Pulse Ecommerce final release! 🛒

[pulsecms]

I’m not sure what Abmahnfähig is, but it sounds terrible

Let me look at some of those, most of them seem common sense and fixable already in the current implementation:

-> Under the price in the shop must always be the following sentence, if it is for an end customer: “incl. VAT excl. Shipping costs”

• you could add this in the product description - there’s a huge space for this
• Or as it’s a tag on the page, add this in another Block at the bottom saying “all items inc VAT excl. Shipping costs” - or whatever

-> exact delivery time

• Same as above, in your FAQs on the page or in the product description

-> The customer must get a separate overview of his order before completion of the order (conditionally fulfilled)

• There is a full order before completing (going to checkout) in the basket total
• PayPal screen also shows the order again before “proceeding to payment”

-> The right of withdrawal and the General Terms and Conditions must be confirmed separately prior to purchase, usually during the last process. They must be visible and printable.

• There is not “confirm” box for this
• But you could at least add Terms and Conditions to the page as a Block or link to a Terms page
• “By paying you agree to our terms and conditions” - but to do more than that is beyond the scope of the add-on at the moment

-> The last confirmation button must read: “paid order” or similar

• Not sure what this means but in a future update we’ll allow the Ecommerce plugin to be translatable
• The PayPal checkout can be changed to be in German so I’m sure they have this as default in their lang settings?

-> After ordering, the customer must immediately receive an e-mail with the order details and the terms and conditions and the right of withdrawal

• PayPal handle this and send a payment notification to the shop keeper and a the order details to the customer - with their terms. I’m sure they are legal in Germany?

-> VAT must be displayed and calculated in the order summary.

• The plugin doesn’t do consumption tax currently, but that can be added in PayPal and you’ll see that on the last confirmation page

Maybe you can help me too. When I click on “Proceed to Checkout” in the shopping cart, I am redirected to Paypal and receive the error message: “Sorry, a system error has occurred. Please try again later.”

• What did you add to the page as your tag? There seems to be a Euros bug that will be fixed in a quick update out soon (5.3.1)

Thanks for the feedback!

[ezchile]

I’m also getting that Paypal message. You end up at a blank white screen.

Also, any idea how to change the currency symbol to something other than ‘$’?
I’ve used the following tag:

{{unishop:"test@this.that":"GBP":"en_GB":"5":"/paypal_ok":"/paypal_cancel"}}

I’d hoped that it would then display ‘£’… But ti doesn’t. If I try to add it into the ‘Price’ field, I end up with ‘$£’.

Shipping also really doesn’t make sense to me. I can’t set it to anything other than free, and surely each item might require it’s own shipping cost - as some things might be heavier than others…?

[codiergott]

> The customer must get a separate overview of his order before completion of the order (conditionally fulfilled)

Dear Pulse Team,

“Abmahnfähig” means that there are lawyers in Germany who search websites and search for legal errors and then warn the owners with a sum of money.

The customer has to make a separate overview of the order (conditionally fulfilled)

The customer must complete a complete overview of the order and the statement of VAT and shipping costs before concluding and paying. And then the order button must get a special note. For example, “paid order” or something like that. And the terms and conditions and the right of withdrawal must be confirmed via a checkbox. What Paypal indicates when forwarding does not count.

It may sound completely crazy. But it is like that in Germany. If you could add an overview page before the process button to Paypal, I think many would have helped. There is also great service, such as paddle etc. In Germany not allowed for a German company !!

I will give an example:
In Germany a cancellation period of 14 days applies to online orders. A judge has then decided that there must be 4 weeks on Ebay. There was a transitional period of a few weeks. Then lawyers have searched on the Ebay search in the Terms and all dealers with 14 days withdrawal period sued / warned. It will be expensive for the dealer. There are whole law firms in Germany that only do that.

Kind regards
David

[pulsecms]

I’m also getting that Paypal message. You end up at a blank white screen.

• What tag options are you using for this?
• {{unishop:"test@this.that":"GBP":"en_GB":"5":"/paypal_ok":"/paypal_cancel"}} ?
• Please try it with “0” instead of “5”

I’d hoped that it would then display ‘£’… But ti doesn’t. If I try to add it into the ‘Price’ field, I end up with ‘$£’.

• Yes we are fixing this with an option in 5.3.1

Shipping also really doesn’t make sense to me. I can’t set it to anything other than free, and surely each item might require it’s own shipping cost - as some things might be heavier than others…?

• Yes, we will add more shipping options per item in a future update
• PayPal only has simple shipping so it will be flat rate - regardless of the item quantity but each item will have it’s own shipping rate

[pulsecms]

Thanks for the explanation @codiergott - yes that sounds pretty terrible

At this stage the Ecommerce is linked with PayPal so if they are not providing enough protection in this matter, there’s not much else we can add on except some kind of overview page perhaps.

Or maybe being able to add some kind of text under the buttons on this pop-up?

