Donate The Change to Charity - osCommerce
Written By Gary on Jul 11 2008 · Comments (0)

A new contribution which allows your buyer to "round up" his order to the next nearest whole dollar/euro/pound etc. So instead of paying say $96.32, they can "round up" to $97.00 - and you, the shop owner would then do whatever you want (donate to charity I'd assume!) with the extra 0.68.
Only tested on […]

Sponsor needed - Shipping Date in osCommerce
Written By Gary on Jul 10 2008 · Comments (0)

All - I recently made a shipping date modification for a client, you can see it in action on this video (You Tube).
It basically adds a shipping date for the customer to choose when their order should be delivered. The store owner can set any date range (eg, start 2 days from order date, […]

Orange and Grey button set
Written By Gary on Jun 13 2008 · Comments (0)

Spent some time cleaning out some old files from my computer and came across loads of old osCommerce bits and pieces of codes, projects, graphics and what-not.
Here's a button set that I vaguely recall making:

Any good to anyone?
Download the full zip file of these Grey/Orange buttons here.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a PSD […]

Next update to discount vouchers
Written By Gary on Jun 02 2008 · Comments (3)

At the moment I am working on a "date" function for the Discount Vouchers contribution. Basically when a coupon is set up, the store owner will be able to choose a start and end date for the coupon usage - so that if a Store has a promotion during (say) June, the coupon can […]

Shipping to US States, tiered + handling
Written By Gary on May 23 2008 · Comments (2)

A user on the osCommerce Forum required a way to charge $x for 1 item, $y for any other items and $z as a handling charge for Hawaii and Alaska. With a bit of lateral thinking, I came up with;
Club osCommerce USA Tiered Shipping
This contribution allows the Store owner to set a cost for: […]

Shipping Quote based on Per Cent of Total Order
Written By Gary on May 18 2008 · Comments (2)

In the past few days I noticed a couple of people wanting to charge postage based on a percentage of the total order amount.
I've not come across any pre-existing code that enables this in a correct way - I do know of a `hack` to the "products weight" field, but the problem with that is […]

Version 2 of Gift Vouchers and Discount Coupons (MS2, RC1, RC2)
Written By Gary on May 09 2008 · Comments (16)

I wanted to give an update on where the GV DC contribution presently stands.  It's been updated to Version 2.
Version 2 works with;

osCommerce MS2
osCommerce MS2 (060817)
osCommerce RC1
osCommerce RC2
osCommerce RC2a

Version 2 also deal with Tax properly, which was problematic with Version 1.x
Due to the number of problems that people had installing Version 1.x - I haver […]

Vouchers, Tax and Open Source
Written By Gary on May 07 2008 · Comments (3)

My discount contribution is a great success - it's been downloaded thousands of times and I've installed it on at least 20 live shops.  But it has/had a glaring ommission - TAX - and for a good reason…
However, people like to say things such as;
I was just wondering why the tax calculation has been left […]

Featured Products in osCommerce
Written By Gary on Apr 02 2008 · Comments (57)

One of the very finest things you can do to make your customers experience better is to point them at your special offers and featured products.
In standard osCommerce, the "New Products" box on the first page is pretty useless - it's just a list of the latest 9 products added. My idea is to […]

Discount Vouchers for MS2 + Installation Service
Written By Gary on Mar 04 2008 · Comments (27)

All, I just found enough time to test out an install of the DC GV Contribution for RC1 and RC2, but onto MS2-060817.  It installed very well, and so I can now say that if you FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS closely, you should be able to get your MS2 up and running with DC GV within less […]