to say that if it's an issue 6 years later, it's going to be an
issue for the foreseeable future.
--Ferg
George Jaros wrote:
Josh,
I've read all the bad reviews of AbleCommerce and have to suggest you check
out the AbleCommerce forms for some positive reviews:
http://forums.topsites.com
Josh,
I've read all the bad reviews of AbleCommerce and have to suggest you check out
the AbleCommerce forms for some positive reviews: http://forums.topsites.com
Personally I've only worked with AbleComemrce 3.x (breifly) and 5.5 CFMX -
extensively. The latest version is a HUGE improvement
...) run away.
You would spend less to just pay Mary Jo to add the feature you want.
-Mark
-Original Message-
From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 1:23 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Anyone use AbleCommerce, CFMX version?
I would rather use
AbleCommerce itself was what forced us to create our OWN ecommerce
engine. The AbleCommerce code was messy and terrible. We had to keep
fixing it. Then we were encouraged to purchase a support contract JUST
TO REPORT BUGS. That was the last straw. We had some key features we
needed
Hello All,
I'm wondering if anyone has experience working with the AbleCommerce
shopping cart, specifically the CFMX version (they also offer JSP/ASP
versions). Any rants, raves, installation/usage issues?
I would rather use CFWebstore, but my boss saw that AbleCommerce syncs up
is
(or was) in java classes.
Adam
On 1/16/06, Josh Nathanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
I'm wondering if anyone has experience working with the AbleCommerce
shopping cart, specifically the CFMX version (they also offer JSP/ASP
versions). Any rants, raves, installation/usage issues
I would rather use CFWebstore, but my boss saw that AbleCommerce syncs up
with a module (StoneEdge Order Manager) that he likes on our current
shopping cart.
Well, I can't speak much about AbleCommerce (being a competitor, it wouldn't
have much value anyway). You are certainly welcome to ask
AbleCommerce, CFMX version?
I would rather use CFWebstore, but my boss saw that AbleCommerce syncs up
with a module (StoneEdge Order Manager) that he likes on our current
shopping cart.
Well, I can't speak much about AbleCommerce (being a competitor, it wouldn't
have much value anyway). You
Message -
From: Mary Jo Sminkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone use AbleCommerce, CFMX version?
I would rather use CFWebstore, but my boss saw that AbleCommerce syncs up
with a module (StoneEdge Order Manager
And this is likely still an improvement from when it was a real CF app,
at which point I had to work with it for just about the most painful
year of my life. It was complete spaghetti-code trash. It was so bad
that several years later I'm still honoring my promise to take every
opportunity I
hehe but you did learn all about cfinclude and cf mappings now didn't
ya!
-Original Message-
From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Anyone use AbleCommerce, CFMX version?
And this is likely still an improvement
Ken,
I daresay CF Webstore already rivals the ACB feature set for less than 10%
of the price.
-mark
-Original Message-
From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Anyone use AbleCommerce, CFMX version
Glad to see someone had a similar experience with it as I did.
On 1/16/06, Ken Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And this is likely still an improvement from when it was a real CF app,
at which point I had to work with it for just about the most painful
year of my life. It was complete
rivals the ACB feature set for less than 10%
of the price.
-mark
-Original Message-
From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Anyone use AbleCommerce, CFMX version?
And this is likely still an improvement from when
Glad to see someone had a similar experience with it as I did.
On 1/16/06, Ken Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can echo you're experience, mine has been agonizing over the course of
5+years using Able. Interesting hearing from others.
I was working for a place that got it 6+ years ago. We actually never got
it to get up and running consistently. I can not even remember the issues
with it now days, but I never will forget my hatred of the product.
~|
I had a look at ablecommerce once, and there is no way you will be able to
set this on shared hosting unles sthe host already support it as you need to
modify some of CF's XML files to setup servlet mappings.
-Original Message-
From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16
Well, it's been interesting to hear everyone's comments. It was my experience
with AC many years ago for my first ecommerce client that was the incentive to
initially write CFWebstore. ;-)
Josh, not that I don't want the sale, but I personally would be careful about
pushing a boss into making
-talk@houseoffusion.com
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone use AbleCommerce, CFMX version?
Well, it's been interesting to hear everyone's comments. It was my
experience with AC many years ago for my first ecommerce client that was
the incentive to initially write
AbleCommerce, CFMX version?
Mary Jo, thanks for the heads up. I haven't said anything to my boss about
the negative feedback on AC yet. I don't think he was hell bent on AC, so I
may say something like the feedback was less than positive and see where
it goes. If he presses for it more, I'll drop a quote
He's not entirely unreasonable so I think if he sees one or two quotes from
this list, he would realize that it would be a bad move to go with AC.
I assume this is in response to my comment about not pressuring a boss into a
decision. Actually I was referring more to his dislike for
I'm sure Mary Jo can add a special seal or something that says enterprise
version and sell it for 3 grand - right Mary Jo?
Yup, I could certainly do that as well!
