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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

Overview of this book

The popularity of online shopping has increased drastically over the past few years. TYPO3 is fully equipped to meet all the challenges of modern electronic commerce. TYPO3 can be enlarged afrom a pure content-based online catalog to a fully-grown shop system with a variety of extensions. It may be easy to plan a website but when it comes to implementing the design and developing a successful e-commerce site, you might come across a lot of difficulties.This book teaches all the aspects of quickly setting up a feature-packed, easy-to-build e-commerce site—from basic installation and configuration of TYPO3 through adding features step-by-step to an example website. It demonstrates the setting up of an online TYPO3 e-commerce site from scratch and walks you through lucrative tips on attracting customers and maximizing profit.This book takes you through the creation of an appealing online shop in steps. It starts with the basics of TYPO3 and TYPO3 installation and shows how to use its standard features to begin construction of an online shop. It will help you improve the selling interface and handling of orders with new modules and other customizations. It discusses various template configurations and plugins. You will learn how to build attractive product catalogs, profiles for registered and unregistered users, and online shop SEO. You will also learn to provide effective search facilities for systematic navigation of your site. Further, various modules for payment and delivery will be discussed. Finally, you will learn how to manage and market your site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Discounts for user groups


You can use the following methods to provide discounts for loyal clients:

  • Using the discount field for each user. This option is available in the Discount field under the Extended table. You can set up discounts for each user individually.

  • Using the field price2. You can see an example below of this field being used for discounts:

    # ID of the FE user group [usergroup = 1]
    priceNoReseller = 2
    [global]
    
  • Using the calculation configured by TypoScript. You can see an example below of how to set up a discount for a product:

    pricecalc {
    10.type = count
    10.field = price
    # Product with with ID 16 will be with 20% discount
    10.where = uid = 16
    # Full price is 1, so we set the 80% of full price
    10.prod.1 = 0.8
    }
    
  • Also, you can set up the discount depending on the number of product items in the basket (1 product costs 4.99, 2 products cost 8.99, and so on.):

    pricecalc {
    10.type = count
    10.field = price
    10.sql.where =
    10.prod.1 = 4.99
    10.prod.2 = 8.99
    10.prod.5 = 19.99
    }
    

Using the...