Mobile Optimized Shopping Cart for cell phone user
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Topic: Mobile Optimized Shopping Cart for cell phone user
Posted By: roknrod12
Subject: Mobile Optimized Shopping Cart for cell phone user
Date Posted: 03-August-2009 at 5:52pm
| A lot of retailers are now creating optimized versions of their shopping carts for cell phone users. Does anyone know if this can be done with ProductCart using an add-on or is this something completely out of the scope of PC? Or are the developers incorporating this into v4? |
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Posted By: roknrod12
Date Posted: 24-August-2009 at 11:06am
Wow! No responses. Is this completely unfamiliar territory for everyone else, too?! 
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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 24-August-2009 at 11:18am
Posted By: roknrod12
Date Posted: 24-August-2009 at 11:23am
| Thanks for the response, Greg. Does this sound like something doable with ProductCart? Would it sound like something that you could tackle, or would be interested in? Possibility of discussing to get a quote? thx -rh |
Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 24-August-2009 at 11:27am
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Give me a call to discuss. ------------- GreyBeard Design Group Certified ProductCart Developer Web Design/Development/Hosting http://tinyurl.com/5c8t4t" rel="nofollow - Add-Ons & Custom Code | |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 24-August-2009 at 11:40am
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Hi rockinrod12,
I've developed an app for this based on accessing the site via a .mobi extension. Essentially it dynamically strips pages down to their most basic markup for small cell phone browsers (that is, not for smart phones such as iPhones & Blackberries which have much better graphic browsers).
It would definitely need some testing and probably some tweaking for PC specifically, but it's essentially compatible with any site/application.
PM me if you are interested.
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Posted By: roknrod12
Date Posted: 24-August-2009 at 12:50pm
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Here are a couple of examples of what we're looking for:
http://m.sweetwater.com - m.sweetwater.com http://m.musiciansfriend.com - m.musiciansfriend.com These will give you more of an idea of what we're wanting to do. Let me know if that's of interest. Thanks -rh |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 24-August-2009 at 8:01pm
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Hi rh, The approach I mentioned earlier is too "down and dirty" compared with this, though I noticed that both of these degrade once the user hits checkout. The one we did was really just for these little Internet enabled cell phones; what you are looking for is more a graphically based browser with a very small view port, and all of the essential functionality that ProductCart offers. In broad strokes, this looks to me like a very significant rewrite of ProductCart for this specific functionality. I'm interested to see what Greg's take is. At the moment, we wouldn't have time to take this on in the foreseeable future given current queue. Seems to me that this would make a fabulous add-on for PC, though. Just would be a lot of work. |
Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 24-August-2009 at 8:52pm
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 24-August-2009 at 9:03pm
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Yeah, and somewhat the product pages too (lots of potential layout and functionality tweaks there) . . . but onto your point, Greg, I did find it interesting (telling?) that the two examples rh referenced here both start to lose it at the checkout funnel. |
Posted By: roknrod12
Date Posted: 25-August-2009 at 10:09am
| It's definitely 'little charted territory'. Musician's Friend seems to be the only one I've found that will actually take orders. Even Best Buy's mobile optimized site does not take orders. There are more and more people surfing the web via mobile/smart phones these days, and I definitely think this is a train we need to ride. |