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22nd September 2010 (1 year ago)
Hey guys, just want to let you all know that we have officially released MarketPress!
And the top secret feature:
Make More Money with Multisite and MarketPress Combined!
Selling your products online is the number one way to make money using WordPress. MarketPress does this expertly for a single user WordPress site. But it has also been built specifically to allow you to create a network of stores with Multisite (a marketplace!) which exponentially increases the profits you can be making with your site. Here are a few ways of doing just that:
* Allow stores for only Pro (supporter) blogs
* Allow only certain store themes for Pro blogs
* Allow certain gateways for Pro Blogs
* Use our advanced Adaptive Payments gateway - Take a predetermined percentage fee of all store sales on your network! Completely automated and invisible to store customers. You can also allow Pro blogs to opt out of this by using a different gateway.
Imagine running your own network of user stores similar to Etsy or Shopify and collecting a percentage from each! Open your Multisite network to an unlimited number of stores and generate income from each as they sell their own products. Users in your network will appreciate how easy it is to set up their own store - creating new products is as easy as writing a quick post!
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Hey guys, just want to let you all know that we have officially released MarketPress!
And the top secret feature:
Make More Money with Multisite and MarketPress Combined!
Selling your products online is the number one way to make money using WordPress. MarketPress does this expertly for a single user WordPress site. But it has also been built specifically to allow you to create a network of stores with Multisite (a marketplace!) which exponentially increases the profits you can be making with your site. Here are a few ways of doing just that:
* Allow stores for only Pro (supporter) blogs
* Allow only certain store themes for Pro blogs
* Allow certain gateways for Pro Blogs
* Use our advanced Adaptive Payments gateway - Take a predetermined percentage fee of all store sales on your network! Completely automated and invisible to store customers. You can also allow Pro blogs to opt out of this by using a different gateway.
Imagine running your own network of user stores similar to Etsy or Shopify and collecting a percentage from each! Open your Multisite network to an unlimited number of stores and generate income from each as they sell their own products. Users in your network will appreciate how easy it is to set up their own store - creating new products is as easy as writing a quick post!
I have recently paid for, downloaded and installed Marketpress and really love it. There are two features that it doesn't have at the moment which I consider quite crucial and was wondering if it is something that's in the pipeline for the not too distand future or something I could implement.
1. Image gallery for a product or at least multiple images so they can be shown at different angles/colours etc.
2. *VERY IMPORTANT* Optional extras/attributes. If I'm selling an item which is available in a multitude of colours I need my customers to be able to choose. Likewise I would also like to be able to offer different options on one product at additional prices. For example I may be selling a particular type of bed but it comes in 3 different sizes and also with or without drawers and with or without wheels. Essentially that's 12 different products but to list them as 12 different products in the store would result in a massive product listing that's long winded to navigate. This could also be used for delivery options i.e. Standard delivery - Free / Deliver and build £89 / Deliver, build and old items removed £109.
I look forward to any input and thankyou for what we have so far.
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25th September 2010 (1 year ago)
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Blame me for the domain :) I wanted something that would allow the demo to get some decent coverage on the SERPS for people searching for wordpress ecommerce solutions, y'know... hate to see effort go into making a great demo site and not get it picked up by goog :)
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26th September 2010 (1 year ago)
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I think it's a fair domain anyway. The folks at wp e-commerce recently switched over to "Get Shopped" which sorta sounds like the "Shopp" plugin don't ya think?
Anyway, there's only so many names available, as James said, that can get ya good SERP standings. :D
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*sigh* i was so excited about this being in it's final release.. but i just have the worst luck with this plugin.. so much that i had actually put this project on the back burner until it was in it's final release..
so.. i installed in /mu-plugins/.. added a test product and went thru all settings etc... then when i go to test walking thru the shopping cart and adding a product to purchase it seems to add it to the cart but then it says "out of stock" on the item. when i try to go to the product page it says nothing found. then when i empty my cart the product is back. i am using inventory and selected 10 items in stock so it shouldn't show out of stock after just one it added..
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do you think it is from the tables created by previous installs of MP or something?
i have done so many customizations to my set up i really don't want to have to wipe everything and do a clean install of everything.. can i just drop all the MP tables and it will recreate new ones? (if yes.. what are the names of the table prefixes?)
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and for the Error 404– File not Found i am getting on individual product pages.. yes i have already gone to the Store Settings -> Presentation page and hit Save to refresh them.
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i am using inventory and selected 10 items in stock so it shouldn't show out of stock after just one it added..
You're sure the stock is 10 and not 1? The behavior you described would be correct for a stock of 1. If so try changing it to something like 11, see if it does the same thing.
