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Using the Sitefinity API, I would like to show you how you can import products into Sitefinity Ecommerce.   How it Works The product importer is actually a widget that is placed onto a page.  Once the page has been created, bring up the page in a browser and follow the instructions to upload your file of products to import.   Once you have uploaded your file, the product importer widget reads the values from your ...

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 own needs and make even more Pretty URL or PURL in general.  For Ecommerce, having the date in the URL does not usually create an ...

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 modifying the template for the checkout widget, we are adding a checkbox at the top of the page which disables the “Place This Order” button ...

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 variable donations. This example shows you how to work within the checkout API to create a custom checkout widget. Please note that these are just ...

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, but more importantly it allows you to enhance the functionality of the widget.    In this post, I would like to show you how to modify ...

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 is usually constrained to a specific dollar amount, meaning you can only have donations like $5, $10, $15 dollars shown in a drop-down.    Donations are ...

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 other customizations.    To use the Sitefinity Buy Now button, drag and drop the Buy Now Widget onto any content page, edit the properties of the ...

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 backend. Step 1) Create a Product Type and assign the type as a “Downloadable product”. You can add fields for this product type such as ...

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 features and updates for ALL Telerik products. Digital Downloads Online stores now have the ability to create digital downloads to sell on their web site. ...