Mary Jo Sminkey
Author of CFWebstore, ColdFusion E-commerce software
http://www.cfwebstore.com
On 1/16/06, Mary Jo Sminkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I notice that Tumi.com (they're an up and coming luxury luggage maker) is
using some kind of Fusebox app, anyone know exactly what store they're
using, or is it built internally?
Hhm, that's certainly not a typical Fusebox application, and
Does anybody on the list have experience customizing AbleCommerce? If so,
please contact me off-list. Thanks.
Walt
Walt Sparrow-Hood
Director, E-Commerce
GenTek, Inc.
~|
Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor
All,
We just upgraded our MX 6.0 server to MX 6.1. We are also running
AbleCommerce. We've updated the AC code and application per their
instructions, but we are now getting this error:
Could not get DataSource : acbMasterSGMX
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: No such binding: acbMasterSGMX
://forums.topsites.com/ftopic355.html
Hope that helps.
-dave
Original Message -
From: Jake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:15:42 -0500
Subject: AbleCommerce Error - help!
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All,
We just upgraded our MX 6.0 server to MX 6.1. We are also running
AbleCommerce. We've
Jake,
If you have access to enter the CF Server administrator, have you
tried confirming the datasource?Just in case you do not know where
to look, you should select the DataSources under DATA AND
SERVICES?
I also found a nice document, that you may or may/not find handy.
Ok..according to the ablecommerce support article, here's the problem
with 6.1 and Able:
For installations using JRun, the neo-query.xml and jrun-resources.xml
files are no longer synchronized. As a result, JRun users running the
J2EE configuration must add data sources to both ColdFusion
(neo
Use the JMC (JRun Management Console) on port 8000 - you may need to
start the admin server for this - to add the data sources in the same
way you would with the ColdFusion Administrator.
On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 12:18 US/Pacific, Angel Stewart wrote:
Ok..according to the ablecommerce
Has anyone here on the list had any experience with AbleCommerce?
I have been asked to think about how to put together an e-commerce site (a
field I have never needed to look at) and AbleCommerce popped into my head.
Anyone have any views/opinions of this software or any alternative
I was going to look for something at www.ablecommerce.com and it looks
like their web site is gone. Does anyone know if they have been another
company to fold?
I got to their site just fine. As a matter of fact, it even looks like
they've just released updated products very recently.
Hey all,
Has anyone managed to sync the new ablecommerce 4 for CF MX with Paypal?
You can get the program opensource, and there's supposed to be
literature on linking it to other payment processing
Options such as Paypal.
To me though, paypal is so ubiquitous on the web now that I can't
, January 08, 2003 2:15 PM
Subject: Integrating Ablecommerce 4MX with Paypal
Hey all,
Has anyone managed to sync the new ablecommerce 4 for CF MX with Paypal?
You can get the program opensource, and there's supposed to be
literature on linking it to other payment processing
Options
: Angel Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:15 PM
Subject: Integrating Ablecommerce 4MX with Paypal
Hey all,
Has anyone managed to sync the new ablecommerce 4 for CF MX with Paypal?
You can get the program opensource, and there's supposed
08, 2003 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Integrating Ablecommerce 4MX with Paypal
I just finished a site with this, but it was a bitch. Paypal has no test
mode so you have to run a bunch of 1 cent transactions on someone's card
and refund them later. If you are using IPN to get customer info back
from
The Readiness Operation Inc owns a license for an unlimited store version
of AbleCommerce (which licenses are no longer available).
I'm considering selling The Readiness Operation Inc, which has the ABC
license as one of its assets. I don't believe such a sale violates the
terms of the ABC
in the database. Once
I
have a solution for this, I will post it.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me directly.
AbleCommerce was able to reproduce this bug when I notified them of it. They
are working to fix the problem in version 4.0 due out later this year.
--Jeff
The other day I found an obscure bug in the way AbleCommerce sums pricing for
totals and subtotals. In my case, it exhibited itself when I discounted an ite
m
using a 10% discount. This caused products to have three decimal places in the
discounted price ($14.95 discounted 10% is $13.455
We have a little problem with a missing file. If anyone is using Able
Commerce and can be so kind as to pass along a copy of cfx_acbutil, i'd much
appreciate it.
Please send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you.
Henry Ahn
NextJump, Inc.
212-685-7101 x941 (W)
Hi Henry,
I forwarded your request to support and you should see that shortly.
--
If I may be of further assistance please call me at 888/801-1333 x112
or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best Regards,
Steve Cameron - AbleCommerce
888/801-1333 x112 360/253-2136 FAX
www.ablecommerce.com
I guess I should stay out of this one :D
Duane
-Original Message-
From: C Runyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:18 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: AbleCommerce
I'm working at a company that is planning to buy AbleCommerce to do
e-commerce. Just wondering
no join in...
-p
-Original Message-
From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:59
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: AbleCommerce
I guess I should stay out of this one :D
Duane
-Original Message-
From: C Runyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent
I think I've already incurred the wrath of Ablecommerce's CEO, Mike
Randolph, enough for one year.
Duane
-Original Message-
From: Paris Lundis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:01 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: AbleCommerce
no join in...
