A simple online shop selling downloadable products. Users can pay for the products using credit card or through PayPal.
Initially, it supports both English and Chinese(zh-hk). It can be extended for other languages.
- Based on kowloon
- Able to generate continuous/non-interrupted numeric sequence as order number
- Use Gmail for email delivery
- Administration functions include
- User management
- Product management
- Order management
- Versatile products structure. Products can either be an item or a package
- Item is the basic element for sale
- Item may have variations, which have different prices. For example, a book is sold as a simple text file or a colorful pdf file.
- Different items can be packed into a single package, usually at a discounted price
- Install gem log4r
- Create the following directories
- log
- tmp
- asset
- public/pictures
- Edit config/app_config.yml to define system parameters
- Edit config/initializers/mail.rb to use Gmail as mail server
- Edit config/paypal_config.rb to store your PayPal API signature
- URL for administrative functions is ‘http://yourdomain/manage’. Default adminstrator is ‘minishopadmin’ and password is ‘secretpassword’
- SSL is not enabled