ecommerce platform with Stripe, Inventory, Emails, and a shopping cart
After completing this assignment, you should…
After completing this assignment, you be able to effectively use
Your products are listing on the homepage, and can be added to a cart.
Your cart will list the items in the cart; adding a product to the cart again will increase the quantity, rather than adding another cart item. You should be able to edit the quantity and should be able to delete a cart item.
Your checkout process should be secure, and use Stripe Checkout -- the payola checkout is recommended.
Use Rails Admin for administration of your app.
Everything in Normal mode, plus:
Add a search engine that will let you search for items.
When you add an item to the cart, stay on that page and give visual feedback to the user by a) the cart icon in the header b) change the "Add to cart" button to be text with "Added to Cart View Cart"
Create a "receipt" page that you can email to them securely, viewable without sign in
Email the user a receipt, with a link to the receipt page, upon successful purchase.
Enhance the search engine to auto-complete results. Include a custom template on results that shows a thumbnail of the image as well as
On results of the search engine, allow them to query by price "< $50" and ">= $50"
Allow users to see their previous purchases
Enable "Paper Trail" to see how sales change over time and integrate with Payola.
Use a custom domain name
Secure Rails Admin with custom authentication (or devise for an Admin User)
Passwords and Credit Cards should never be logged or stored in plain text.
You do not have to use the Payola gem, but it sure is nice.
Mandrill is my go-to emailing service on Heroku.