Hi all,

Is it possible to build an ecommerce (shopping cart, payment) component here?

IF YES:

I'm building a custom shopping cart because I couldn't find the functionality I'm looking for or it is too expensive for a site that sells cheap stuff. I have checked virtuemart, jshopping and etc.

I'm not selling products but I'm selling my services.

example:
My Services:
My Service 1 -> Design Cabinet (US$ 5)
My Service 2 -> Construct Cabinet (US$ 3)
My Service 3 -> Paint Cabinet (US$ 6)

The customer have the option to just choose any of the service 1, 2, or 3 or
combine them or maybe just service 2 and 3. or service 1 only. Customer has to tell me the property
of the cabinet (in string format) like maybe: "5m x 5m x 5m; zebra pattern; white and black; etc."

Questions:
First Question: How do you store the shopping cart in the temporary memory or cookie? I don't want to store it in the database until it has been checked out and paid.

2nd Question: How do you integrate paypal payments?
Or - do you have a pre-made ecommerce component done in j-cook and put it on my project?

3rd Question: How do you add button (add to cart) in the Frontend-> Collection -> List of Service on each services?

4th Question: How to add a shopping cart page (from the temporary memory not from the database)?

Hello jtchua,

I'm afraid you can not really build a full shopping cart component using cook. Obviously would help you give the kick start for your development, creating tables and basic structure, but the things you pointed out will not be possible with cook and some of than even uses third party libraries such as paypal...

Thanks for the reply