purplemonkey
22 Mar 2008, 07:06 AM
Any help on this would be much appreciated
I am in the process of building a website and require to implement an automated process into the website:
The automated aspect of the website is required due to the fact that the website is selling products that are strictly limited in number. When a customer purchases the last remaining product from a product batch an automated process must begin which then updates the website in several ways:
· The images of the sold out product and its individual product page does not change
· The product code associated with the sold out product does changes
· The new product code replaces the old product code in all areas where it was previously display (terms and conditions page, order pages etc.)
· Each product has a question which is associated with each individual product code, when a product code changes (a batch of products sell out) so does the question linked to it. The new question will be picked at random from a secure database of questions.
Due to the strictly limited number of products per product batch, when the last 30 products remain from a specific batch and a customer wishes to purchase one of these products, once they have chosen to begin the purchase process the product will be ‘reserved’ for 5 minutes whilst the customer completes the checkout process. The idea behind this is that it avoids the disappointment of a customer completing the checkout process only to discover the product has now sold out.
Any ideas on how easy/difficult this is likely to be?
I am in the process of building a website and require to implement an automated process into the website:
The automated aspect of the website is required due to the fact that the website is selling products that are strictly limited in number. When a customer purchases the last remaining product from a product batch an automated process must begin which then updates the website in several ways:
· The images of the sold out product and its individual product page does not change
· The product code associated with the sold out product does changes
· The new product code replaces the old product code in all areas where it was previously display (terms and conditions page, order pages etc.)
· Each product has a question which is associated with each individual product code, when a product code changes (a batch of products sell out) so does the question linked to it. The new question will be picked at random from a secure database of questions.
Due to the strictly limited number of products per product batch, when the last 30 products remain from a specific batch and a customer wishes to purchase one of these products, once they have chosen to begin the purchase process the product will be ‘reserved’ for 5 minutes whilst the customer completes the checkout process. The idea behind this is that it avoids the disappointment of a customer completing the checkout process only to discover the product has now sold out.
Any ideas on how easy/difficult this is likely to be?