Hello,

I was wondering if I can use the Shopping Cart Creator and Website Access Manager on a WordPress site? This is a site that I am hosting on my own domain. I just prefer to use WordPress for the templates and plug ins.

Thanks!

Hiya Joanne,

Shopping Cart Creator is not something you integrate with other sites, it's actually a site all it's own. You can integrate it via the menu and do your best to create the theme so that it mimics your WP site or better yet create the shop and then theme your WP according to the shop, but they don't work together in any way. SCC is a separate entity all it's own and creates an entire website for you should you decide to use it for your extra pages outside the shop itself or you can link it via menus to get as good of a connection to your site as possible.

You cannot add menu items to the Shop menu other than adding pages themselves so the 2 menus (Shop and WP) may not be exact but it works out pretty well for the most part.

With WP I'm wondering why you would need WAM at all? WP has it's own access system built in already and many modules/apps/addons/plugins or whatever you want to call them for many things so I'm going to say it's just not needed. It's possible yes, but necessary, most likely not.

Hope that helps.

Thanks Jo Ann (great name by the way! ).

So if I'm understanding this correctly, if I use Shopping Cart Creator they will see the product and its description on the site I've built through WP.

They want it and click the "add to cart" button. At that point does it go to the separate Shopping Cart Creator page? If that is the case I could easily create a similar page to mimic the WP page.

What I like about CoffeeCup.com is that when I log in here and click "my account" I can see everything I have purchased (plus what I have not purchased) and download again if I need to.

I want to offer the same experience on the site I am creating.

Joanne

Hiya Joanne, and yes great name!

I think you are misunderstanding what I said above. The shopping cart creator program creates a full website of it's own. It does not integrate with Word Press or any other website system, it's a separate entity all it's own. What you can do is create your shop and upload it. Once you have your shop setup add a link to your shop on your WP website. When someone clicks the link to Shop or whatever you call your button, it will take them to the shop site you have setup. Most people create the shop in a subdirectory called shop so people could get to it easily by typing your domain with /shop on the end such as:

http://www.yourdomainnamehere.com/shop

You can then also setup the Home Page in the shop settings to go to your WP site so in a sense they kind of work together, but no, products do not show up anywhere other than the shop itself.... BUT

You can easily use images and links to your products on your WP site that can take them to a specific product in your shop so there are lots of ways to make the shop and WP sites play nice together. Just so you understand that they don't integrate at all.

Hope that explains it better.

As for the ability to have your customers be able to see their purchases, I hate to say it but it's not possible nor do I think it will be in the future. The reason for this is because the cart software does not have any information saved at all for your customers. All of that information is saved at your payment processing system (PayPal, Google Checkout, etc.) and nothing is gathered at all by the software. This being the case makes it impossible for you to include that on your site without having some type of integration with the payment processing sites which would be something you'd have to find there to see if it is possible.

There are no login systems built into the shopping cart at all, it's a straight out click and purchase. Yes it adds items to a cart, but it doesn't save that cart, or have any account type setups so it's a one shot buy it now type system. If you leave, it's gone and you have to redo the adding to the cart again (unless you are able to open a cached cart which I suppose could work at times too hehe).