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Ruby on Rails Ecommerce platform, perfect for your small business solution.
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Is it possible use e-commerce cart feature in my own app? #140

Closed mcmegavolt closed 10 years ago

mcmegavolt commented 10 years ago

I have own app with simple products catalog. So, I need a cart feature with storing in browser cookies, NO sign_up and sign_in.

How can I do that? Thanks!

drhenner commented 10 years ago

You probably could but...

You still need to create a user record (maybe at the billing address step, just ask for email & then create a user) You need to change the validations for the user . (password, name) You need to either make the user.email not unique or do a find_or_create when you get the user's email.

You can not give the order status / shipping status to your customer via the UI (security) Customer Service would be a nightmare if you became a large company

So... I probably can be done but it probably should not be done in my opinion. "Should not" because of business reasons not tech reasons.

drhenner commented 10 years ago

feel free to ask more questions but I'm closing this ticket