Hey Tom,
I wrote the ecommerce part of www.skinmedica.com, which uses a quite
complex promotions setup and took some iterations to get it right. I'd
be happy to help.
Our cart works similar to what Antoine said, where the shopping cart
is distinct from the final order, and mostly responsible for
Thanks, guys! That's a great help. I will most probably take you up on
your offer of help! :) In the meantime, I have a couple of follow on
questions:
1. What do you see the benefits of having a separate cart and order objects?
2. The Promotion classes were the logic takes place, are they also
Hi,
Cool Daniel, I am happy that you confirm this choice.
For multi promotion, the weight is a good idea.
I was thinking of a config file, to say if a promotion are combinable
with the other (matrix). But in fact a matrix with weight would be
perfect..
1. First you need to store the cart in the
Hey Tom,
any time.
The reason to keep orders and the cart separate is an issue of
separation of concerns, where we're trying to avoid having classes do
too many things (for all the obvious reasons of maintainability,
easier unit testing and future flexibility).
In our system orders are
Hey Antoine,
yeah, the weight is helpful, because it allows you to quickly declare
certain promotions king.. for example, our subtotal promotion has a
weight of 10, where other promotions range around 1-5 so far, so that
it always gets applied last. As promotions get more similar, the
weight
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Richtermeister nex...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Tom,
any time.
The reason to keep orders and the cart separate is an issue of
separation of concerns, where we're trying to avoid having classes do
too many things (for all the obvious reasons of maintainability,
Hi,
I am currently developing a promotion/voucher/discount system too.
First, I have to calculate this in the shopping cart and not in the
order.
Even if the shopping cart is a reflect of a future order, for me they
are distinct.
I have many parameters in the shopping cart too like the delivery
