set discounts on any variable at any level and in any number of combinations.

As an example, I take 10% off the RRP of all my products (where I receive a 10% bulk discount), this could be achieved by having an RRP field and a sales price field per product and output it's display in the customer expected Amazon style:
R.R.P: £29.99
Price: £26.99
You save: £3.00 (10%)

A percentage discount on the RRP wouldn't always give the price I actually want to sell at, so a flat price here with autocalculated figures for display would be better, however I'm willing to accept greater experience here.

Continuing the example, I want to give some local customers a free shipping option, so that I can deliver in person. Currently I am doing this with a discount code giving them free shipping. I would rather they get the option at checkout automatically based on their group as well as the possibility of a set bonus discount of 2.5% of their order.
On top of that I would like to offer a tiered percentage discount based on the value of the products being bought at checkout, 5% for £50, 7.5% for £100 and 10% for £200. With again the option for free shipping on a £200 sale.

Some of this I can do by fiddling with coupons, but I think I'm not the only one who would like to see at least some of these improvements being addressed with the discount system; hell you might even come up with a better way of doing it that would provide me with even more options to keep up with/beat my competition (who all seem to be able to do these things with their e-commerce sites I might add).

I should also add that I'm still using 1.4.9.6, I've had a look at and a play with 1.5.0 but it didn't offer me enough (at the time of looking at it) to warrant an upgrade. A revised discount system along with the already implemented reward points would however give me that incentive to upgrade.

When we can expect to have search engine embedded like SOLR and other features like Notify Me When Available?

surender.goyat wrote:When we can expect to have search engine embedded like SOLR and other features like Notify Me When Available?

I doubt you'll ever be able to expect either one of these because you can pretty much count on SOLR not being installed by default on any hosting account, and the notifications require cron scripts, and I think dealing with the nightmare of teaching people about cron should be left to a third party extension.

Does Daniel even read this thread anymore? Might be pointless posting here, since he's not replying or commenting.

UPLOAD via CSV for all languages
RSS FEED LATEST PRODUCT

this tool is ultimate that i want

All or x number of products in a category as a module which can be displayed like the best sellers or featured modules.

Also a custom product module where you can select any product and display like above.

The ability to change the heading of the module too.

Admin optional store level to set user to be taken to shopping cart page when adding a product.

Or a Paypal express button next to each product to checkout immediately with Paypal without even going to the cart page!

Obviously needs to be optional as it wont be viable in configurations where shipping and tax etc needs separate calculation.

Xsecrets wrote: I have been pulled away from it by a ton of different things, but I am getting back on it now, but it is very complicated, so it's certainly not anything I'll finish in a matter of hours or even days, probably weeks.

Hi Xsecrets,
Would be great if you can pull this off and supply as an extension. Looking forward to it. Just a question out of curiosity, when we already have single page checkout in OC, can't we change template of that to make it appear something like this? All the best with this and we hope to see it in action on OC very soon.
Thanks,
Atul

atulagarwal56 wrote:

Xsecrets wrote: I have been pulled away from it by a ton of different things, but I am getting back on it now, but it is very complicated, so it's certainly not anything I'll finish in a matter of hours or even days, probably weeks.

Hi Xsecrets,
Would be great if you can pull this off and supply as an extension. Looking forward to it. Just a question out of curiosity, when we already have single page checkout in OC, can't we change template of that to make it appear something like this? All the best with this and we hope to see it in action on OC very soon.
Thanks,
Atul

No many people even good devs seem to think that, and have said as much on the forums, but they have obviously not tried it. In order to pull off something where you don't have a continue button at each stage you have to recode alot of stuff.

its a ton of work to re-code the checkout indeed! I'm no programmer and I know that much

CanadaPleco wrote:its a ton of work to re-code the checkout indeed! I'm no programmer and I know that much

The biggest problem is that it's even more difficult that I thought it would be. Some of the design decisions in the way opencart works are causing huge headaches.

+1 Fedex, USPS, maybe even DHL

A way to customize the emails that will be send to the customers (eg: new user registration, order confirmation, password lost, etc). This way could be trhu an editor in admin, where you could edit each mail template in visual and intuitive way, and where you could insert some variables (like name, order Nº, etc).

This was treated in this topic http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=41647

Option for invoice to be changed to tax invoice for Australia/NZ market.
http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 83#p200883

Put this in Bugs, but will also post in here. Maybe devs will find that useful and won't be too harsh because it's in feature request topic

ONE BANNER/SLIDESHOW - ONE LANGUAGE
You should be able to have a different set of images for each language of your site.

(Currently you have a single set of images which is displayed on every language you have installed. There's no point showing English adds for German speakers or vice versa.)

Same comes for currencies. If customer prefers paying in GBP, there's no point to show prices in Euro.

Couple of suggests/requests

1) Cloud based server use for downloads (Amazon S3/CloudFront, Rackspace et-al)
2) Paypal's "Adaptive Payment" system (allows payments to be split between more than one receiver)
3) Shift or provide option for file downloads to be hosting at server root (instead of inside 'public' folder)

I live in a state where there are multiple tax rates (depending on your county). I live in South Carolina and depending on where you are you can pay as much as 10% (6% state tax + 4% local)sales tax. Right now if I ship to a user in SC the rate is 7% because most of the counties only have 1% local tax. I just wish I didn't have to "eat" the cost when someone purchases from a county that is more than 7%.

FYI.. Magento Cart has this option.

mylasbags wrote: FYI.. Magento Cart has this option.

how do they manage it? I can't think of a way that wouldn't take two or three days to configure, and there's no need to make majority of users that don't need this to go through that pain of setting it up.