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Hi every:
I'm just answering if somebody here uses OC as Book Store and if "yes" what did she/he do in order to achieve this. I need to build a Book Store but the book concept is not equal than product concept because one book can have a lot of things like ISBN, collection and so on and products doesn't. Any help on this?

Cheers and thanks in advance

may be you can use extension "update opencart to book store" from arfah.

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... &order=ASC

Alas, ALL carts are seriously underwhelming for booksellers. The assumption seems to be that the product description field is all you need for searching. I got Cubecart 3 up and running with extra product fields and ability to search by ISBN, Title or Author from the search box for about $210-230 AUD (including CC3 Licence). Unfortunately that project seems to be going off the rails lately with version 5 in the never never. Drupal and Ubercart looks like a good solution but it's all too difficult to theme and manoeuvre for a cut-and-paste monkey like myself. Having said that the American Booksellers' Association is developing an ebook ecommerce service based on Drupal. So that project may be worth watching.
Arfah's mod adds extra fields but doesn't seem to have that critical search feature (i couldn't search bi ISBN from the search box) and has a few personal field names I would change; such as manuafacturer to publisher. I'd make sure you had those field names modified before you installed the mod. Again, the search feature is a let down if you have thousands of titles.
I've struggled adding extra fields myself in Opencart so I've just purchased Spot on Solutions "Extra Product Fields" mods. It's easy to install (took me about 30-40 minutes) and worked flawlessly first time. I just have to figure out how I can import a few thousand titles into the new structure and add the new fields to the default theme. I suspect I'll have to get someone to do this (but I'm in no rush at the moment). I'm sort of budgetting for about $250-350 for some extensions and coding to add both extra fields and a more comprehensive search function later in the new year when finances allow. It's just the price you have to pay to do business the way you want - I believe. And Opencart seems to have a very promising future.
Hope this helps.

P.S. here is what I acheived through the Cubecart mods and what I hope to replicate with Opencart.

reynierpm wrote
Hi every:
I'm just answering if somebody here uses OC as Book Store and if "yes" what did she/he do in order to achieve this. I need to build a Book Store but the book concept is not equal than product concept because one book can have a lot of things like ISBN, collection and so on and products doesn't. Any help on this?

You only add extra field for product attribute such as ISBN (10 and 13), date of publication, page, binding book, size (if your book is ebook), edition, language in admin product form.
You must modification advanced search in order to search by author, ISBN and keyword.
You must display product attribute in front end product page.
That's all.

can any one give me a detailed step by step process to change the OC to Bookstore on V 1.5.1.3

You need to contact arfah, the developer of that paid extension, and ask him if he has any plans to port his extension to version 1.5.

nosecret wrote:

reynierpm wrote
Hi every:
I'm just answering if somebody here uses OC as Book Store and if "yes" what did she/he do in order to achieve this. I need to build a Book Store but the book concept is not equal than product concept because one book can have a lot of things like ISBN, collection and so on and products doesn't. Any help on this?

You only add extra field for product attribute such as ISBN (10 and 13), date of publication, page, binding book, size (if your book is ebook), edition, language in admin product form.
You must modification advanced search in order to search by author, ISBN and keyword.
You must display product attribute in front end product page.
That's all.

product page.JPG

How did you do that?