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You're sure the stock is 10 and not 1? The behavior you described would be correct for a stock of 1. If so try changing it to something like 11, see if it does the same thing.
ya i am sure. i tried it with all sorts of quanities.. 10, 5, 111 always same result if i was using inventory tracking. if i disable inventory on an item it behaves properly.
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29th September 2010 (1 year ago)
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Here are the plugins that use rewrites:
automessage.php
global-site-search.php
global-site-tags.php
Try removing each one at a time, and each time go to Store Settings->Presentation and save to refresh the rewrites. As I said the older version of automessage is most likely the culprit. The new beta should fix that.
Is there an easy HACK for a check box that is a "Call for Price" This would be an awesome option cause I want to add large products that require installation. :)
This would be a great feature to add in a later release.
This looks like a very promising solution. Having battled endlessly with the current wp-ecommerce plugin and waited endlessly for their new version it's great to see a lot more competition and innovation coming in this space!
One feature that MarketPress seems to lack that had recently been added to wp-ecommerce though is the ability to apply free shipping with a coupon code... and further, a feature request I had made to those guys was that you should be able to limit that, or any coupon for that matter, to particular shipping regions (as you may be ok with free domestic shipping but not international for example or may want to run promotions in certain sales regions only)...
It would be great to hear your thoughts on this and whether it's part of the current roadmap or could be added?
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29th September 2010 (1 year ago)
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Sounds a bit like an obscure option. I mean is could be done with a custom shipping module, but no plans for core. More popular I think is the ability to do free shipping for orders above a certain amount, like amazon.
Are there any plans to add manual payments as a payment option in the near future, ie. display bank details with a unique reference code, or would it be relatively simple to create a custom gateway plugin to do this? (It's been a while since I donned my wp programming gloves! lol)
Hello, I currently use Authorize.net on one of my sites. But i just spent a few hours messing with this plugin and I LOVE IT! Is there a way I can use my authorize.net with this plugin?
Every time I activate, I received an error in line 340 of marketplace, and my community is no longer working. I have to delete the plugins to make my website working again.
It seems it's broken. I tried multiple times, got the error in line 340. I don't understand how to make this work.
When I click on "STORE", and then I click on one of the categories like "Listing Services", when it displays the products for that category, the header doesn't say the category name; instead it says the title of whatever the first product in the list is.
So basically the page says:
Sorry, I just found another issue.
When in the wp-admin viewing products... If you use "quick edit" and make a change to the date, then that products price is reset back to zero.
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30th September 2010 (1 year ago)
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aaron.. sure it's: http://e s p y d.com/store/ without spaces of course.
and the other weird thing is i keep trying to add the widget to the sidebar and it keeps disappearing..? i drag it to the sidebar then go reload page and it isn't on the site.. i go back to the widgets page and it's not there any more.
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@aaron.. bug for stock levels?
also.. is grid style layouts still in the plan?
it would be great to have a product photo grid style layout shortcode for global products to use in pages and posts with the option to sort by price, popularity or random like the widget :)
@bdonaghy If you go to Store Settings -> Presentation and hit save it should recreate the base store page if you've deleted it. Though if it's in the trash you may have to recover it from there, as it still technically exists.
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Lifetime member! — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
huh aaron.... wp-ecommerce.... tss tss tss the name is already taken by wp ecommerce... this is not fair play ;)
french translate began will publish it asap (hard and long !)
and testing it ^^
And now it is finished.... dupplicate it for a nice centralized booking service
(diabolic laugh)
Member — 24th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
in test site the country list in checkout is only USA and Canada?
Lead Developer — 24th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
I'll add more. You can choose whatever countries you want to sell to on the admin side.
Member — 24th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Aaron,
Any time estimate on completing this feature: File downloads/digital product support??
Thanks,
Heather
Lead Developer — 24th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
It's halfway done, just a matter of getting to it. Probably a few weeks.
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 24th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Gotta admit I did a double take on the domain as well. Doesn;t surprise me though. How many wp-shortstats do we have floating around?
Member — 24th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Are the checkout pages able to be protected via SSL? I know there are issues with SSL on multisite. Any guidance would be appreciated.
Lead Developer — 24th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Some of the upcoming gateway plugins will have to force SSL, so yes the plugin will be designed to support it.
In multisite you need a wildcard ssl cert on a subdomain install, or use a subdir install.
Member — 25th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi,
I have recently paid for, downloaded and installed Marketpress and really love it. There are two features that it doesn't have at the moment which I consider quite crucial and was wondering if it is something that's in the pipeline for the not too distand future or something I could implement.
