commerce_project for Pinax...
bobhaugen
In http://groups.google.com/group/pinax-core-dev/msg/8d88ce31c489ee92
Harley Bussell wrote:
[in response to the question:]
>> I'm still very interested in how you end up using Pinax and Satchmo
>> features together. Or even your vague ideas on the subject.
> i haven't really done a lot of integrated apps beyond the
> group subscription products.
> It was pretty basic, a SubscriptionTribe model that extends
> SubscriptionProduct and has a Tribe. A few changes to a fork of the
> tribe views to hook in subscription logic and some changes to the
> tribe templates.
Don't understand. How does it work? The SubscriptionProduct has a
Tribe and the subscribers become Tribe members?
> It could be interesting to use the content bridge to mount a product
> browser under groups/projects etc. If the product browser used the
> django admin style class app, it could take construction parameters
> for selection criteria and display properties.
> You could then mount distinct product browsers into different groups.
So each group could have different products?
> Do you have any specific features you'd like to build into a social
> commerce system?
I did have, for the multi-CSA project I described previously in this
group. Unfortunately, the project fell apart (did not get funded).
But my ideas included each CSA being a group, offering their own
products (pretty much as you described).
And then members of the CSA could rate the products. CSA's deliver
baskets of food to their members each week during the season. Members
could then post feedback on the products: "I like beets" or "I hate
beets", etc. The CSA could then use that info to plan for next year.
And members could post recipes using the contents of the food
baskets. The CSA might offer specials for the best recipes, etc.
And behind the scenes, the CSA's could do side deals with each other,
which CSA farms do all the time. One I know produces vegetables and
offers fruit and meat from a neighbor farm, one of which is also a CSA
and offers vegetables from the first farm.
So there's a level where consumers are members of CSA's, and another
level where CSA's are members of the whole multi-CSA system.
This project might come back to life, maybe in a different disguise.
Harley Bussell
gave you access to groups.
So the custom SubscriptionTribe product has a group, when someone buys
a subscription to the product that allows them access to the group.
Sorry could you explain "CSA" and "multi-CSA"?
> So each group could have different products?
The product browser is more a way to display distinct sets of
products, mounted under different urls.
So you could have /specials show all products with a special price,
or /group1/products show all products under the category group 1.
The product browser takes different product filters in its constructor
to know what products to display.
In that example the connection between a group and the product is done
adding products to categories matching your groups.
The other way to do it would be to create a custom product which has a
group relation.
In your system do you need products to be available under multiple
groups, each with its own price?
Do you need any way to browse all products and categories outside of a
group context?
bobhaugen
> I was not trying to have group specific products, just products that
> gave you access to groups.
> So the custom SubscriptionTribe product has a group, when someone buys
> a subscription to the product that allows them access to the group.
Ok, got it.
> Sorry could you explain "CSA" and "multi-CSA"?
See http://groups.google.com/group/pinax-business/t/d317c208821ea193?hl=en
and http://groups.google.com/group/pinax-business/t/3d8ce77f1f72db3c?hl=en
which said that the project never happened.
> In your system do you need products to be available under multiple
> groups, each with its own price?
Don't know, since the project never got that far.
> Do you need any way to browse all products and categories outside of a
> group context?
I don't think so, but see above...
I am talking to another group-of-groups about another project which
might be pinax with ecommerce, so I might have another use case. But
in the meantime, I am just interested in what could be done with a
social commerce project.
For example, http://www.etsy.com/