eCommerce Website

[ChrisN]

Does anyone have any experience with or recommendations for setting up eCommerce websites? We are wanting to create some sort of online web store, so I am looking for suggestions on which software to research.

We use Cyrious Control, so we tried out Cyrious eCommerce. But we did not like the limited customization, and (ironically) integration with Control was not that great.

So now I am starting to look for something that can be somewhat custom built to suit our needs. Here are some things we are looking for:

• Sign designer
• Pricing changes based on customer selected options and customization. (e.g. size, material, add-ons, etc.)
  
• Some type of pricing integration with Control (could be as simple as pulling the price of materials, labor, etc. and using that to calculate the website pricing)
• Create orders in Control when order is placed on website
  
• Link online products to existing products in Control
• Online payment system (e.g. Paypal)
• Shipping integration

 

[Joe Anderson]

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[Skeezix]

I have been looking at Shopify to build out.
Any thoughts?

 

[Sindex Printing]

we are in the middle of building a site with presscentric. It seems to have everything we were looking for.

 

[Pauly]

wonder if theres any wordpress/woocommerce plugins for this

 

[FireSprint.com]

You should look into OnPrintShop.com. You would need to have them help you set up an integration between it and control, but I imagine it could be done with their API.

You're probably going to need to get a little more rigid with how you sell your products online though. Having products "Generate" automatically based on material costs and settings in your internal system probably won't happen. You'll need to build the products on your website, and have the orders sync into your internal system with order details.

 

[Print1]

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[caribmike]

I looked at OnPrintShop but it was very spendy. I went with a site from Print Science that is Wordpress and Woo Commerce based. Its way less expensive and totally customizable. It's perfect for commercial printing, large format, apparel and promo products. As a plus, Print Science is based in the US while OnPrintShop is based in India. That may make a difference to some.

 

[Humble PM]

I looked at OnPrintShop but it was very spendy. I went with a site from Print Science that is Wordpress and Woo Commerce based. Its way less expensive and totally customizable. It's perfect for commercial printing, large format, apparel and promo products. As a plus, Print Science is based in the US while OnPrintShop is based in India. That may make a difference to some.

That looks like what I've been looking for, just as we're about to move over to squarespace...

 

[Pauly]

I looked at OnPrintShop but it was very spendy. I went with a site from Print Science that is Wordpress and Woo Commerce based. Its way less expensive and totally customizable. It's perfect for commercial printing, large format, apparel and promo products. As a plus, Print Science is based in the US while OnPrintShop is based in India. That may make a difference to some.

I've used both.

Im not sure where you're going with the location they're based at....

Because OPS support craps on print science regardless what country they're from.
I would hardly get a response from printscience. I had one major issue with shipping integration with a shipping plugin we use, the dev wanted to contact printscience to help resolve the issue as it was on their end but they wanted nothing of it.
Not only that, i went out of my way to fix a bug in one of their version for a PDF invoicing plugin they recommend to use, as they put in a direct integration for it. i sent the modified files to them, They rolled out the update with my fix.. but i got no appreciation, no thankyou or anything. ???

Their lack of support made me leave very quick.
Also i had to spend a lot of time making our integrations work properly - important ones like Xero.

but with OnPrintShop, they have a solid chat support and will set up teams to help with any issue you're having and is overall a better system.
All the support team are extremely friendly, and they will not stop until the issue is resolved.
Im not going to go on and on about OPS but it changed a lot for us.

 

[hybriddesign]

We were really impressed by the demos of onprintshop as well and everyone has positive things to say about them. Sales people were friendly as well. Cost wasn’t that bad either. The only thing we didn’t like was that 50% of our bus is apparel and it doesn’t cross over well into that but for signs, banners, etc it seems awesome. We had to back off on our plans to go with them due to finances but if we ever get our Employee Retention Credit that we’ve been waiting forever for it’s first on our to buy list.

 

[Pauly]

We were really impressed by the demos of onprintshop as well and everyone has positive things to say about them. Sales people were friendly as well. Cost wasn’t that bad either. The only thing we didn’t like was that 50% of our bus is apparel and it doesn’t cross over well into that but for signs, banners, etc it seems awesome. We had to back off on our plans to go with them due to finances but if we ever get our Employee Retention Credit that we’ve been waiting forever for it’s first on our to buy list.

There are more dedicated solutions for apparel and i believe you'd be able to use the same platform for banners and signs also.
OPS is great but it obviously doesn't have every answer.
You could set up the HTML5 designer with apparel templates. I know it's possible. It'l be a bit of setting up though.

There are other solutions you could get for that with WordPress/Woocommerce or even shopify.
For example, you can get something as cheap as these WordPress plugins.

Fancy Product Designer | WooCommerce WordPress

The most successful Product Designer with more than 15000 sales!

codecanyon.net

or

Product Designer for WooCommerce WordPress | Lumise

System Requires More details ZipArchive() ...

codecanyon.net

There are heaps of others. those are just 2 i found that had a lot of downloads.

The good thing about W2P SaaS solutions is there's less setting up the store theme etc, and it's more configuring the products. I used to know a bunch but have forgotten them.