1. Image gallery for a product or at least multiple images so they can be shown at different angles/colours etc.
2. *VERY IMPORTANT* Optional extras/attributes. If I'm selling an item which is available in a multitude of colours I need my customers to be able to choose. Likewise I would also like to be able to offer different options on one product at additional prices. For example I may be selling a particular type of bed but it comes in 3 different sizes and also with or without drawers and with or without wheels. Essentially that's 12 different products but to list them as 12 different products in the store would result in a massive product listing that's long winded to navigate. This could also be used for delivery options i.e. Standard delivery - Free / Deliver and build £89 / Deliver, build and old items removed £109.
I look forward to any input and thankyou for what we have so far.
Daniel
Founder & CEO — 25th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Blame me for the domain :) I wanted something that would allow the demo to get some decent coverage on the SERPS for people searching for wordpress ecommerce solutions, y'know... hate to see effort go into making a great demo site and not get it picked up by goog :)
Sales & Support Lead — 26th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
I think it's a fair domain anyway. The folks at wp e-commerce recently switched over to "Get Shopped" which sorta sounds like the "Shopp" plugin don't ya think?
Anyway, there's only so many names available, as James said, that can get ya good SERP standings. :D
Sales & Support Lead — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@mobilityproducts4u.org
Welcome to WPMU DEV! :D
Your two ideas are definitely on our lists. I don't have an ETA though. Many features still on the roadmap so it'll be an exciting development period!
Thanks and again, welcome!
Lifetime Member — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
*sigh* i was so excited about this being in it's final release.. but i just have the worst luck with this plugin.. so much that i had actually put this project on the back burner until it was in it's final release..
so.. i installed in /mu-plugins/.. added a test product and went thru all settings etc... then when i go to test walking thru the shopping cart and adding a product to purchase it seems to add it to the cart but then it says "out of stock" on the item. when i try to go to the product page it says nothing found. then when i empty my cart the product is back. i am using inventory and selected 10 items in stock so it shouldn't show out of stock after just one it added..
Lifetime Member — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
do you think it is from the tables created by previous installs of MP or something?
i have done so many customizations to my set up i really don't want to have to wipe everything and do a clean install of everything.. can i just drop all the MP tables and it will recreate new ones? (if yes.. what are the names of the table prefixes?)
thanks :)
Lifetime Member — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
and for the Error 404– File not Found i am getting on individual product pages.. yes i have already gone to the Store Settings -> Presentation page and hit Save to refresh them.
Lifetime Member — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
has it been tested with multi-site and buddypress installed?
Lead Developer — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
You're sure the stock is 10 and not 1? The behavior you described would be correct for a stock of 1. If so try changing it to something like 11, see if it does the same thing.
Most likely some plugin is being naughty and flushing rewrites every page load and before the init hook. Someone said that they had an issue with the older version of automessage plugin:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/marketpress-rc-1#post-55639
Tell me what other plugins you have in mu-plugins as well.
Member — 28th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Is there a easy way for me to translate it?
Lead Developer — 28th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Yes, just like any other internationalized plugin. There is a default po file in the languages folder.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
Lifetime Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
ya i am sure. i tried it with all sorts of quanities.. 10, 5, 111 always same result if i was using inventory tracking. if i disable inventory on an item it behaves properly.
i am using automessage... what issue were they having?
here is all that i have in mu-plugins:
admin-menu-editor
custom-login
marketpress-includes
sitewidetextincludes
admin-ads.php
admin-footer-text.php
admin-help-content.php
admin-menu-editor-mu.php
automessage.php
avatar-comments.php
avatar-posts.php
avatars.php
bp-global-adminbar-css.php
custom-login.php
default-theme.php
global-site-search.php
global-site-tags.php
google-analytics.php
mailchimp.php
marketpress.php
post-indexer.php
remove-browse-happy.php
remove-permalinks-menu-item.php
remove-wp-dashboard-widgets.php
signup-tos.php
site-wide-text-change.php
update-notifications.php
widget-avatar.php
widget-blogs.php
widget-global-site-tags.php
widget-recent-global-posts.php
wp-signup-location.php
thanks :)
gina
Lifetime Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
if i try to uninstall automessage and then go to the store and click on products it says "nothing found"..
Lead Developer — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Here are the plugins that use rewrites:
automessage.php
global-site-search.php
global-site-tags.php
Try removing each one at a time, and each time go to Store Settings->Presentation and save to refresh the rewrites. As I said the older version of automessage is most likely the culprit. The new beta should fix that.
