Remote site transferring orders/payments to our site?

We have a customer that wants to build their own website & host their own products. Their customers place orders on their site and then all of the details are transferred to us to fufill.

Is that feasible? If so - how?

Transfered how? Email? directly update your system/database? Carrier Pidgeon?
What system do you have? What information do you need? Does your system have an API available? Do you have a window sill for the carrier pidgeons to land on?

I guess you are using Opencart? Please provide some more details!

If your system/database needs to be updated then that is not terribly difficult to do, but obviously it can't be done without an extension/develpment.

What about payment? How is that going to work? So basically you will be the dropshipper? (I have an extension for that - though it is manual, not automatic).

So many questions....

Nordikota wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:41 pm

We have a customer that wants to build their own website & host their own products. Their customers place orders on their site and then all of the details are transferred to us to fufill.

Is that feasible? If so - how?

The really simple way: simply add your email address to the list of admin emails that get order notifications.

A more reliable way - get a developer to build a sync script that puts the orders into your system. We could help with that.

Nordikota wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:41 pm

We have a customer that wants to build their own website & host their own products. Their customers place orders on their site and then all of the details are transferred to us to fufill.

Is that feasible? If so - how?

If your customer is using OpenCart, you just need to open an API endpoint on your side for them to make a POST request to when they receive a new order on OpenCart. And on their side, they will need to have a customised function to perform the POST request to your API endpoint whenever an order is placed.

Dunno where my reply went. Oh well

So if they also run OC, we can use API to connect the two together - right? If they choose something else, I guess it's a bigger problem?

Nordikota wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:14 am

Dunno where my reply went. Oh well

So if they also run OC, we can use API to connect the two together - right? If they choose something else, I guess it's a bigger problem?

I don't think it actually matters if they are using OpenCart or not - either way you will have to open up an API endpoint on your OpenCart website to receive POST requests from your customer when they receive a new order and they have to have a custom function on their website to make a POST request to your API endpoint whenever they get a new order placed on their site.

Alternatively, like what @paulfeakins said, you can also get them to set up an API endpoint that returns all orders that have not been fulfilled, and you can set up a cron job to run a script to pull the orders at a frequency of your choice, i.e. once per day. If their e-commerce platform already has available API endpoints that returns orders, then you can simply set up a script to pull the orders from them.

Either way, custom development probably needs to happen at both sides to facilitate the pulling/pushing of orders from their end to your end - it just depends how you want to implement it and the framework/platform/programming language shouldn't matter at all.

Nordikota wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:14 am

So if they also run OC, we can use API to connect the two together - right? If they choose something else, I guess it's a bigger problem?

Either way a developer can do this easily enough.

OK - thanks chaps. Let's see how serious they are about doing this!