Yes Paddle is good and @instacks has a Paddle Tag already available or can offer advice on

[instacks]

There is also great service, such as paddle etc. In Germany not allowed for a German company !!

@codiergott

I don’t understand that quote (I am speaking German).

[ezchile]

@pulsecms

Please try it with “0” instead of “5”

Same result.

The contents of the page it's on is:

{{block:home/title}}
{{unishop:"test@this.that":"GBP":"en_GB":"0":"/paypal_ok":"/paypal_cancel"}}

Add something to cart, attempt to checkout..

Ending up with this screen.

[codiergott]

Hallo Instacks,

benutzt du zum Verkauf in Deutschland Paddle? Ich habe mit einem IT-Rechts Anwalt gesprochen und der hat mir davon abgeraten. Habe bei Paypal auch den gleichen Fehler, wie ezchile.

Gruss

[instacks]

benutzt du zum Verkauf in Deutschland Paddle?

Yes.

I case of Paddle, they are the Merchant of Record. The contract will be closed between Paddle and the customer, not you. This is clearly visible in their checkout form (and not yours).

[codiergott]

Ok, thanks for the answer. This was new to me. Have you tried Snipcart before? In this case of PulseCMS ecommerce I do not conclude a contract with Paypal but the customer with me. And then it will be difficult to comply with all German laws or do you see it differently?

[pulsecms]

That might be because "test@this.that" is a fake email address? You need to put your actual PayPal account in here, either sandbox or active (live) address

It works in GBP, USD, EUR etc as the screens:

Also, please be careful of your curly quotes... it's " and not “

The only bug we can see is the front end still shows a $ sign although the cart is set for EUR - so we are adding this in 5.3.1 which will be out very soon - thanks for the testing!

[pulsecms]

Not sure how it applies to German law, but here is a demo of Snipcart + Pulse:
https://www.pulsecms.com/store/plugins/snipcart/

And it works nicely

[ezchile]

That might be because “test@this.that” is a fake email address? You need to put your actual PayPal account in here, either sandbox or active (live) address

It works in GBP, USD, EUR etc as the screens:

Sadly, it’s exactly the same after trying your suggestions. I’m using a live Paypal address, literally cutting and pasting the tag above into the page, I’m ensuring that the quotes aren’t being changed (whoch seems to happen when cutting and pasting into the forum for some reason) and I have even reverted back to “USD” : “US” for currency and locale, in case that was part of the problem.

I’ve uploaded it to a live server (previously I was testing on MAMP) and still the same. Out of interest, what did you set the currency and locale to in order to get Paypal to show a GBP page? Whatever I’ve tried brings back nothing but a ‘BAD_INPUT_ERROR’ from Paypal.

I’m sure it’s likely to be something stupidly simple. I’d love to know what though…

[pulsecms]

Pulse commerce is now updated and improved for 5.3.1 (which will most likely be out tomorrow):

• You can select another currency like EUR and all the currency symbols should now work
• The products editing screen has been improved for editing
• PayPal checkout page is working
• You can now add individual shipping amounts per item
• The tag has been updated to:
  {{unishop:"test@this.that":"USD":"$":"US":"0":"/paypal_ok":"/paypal_cancel"}}

The new order is:

• business mail address
• currency_code
• currency_symbol
• locale
• no_shipping flag should be either true or false
• return_url should be a full url
• cancel_url should also be a full url

[pulsecms]

@ezchile - for UK and GBP then just switch it to

{{unishop:"test@this.that":"GBP":"UK":"0":"/paypal_ok":"/paypal_cancel"}}

• If problems persist please send us a link to your site
• This is working in testing, if not:
• Please try it with 5.3.1 after it has shipped tomorrow
• Send me a private message with the exact tag you are using

Thanks

[ezchile]

Hi Michael.

Firstly, thanks so much for looking into this. I have now downloaded 5.3.1, which seems to be so very nearly there in terms of eCommerce in places where currency isn’t a dollar amount.

I did notice that the newly defined currency symbol shows everywhere other than a couple of related places ($ is still hardcoded within the price dropdowns within the front-end and any new price added in the back-end)

But the checkout page seems to pass the correct info through, which is really great.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news regarding the dollar symbol bit. Your teams hard work on this is very much appreciated.

[pulsecms]

Thanks for the report @ezchile

From what I can see:

• new products are showing the correct currencies (this is a new product I just added now):

• the problem is adding dropdown information - the currency symbol is incorrect on the front:

• and the back:

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Let me know if this is what you are reporting?

We'll get this out in 5.3.2 - but just going to take a short break for now

[ezchile]

Yes. That’s what I mention above. I only noticed it in the frontend dropdown information, and the backend ‘Price’ information which is being added automatically.

Enjoy your break Michael.

[pulsecms]

Thanks @ezchile

In the meantime, the options cane be done by hand so those will need to be edited in shop.xml if the currency is changed (in Tags folder) but will get a solution out for this