Jonathan

Did you ever get this solved (hopefully through our Help Desk team)?

USPS is up-to-date. The only other idea is to make sure you are using a packing setting that includes dimensions. In the WP Admin navigate to Shopp → Setup → Shipping and then in the sub menus choose Settings.

Under thePackaging setting, try using All together as the packaging method (which will make sure dimensions are used.

A recent update of the shipping systems will use that provider’s package minimums if no dimensions are provided so at least you will get some rates. The most accurate rates will be quoted when you provide all of the info though.

Hope that helps.

Full disclosure: I am the project lead on Shopp (e-commerce plugin for WordPress), so I may be biased, however, Shopp will certainly handle this scenario.

It has a search, can display products in different types of category-like collections, and has separate product pages. It also has a setting to disable the shopping cart/checkout functionality.

It’s template based as well, so you can fully customize the layout of the products to include as much or as little information as you want on the product page and the product lists.

I’m sure other systems can do something similar (like JigoShop or WooCommerce), but I know for sure Shopp can handle this.

Login with your shopplugin.net account on the Shopp support site: https://shopplugin.net/support/ and open a ticket with the support team. They’re pretty responsive. Right now it’s showing same-day support.

There are a lot of options for e-commerce on WordPress. You can search the plugin directory here on the WordPress site: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/search.php?q=ecommerce

Not listed there, but also popular is Shopp (shopplugin.net). Full disclosure: I’m the project lead on Shopp, so my opinions will be biased. ??

Shopp is a commercial plugin for WordPress (full disclosure: I’m the project lead) and it has an add-on that integrates it with Intuit Merchant Services for payment processing. You can find it on the Shopp website at shopplugin.net.

To answer your original question, a lot of websites (WordPress websites included) use PayPal. The term “most” is probably a bit too strong. There are many, many payment processing solutions out there, so there is quite a distribution of which ones are used. PayPal is definitely a very popular solution because in many ways it has a low barrier to entry to get started.

You can use Shopp for that. Even though it is a plugin with all the bells and whistles, it has a setting to just turn off the shopping cart/checkout/shipping/taxes, etc. Then you can use it as just a catalog. The beauty of it is… if you ever decide to start selling you’re own products later, you can just turn the shopping cart part on and setup your payment processor, etc.

In terms of the travel links, you’d probably need to customize the templates a bit so they will show the link where you want them. In Shopp at least you’d probably want to use product specs/details to store the link. Then you’d want some template code to look for that spec/detail and render it as a link/button or whatever.

ahh right on. Not sure if Tyson is listening, but he’s the developer for this one. I’ve not seen him around for awhile.

without looking at the code for the Shopp Cache Helper plugin I couldn’t say. My best guidance though is that neither of these necessarily indicate broken functionality. 40/41 bytes of serialized data doesn’t amount to much, and the cart tag initialized in correctly may just mean an early test for something in the cart (like whether the cart is empty or not). It may or may not cause broken functionality though. The messages you cited are notices which are usually programmer notes to say “hey, you might want to take a look at this before it becomes a problem” and not a “the sky is falling, drop everything you are doing and fix this now” message.

https://shopplugin.net/api/is_thanks_page/

bogdanch, regarding receipt.php, the only thing that I can suggest would be the usual suspects, you may not be editing the correct receipt.php. It depends on if you have custom templates set up rather than using the starter templates in Shopp.

If they are setup, then you want to edit the receipt.php in your active theme under shopp/receipt.php

If you don’t have custom templates set up, you should make sure you do that because editing the starter templates is not recommended.

That would point to missing dimension information in your products. Meaning you haven’t supplied width for a product that is being ordered internationally. USPS does not have domestic dimension requirements, but the new API does require dimensions for International shipping.

The best fix at this time is to fill out the dimensions for all of your products in your catalog.

The first error is occuring because the Shopp Cache Helper plugin is calling a shopp(‘cart’) tag before the Cart has been booted up in Shopp. That would be a sequencing problem in Shopp Cache Helper.

The unserialize error is because the data in the database, when pulled out, has an extra character in a very string that must before formatted in a very specific way. The extra character is breaking the formatting making unserialization impossible. There isn’t any good way to know why it is happening without debugging it (watching the data that goes in to the database, comparing it to how it is when it comes out.)

More than likely it’s an issue with how your payment processing is setup. E-commerce solutions for WordPress rely on transaction processing workflows defined by the payment processor. So in the case of a solution like PayPal Standard, the default setup is to leave the site and finish the transaction at PayPal. That means the customer never returns, hence the GA tracking would not get recorded for the transaction.

You can setup auto-return for PayPal, but you’ve got to dig in their settings. Have fun with that. PayPal has organized their settings… wait organized is really too strong a word. They’ve put their settings in somewhat unintuitive fashion. Have fun! Shopp should have some documentation that may help guide you to the settings, but PayPal redesigns/updates periodically so they can be out of sync.

I think this is a Shopp-specific issue related to the multiple taxonomy query. We’re getting a patch together now.

Hey Brad, the reason loop01 suggests a plugin instead of a theme is that it gives you flexibility to change your theme. Shopp is another e-commerce plugin that definitely does what you’re asking for. Full disclosure: I’m the project lead for Shopp so my opinions will be biased that direction.

In Shopp you can have your inventory show up in the variant option menus say for size and color combinations (as an example). Also, the inventory management screen does show your products (and their variants) on one page and updates are quick through AJAX so you can just type numbers and tab through the list as quickly as you can go. It’s quite nice.