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| − | ==== Resources ====
| + | * [[Web Stores and Shopping Carts/Meeting Notes 2018-07-16]] |
| − | * [https://shopkit.samnabi.com/ Shopkit by Sam Nabi] | |
| − | * [https://www.techsoupcanada.ca/en/shopify-donation-for-lower-budget-organizations/product/advanced-shopify-plan-6-month-initial-subscr Shopify from TechSoup Canada]
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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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| − | * Want to make things easier for sellers and buyers
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| − | ===== Shopkit =====
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| − | * https://github.com/samnabi/shopkit
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| − | * Plugin for CMS called "Kirby"
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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 Stripe and 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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| − | * Sam started as a city planner, moved to a startup doing web development
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| − | ** Then, Sam bought a retail store (Full Circle Foods)
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| − | ** ...the inherited system is a series of linked spreadsheets :/
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| − | ** Full Circle has 90 suppliers. Seems a lot, but many are small, local businesses
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| − | ** Lots to be done digitizing the order system
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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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| − | *** 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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| − | [[Category:KWNPSA Meeting Notes]]
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| − | <!-- ==== General Business ==== -->
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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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| | [[Category:NPSA]] | | [[Category:NPSA]] |
| | [[Category:Events]] | | [[Category:Events]] |