-p
-Original
/JSP version are going to be used
for the new NEO version of AbleCommerce 4.0.
LET ME REPEAT WE WILL HAVE THREE VERSIONS OF ABLECOMMERCE TWO OF THEM SUPPORTING
MACROMEDIA PRODUCTS
1. Microsoft ASP version is done and in Beta
2. Macromedia JSP version 80% complete
3. NEO version
I'm working at a company that is planning to buy AbleCommerce to do
e-commerce. Just wondering if anyone has opinions positive or negative
about using it. If anyone has done source code modifications it would be
helpful to know how easy that is. We're expecting to do some of that as
well
Hi,
If you want to do what it does straight out of the box, it will work
great. Depending on your modifications, expect some serious work to modify
the code.
Chuck Rodgers
At 10:17 PM 12/3/01 +, you wrote:
I'm working at a company that is planning to buy AbleCommerce to do
e-commerce
well... AbleCommerce is a mature product... I actually bought a bundled
version of it a while back and never used it...
For all intensive purposes, AbleCommerce does a lot and isn't exactly a good
piece to throw at non-technical.. Actually the learning curve and
implementation time
Runyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:18 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: AbleCommerce
I'm working at a company that is planning to buy AbleCommerce to do
e-commerce. Just wondering if anyone has opinions positive or negative
about using it. If anyone has done source code
a
bit of work, but is their code difficult to figure out? Hoping it's well
written and commented so we can figure out where we need to make changes.
Chris
From: Chuck Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AbleCommerce
Date: Mon, 03 Dec
to figure out? Hoping it's well
written and commented so we can figure out where we need to make changes.
Chris
From: Chuck Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AbleCommerce
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 17:21:15 -0500
Hi,
If you want to do
Bloated. By the time you have dug through ablecommerce you code have
written clean code yourself.
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, C Runyan wrote:
I'm working at a company that is planning to buy AbleCommerce to do
e-commerce. Just wondering if anyone has opinions positive or negative
about using
figure out where we need to make
changes.
Chris
From: Chuck Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AbleCommerce
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 17:21:15 -0500
Hi,
If you want to do what it does straight out of the box
Chris,
As an out-of-the-box solution Ablecommerce is definitely worth it, it
provides most of the functionality you
would need from a middle market e-commerce package. I have used it before
and had no trouble deploying e-commerce sites and even customizing them,
most of the changes can be done
Twice, Cut Once.
- Original Message -
From: Gantz, Shlomy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:56 AM
Subject: RE: AbleCommerce
Chris,
As an out-of-the-box solution Ablecommerce is definitely worth it, it
provides most of the functionality
Why don't you check out NetReady. It blows AbleCommerce away. It's
fuseboxed and modular - very easy to modify. Also works with Oracle,
Access, and SQL 7...
Get details here if you want...
http://aloha-webdesign.com
+---+
Bryan Love
Macromedia
We tried AbleCommerce and dumped it -- wasted a lot of time and money in the
process, too.
Basically, it's a pain in the ass to customize. It's so complicated, so
configurable, that any minor change is very problematic. All the code is
broken up into about a billion include files, thus ensuring
Hi Chris,
We just launched a AbleCommerce site for my customer. Its a internal site
that required forced-login and thus need to understand quite a bit of the
code.
I have to agree with most of the comments, that its a rather mind boggling
task customising it. Most of the time, I need to track
Does anyone know of any CustomTags for AbleCommerce integration? I have to
integrate it with paperthin's commonspot, content publisher.
Thanx
btc
-- does anyone have experience using CommonSpot? My company is a reseller
and I have not seen to much notoriety about itanyone? just looking
What version of Able are you running?
At 04:35 PM 4/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Does anyone know of any CustomTags for AbleCommerce integration? I have to
integrate it with paperthin's commonspot, content publisher.
Thanx
btc
-- does anyone have experience using CommonSpot? My company
Hi All,
Has anyone here built an add on to ACB for customer handling returns?
TIA,
Duane
~~
Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at
http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
Archives:
If you need one I think forsite-designs built one. Check the forums on
ABLE's site I have seen numerous messages about it.
At 04:34 PM 4/5/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Hi All,
Has anyone here built an add on to ACB for customer handling returns?
TIA,
Duane
On 1/26/01, Duane Boudreau penned:
Can anyone tell me what is involved with setting up PGP encryption? I'm
thinking of using it to encrypt the numbers
while they sit in the database.
It'll pretty easy with PGP and the CFX_PGP tag if the card is only
being stored so the site owner can retrieve
Does anyone here have ablecommerce experience? I've been saddled with the
task of
"fixing" a few things in the app and while poking around at some of the data
I noticed that the application stores credit cards in the database. Has
anyone here bothered to encrypt them?
Can anyone te
I am looking into integrating the check orders feature of AbleCommerce with
UPS office. So order info will automatically get exported to UPS Office
for shipping label generation.
Any one done this?
Joel
Joel Richards
Web Developer
Brainstorm Industries
http://www.brainstormin.net/[EMAIL
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