Stripe is a payment service which is making big news in the U.S. for its pricing, ease of use and developer friendly implementations. Stripe does not require you to use a merchant account or gateway. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to your bank account. As ...
In Sitefinity 5.1, custom fields can now be easily added to a Sitefinity search index. No-longer do you need to use pipes and custom programming to include custom fields. How it works The properties for the search results widget and search index now contain a field whereby you add the ...
Out of the box, Sitefinity empowers you to easily manage permissions for CMS users and roles. Many customers have used Sitefinity to create content pages that are assigned to certain roles; like platinum, gold or silver. You can use these permission roles along with Sitefinity Ecommerce to create a membership ...
Sitefinity Ecommerce comes package with a free 3rd party image tool called Fancybox. FancyBox (www.fancybox.net) is a JQuery tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "light box" that floats overtop of web page. Fancybox is great tool to use for displaying images, however it ...
Out of the box, Sitefinity Ecommerce V5 does not have an interface for relating products to each other. This feature is currently in design and will most likely be available in V5.2. Until this feature is released, I would like to show you how you can create related products using ...
Poll and surveys are very common in ecommerce as it provides important marketing information from customer. Most often you will find surveys which pop-up when a customer has successfully checked out. In this blog post, I will show you how to create your own poll / survey asking the customer ...
Another hook introduced into Sitefinity 5.0 is a pre-processing hook that allows you to write customized code through a pre-purchase processing hook in the Ecommerce module. This could be used to do any business logic that a merchant needs before processing an order. A developer can create custom code and ...
Using the Sitefinity API, I would like to show you how you can import products into Sitefinity Ecommerce. Update - Version 1.2 released Version 1.2 has been released which now includes support for uploading of tags and other enhancements. To download the lastest update, please visit http://nuget.org/packages/SitefinityEcommerceProductUpload. How it ...
By default, Sitefinity Ecommerce ships with a date formatted URL for the Product Detail page, which comes very handy if you just want to let your users know when the product was published. But as with any other part of Sitefinity, this URL can be highly customized to meet your ...
In Sitefinity, modifying a template for a widget is extremely easy. In this example, I will show you how to add a simple checkbox to the “Checkout” page, whereby the customer must click on agreeing to the terms and conditions before they can confirm the purchase. How it works By ...
This example is part of several series that I will be releasing in the near future showing how to use the Sitefinity Ecommerce API. The first example was the Sitefinity Donation Widget that showed you how to create a custom widget to modify a product price allowing for fixed and ...
One of the great features of Sitefinity is most of the user widgets (widgets are dragged-dropped onto pages) come with a default template that you can modify and customize. This is a very powerful feature of Sitefinity as it allows you to change the look and feel of the template, ...
I thought it would be exciting to demonstrate how you can use the Sitefinity Ecommerce API to create a custom donation widget for accepting online donations. Donations are usually difficult for many ecommerce systems. Below I have listed a few reasons ecommerce applications struggle with online donations. The donation amount ...
Introduced in Sitefinity 4, the Sitefinity Buy Now widget allows you to add a purchase button to any content page, allowing the visitor to add a product to their shopping cart, or proceed directly to checkout. It is very similar to PayPal’s Buy Now button except ours includes a few ...
In this blog post, I will explain how to create a digital download, how the pre-processing hook works and review the update we made to product variations adding support for multilingual variations. Digital Downloads Below are the steps you would follow when creating a digital download in the Sitefinity ...
Sitefinity Ecommerce 5.0 adds three highly requested features from our user community. Digital Downloads Pre-Processing hook Multilingual variations These three features were highly suggested by our user community and will be featured in our Q1 webinar week starting February 20th. During this week, Telerik Evangelists will be providing demonstrations showing new ...