I've been walking around pricetapestry.com quite a while. It's really a great script.
But I have a little concern before I place the order:
My situation is that I have six suppliers to do drop shipping for me. Some of their products are overlapped. I mark up 20% of the price they give me. I want to use Tapestry to integrate all the six data feed and then show ONLY the lowest price on my website. And customer can put that product into the shopping cart to check out from my own website instead of being redirected to other merchant's website.
Is it easy to do? Thanks a lot for any comment!
Wow... reply so quick, thanks for your clear answer David!
Unfortunenatly, I am a newbie of PHH and Mysql, so I don't think I can make it by myself in short time.
I want to subcontract this work to an expert. I think you are the best candidate. But I am not sure if you have interest or time to do this?
If you don't mind, could you send me an email at [snipped] to discuss more about the details.
Anyway, thanks for your great script! I like it!
Hi,
I've grabbed your email address and removed it from your post so it doesn't get indexed! Will be in touch...
Cheers,
David.
Hello zynemart,
Thank you for your interest in Price Tapestry. It does sound like you would need to make substantial modifications in order to achive what you want to do; so you will need to be reasonably proficient in PHP in order to do this.
Displaying only the cheapest product would involve changes to the way search results are displayed and how product information is shown on the product pages - in both cases the modification would be to display only the first (cheapest) product in the array. Alternatively; the SQL could be modified to select only the cheapest product.
With regards to placing products into a local shopping cart; I presume that this is already part of the functionality of your website and that you would need to construct an appropriate URL from data within your suppliers feeds.
Overall, I don't think that Price Tapestry is a solution in this instance but there may be some elements of it that you can make use of if you are comfortable with substantial PHP and SQL development.
Cheers,
David