Lifetime Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
removing those three worked for the products and categories and 404 errors.. thanks!
but still have the "out of stock" issue..
Lead Developer — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Do you have a link that I can test out your stock stuff?
Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Is there an easy HACK for a check box that is a "Call for Price" This would be an awesome option cause I want to add large products that require installation. :)
This would be a great feature to add in a later release.
LOVE IT btw...
Lead Developer — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Welcome to WPMU DEV! I wouldn't say an easy hack, you would need to put it in the meta box code and save it in the meta save function.
Alternatively if all your products are that way you could do a simple edit to the mp_product_price() function to only print your text.
Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi Aaron
This looks like a very promising solution. Having battled endlessly with the current wp-ecommerce plugin and waited endlessly for their new version it's great to see a lot more competition and innovation coming in this space!
One feature that MarketPress seems to lack that had recently been added to wp-ecommerce though is the ability to apply free shipping with a coupon code... and further, a feature request I had made to those guys was that you should be able to limit that, or any coupon for that matter, to particular shipping regions (as you may be ok with free domestic shipping but not international for example or may want to run promotions in certain sales regions only)...
It would be great to hear your thoughts on this and whether it's part of the current roadmap or could be added?
Lead Developer — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Sounds a bit like an obscure option. I mean is could be done with a custom shipping module, but no plans for core. More popular I think is the ability to do free shipping for orders above a certain amount, like amazon.
Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Don't know if I'd agree that the "free shipping" coupon code idea is obscure... perhaps the "by region" part though... still think it has merit ;-)
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Sorry another quick question:
Are there any plans to add manual payments as a payment option in the near future, ie. display bank details with a unique reference code, or would it be relatively simple to create a custom gateway plugin to do this? (It's been a while since I donned my wp programming gloves! lol)
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hello, I currently use Authorize.net on one of my sites. But i just spent a few hours messing with this plugin and I LOVE IT! Is there a way I can use my authorize.net with this plugin?
Sales & Support Lead — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya Qwerty,
We have several gateways planned for the near future. I'm pretty sure Authorize.net is among them.
Thanks! :D
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Every time I activate, I received an error in line 340 of marketplace, and my community is no longer working. I have to delete the plugins to make my website working again.
It seems it's broken. I tried multiple times, got the error in line 340. I don't understand how to make this work.
Please help .....
Founder & CEO — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi Kingnet,
Sorry to hear about the bother.
Can I ask where it is installed and check that you've followed the installation instructions to the letter:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/e-commerce/installation/
Also please can you let us know the exact error you are getting.
Cheers, James
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Ok thanks.
well here's one thing I noticed:
When I click on "STORE", and then I click on one of the categories like "Listing Services", when it displays the products for that category, the header doesn't say the category name; instead it says the title of whatever the first product in the list is.
So basically the page says:
PRODUCT 1
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
*** instead of ****
CATEGORY
product 1
product 2
product 3
Lead Developer — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
We can't solve your problem without you pasting the exact error message. Please check your log.
I am aware of that bug and working on it. Thanks.
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Sorry, I just found another issue.
When in the wp-admin viewing products... If you use "quick edit" and make a change to the date, then that products price is reset back to zero.
Lifetime Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
aaron.. sure it's: http://e s p y d.com/store/ without spaces of course.
and the other weird thing is i keep trying to add the widget to the sidebar and it keeps disappearing..? i drag it to the sidebar then go reload page and it isn't on the site.. i go back to the widgets page and it's not there any more.
thanks,
gina
Lifetime Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
now the shopping cart widget shows up.. weird..
Lifetime Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
curious.. how will the BuddyPress profile integration work?
also do you have an ETA on fedex/ups/usps add-on?
will shipping have the option to be calculated by weight?
also.. is there a way to remove this option?
External Link:
When set this overrides the purchase button with a link to this URL.
thanks,
g
Lead Developer — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@gina thanks, found that bug.
Lifetime Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@aaron.. bug for stock levels?
also.. is grid style layouts still in the plan?
it would be great to have a product photo grid style layout shortcode for global products to use in pages and posts with the option to sort by price, popularity or random like the widget :)
thanks aaron!
Member — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
How to clean up and install again, like fresh, this plugin.
I have missing main store page and cannot setup correctly store
Lead Developer — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@bdonaghy If you go to Store Settings -> Presentation and hit save it should recreate the base store page if you've deleted it. Though if it's in the trash you may have to recover it from there, as it still technically exists.
Lifetime Member — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
any idea what is causing the stock level issues?
Lead Developer — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Yes, about to upload the fix for that and all other issues.
Lead Developer — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Let's continue here
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/marketpress-102
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