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| − | ==== Meeting Notes ====
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| − | ===== Introductions =====
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| − | * Where is everyone coming from? Sam Nabi will tailor his tour to our needs.
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| − | ** Nonprofit org wants online registrations with payment
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| − | ** Bookseller
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| − | ** Online donations
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| − | ** Goods and Services
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| − | ** Media Production (rental of cameras, lights, &c)
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| − | * People want to make things easier for sellers and buyers
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| − | * Sam started as a city planner, moved to a startup doing web development
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| − | ** Then, Sam bought a retail store, [https://www.fullcirclefoods.ca/ Full Circle Foods]
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| − | ** ...the inherited system is a series of linked spreadsheets :/
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| − | ** Full Circle Foods has 90 suppliers. Seems a lot, but many are small, local businesses
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| − | ** Lots to be done digitizing the order system of Full Circle Foods
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| − | ===== Shopkit =====
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| − | * https://github.com/samnabi/shopkit
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| − | * Plugin for CMS called "Kirby" https://getkirby.com/
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| − | * Sam sells code for other developers to use on their websites
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| − | ** Doesn't want to deal with the actual credit card processing
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| − | ** Or poor installations by those developers
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| − | * Self-hosted PHP-based solution
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| − | ** Sold as a subscription service
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| − | ** Sam would hold the code and provides the online webhosting
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| − | * Using [https://stripe.com/ca Stripe] and [https://squareup.com/ca Square]
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| − | * Sample sites:
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| − | ** an indiegogo type site: https://coblisher.com/shop
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| − | ** retail business: http://gourmetpassions.ca/kirby
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| − | * Sam provides the code, and can work it into the design of an existing web page
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| − | * Had an idea to pool resources for pooled shipping, delivery, advertising
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| − | ** (not sure if this is a feature of ShopKit --Bob.)
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| − | * Sam is part of the Kirby CMS community
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| − | ** Didn't have an ecommerce plugin, but there was an appetite for it
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| − | ** Working over three years to develop Shopkit with the Kirby developers
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| − | ** Kirby is a file-based PHP CMS (we like that)
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| − | *** Files are written in Markdown, still accessible if Web connection goes down
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| − | *** But there is a good GUI as well (good for marketers)
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| − | *** UI is decoupled from the data
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| − | * Sam gives a quick tour of a sample installation on GitHub
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| − | ** https://github.com/samnabi/shopkit-sample-content/
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| − | ** Kirby has multi-language support, i18n, l10n
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| − | ** Also has categories, which Shopkit links to
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| − | ** It's a system of API hooks, launched from the plugin to Kirby
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| − | ** but Shopkit has all the templates for, eg. slideshows, created by Sam
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| − | * Purchasing flow:
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| − | ** Select product, increase/decrease quantity, totals are updated
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| − | ** Uses AJAX, but the site is not Javascript dependent
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| − | *** [https://adactio.com/ Jeremy Keith] is Sam's inspiration, he knows about good design.
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| − | ** There can be different shipping rules, different tax rates for different localities
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| − | ** Add personal details (name, e-mail)
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| − | * Tour of the back end
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| − | ** Resetting passwords :)
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| − | ** Sam has tried to make it easy for front-end users
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| − | ** Adding products, adding categories
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| − | *** Products have variants with different prices, options that don't affect price
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| − | **** Small oversight: Options don't have different SKUs, no separate inventory
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| − | *** Changing the use of SKUs is not dependent on the purchasing process
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| − | ** A "Featured Product" is displayed in the sidebar
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| − | ** Feature request by developers: "Items Remaining In Stock"
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| − | ** Another request: Individual e-mails for restocking
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| − | ** Shipping Rules:
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| − | *** Can be different for all countries, one country,
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| − | *** Shipping rules UI created by Sam, but as part of the plugin (even though it shows in the Kirby UI)
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| − | *** Tax and shipping rules can be defined by the developer, but not through the WebUI
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| − | *** Sam take us for a deep dive into the shipping selection code
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| − | * Reporting in Shopkit
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| − | ** Done from the Shopkit backend
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| − | ** Invoices are created by PHP into PDF files using "dompdf" https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf
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| − | ** Report invoices are generated dynamically every time, but from a static "transactions" file
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| − | ** Added some widgets on the dashboard, eg. "Abandoned, Pending, Paid/Shipped"
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| − | ** There are also site stats based on another Kirby plugin
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| − | * Payment Processing
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| − | ** Implemented at "gateways" in Shopkit
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| − | *** Each gateway has a "process" and a "callback"
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| − | ** Some processors (Square) expect money values to be in cents
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| − | *** Performing only integer operations on cents seems to be best practice
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| − | ** There are thousands of processors, so Sam has created an open system for processor gateways
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| − | *** This separates the payment processing from Shopkit itself, absolving Sam of dealing with payment issues
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| − | ** Payment processors provide an SDK for the gateway code
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| − | *** Each payment processor has its own API, unique for each installation.
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| − | * Testing
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| − | ** No formal testing methodology
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| − | ** Tries new code on a test site, Sam's own site
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| − | ** Most bugs are caught by end-users (developers)
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| − | * Shopkit and Kirby aren't quite Free Software: Code is available for inspection, modification, but not necessarily for redistribution. But payment is on the honour system.
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| − | * There have been 200 issues logged in the Shopkit issue tracker; most are from Sam himself.
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| − | ** Top question: Can I add Shopkit to an existing (Kirby) site?
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| − | *** Not really, Shopkit is a standalone application,
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| − | *** Shopkit is a good intermediate between a simple button, and a full-fledged e-commerce system.
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| − | * Shopkit's changes to Kirby are mostly in the "snippets", which might conflict with another Kirby installation's snippets
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| − | * Shopkit is a full point version behind the Kirby, always on the stable version.
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| − | * A look at the data: Order file
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| − | ** A YAML file that builds up as order information is entereed
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| − | ** Based on server's session ID (uniqueness?)
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| − | ** File locking? Kirby has some file locking built in
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| − | ** Sessions are now the same across tabs, but that may break with new Chrome tab isolation
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| − | '''Shopkit is a ''kit'', a standalone, turnkey application'''
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| − | * Kirby developer, Bastian Allgeier, is known for Zootool, and making a living off Kirby
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| − | [[Category:KWNPSA Meeting Notes]]
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| − | ==== General Business ====
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| − | * [http://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/2018/07/06/sysadminday-dinner-2018-at-abe-erb-in-kitchener/ SysAdminDay Dinner] - 6:00pm on Friday, 27 July 2018 at Abe Erb Restaurant in Kitchener
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| − | ** All System Administrators, Non-Profit, For-Profit, and their friends and relations are invited!
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| − | ==== Future Topics ====
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| − | * See [[KWNPSA Requested Topics]]
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| − | * Need a topic for Monday, 20 August 2018 (Bob can't do I2P)
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| − | ** [[Scripting Languages]] - August
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| − | ** [[Purchasing and Procurement]] - September with Kris Braun
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| − | ** [[Training]] - October
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| | [[Category:NPSA]] | | [[Category:NPSA]] |
| | [[Category:Events]] | | [[Category:Events]] |
