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Hi, all,

I have two problems with KonaKart, which are related to each other.

First, it appears that KonaKart allows one to order more of a certain product than the quantity configured in the admin app. For example, I may have a qty of 5 for a widget, but a customer can go through the checkout process and buy 10. Sure, KonaKart says that the product is not in stock, but it assumes that it'll become in stock soon enough to accept the order! For me that's not the case. Is it possible to configure KonaKart to simply not allow a customer to complete checkout if the desired quantity exceeds supply?

Second, product options. KonaKart allows me to specify a quantity for each product option. But again, it appears to be mostly ignored. It's even worse than with a normal product, as KonaKart still continues to display the product option that's unavailable! I'd expect KonaKart to not display a product option that's unavailable, and like above, not allow the order to go through.

Is it possible to configure KonaKart to have my desired behavior for both of these points?

Thank you.

Makers of KonaKart, have you considered using a revision control system for official releases of KonaKart? I would like to have the base release in something like Subversion or git so that I could easily see what changes I've made to various files, create branches, submit patches to you, etc. Then when you release the next version, I could just update my working copy instead of downloading a whole zip file, manually determining the differences, undoing and reapplying my patches, etc.

Hi, all,

I've configured a shopping cart to use a sales tax, and a percentage-based "Product Discount" promotion. When I apply the promotion via a code, the right percentage is deducted. Then, however, a sales tax is calculated on the pre-promotion total. So a customer is charged tax on the portion of product that's been discounted.

That may be how it's designed, but at least in my state of Iowa, sales tax is to be collected only on the remaining portion of the total after all promotions/deductions. Is it possible to configure KonaKart for this via the admin GUI? If not, can you point me at what to change to make the smallest number of changes to the code?

Hi, all,

I would like to figure out why the USPS module is not working. I've enabled it, provided a username, and provided the testing URL that USPS emailed me. Yet USPS never appears as a shipping method.

I figure, to determine the problem I should look at KonaKart's logs. I enabled the DEBUG level of logs everywhere I could -- log4j.properties, konakart-logging.properties, KonaKart's admin interface, etc. The path I provided in the admin interface is world-writable. Yet, no logs ever appear.

Can anyone suggest what steps I can take to narrow down (or even fix) the problem?

Hi, all,

I am using the stock KonaKart 5.2.0.0 codebase. Suppose I create a new product in the admin interface and upload between one to four images:

• uploaded1.jpg


• uploaded2.jpg


• uploaded3.jpg

I see that those images are saved to the configured images directory on the filesystem, with those exact names. I suppose I should expect that.

Then I go to KonaKart's storefront and open the product detail page. The center of the page is empty. I look a the source code and see that it tries to load images:

• uploaded1_1.jpg


• uploaded1_2.jpg


• uploaded1_3.jpg


• uploaded1_4.jpg

In other words, it ignores the images I uploaded except for the first one, then it takes the filename of the first one and inserts "_#" into the filename, # being 1--4 unconditionally. I know this is a feature because I see the code doing this explicitly, without regard for what images I uploaded.

Was KonaKart supposed to create those "_#" files when the first image was uploaded? Or, was KonaKart supposed to rename the other images I uploaded to match the generated filenames?

Right now the only way I can see to satisfy KonaKart's generated HTML is to manually create those four files and upload them to the images directory.

But that still leaves unanswered: what about images 2--4 that I uploaded? No HTML code references those.

Hi, all. With the latest version of KonaKart, I tried to modify or delete the FL tax rate of 6.0% that comes pre-loaded with the demo SQL load.

The FL rate does not appear in the "Tax Rates" page of the admin GUI -- but the GUI is aware that something is present! I am attaching a screenshot of how it appears.

Meanwhile, in the PostgreSQL database I see the FL entry in the tax_rates table.

Hi, all,

I have an existing web site for a small businesses that statically lists various products for sale. Now I'd like to add KonaKart.

Once the products are added to KonaKart, a visitor would be able to see the static lists of products, but to buy anything online, they would have to hop over to KonaKart, find the product, and add it to their cart.

I would like to add a "Add to Cart" button from the static pages. It would do the obvious. Is this possible? My expectation is that the static products would (at least initially) mirror the products added to the KonaKart database, and the "Add to Cart" button would pass a product ID to some Struts action or to a SOAP function.

To go hand-in-hand with that, I would like to be able to programmatically determine how many items are in the current user's cart to display it on the static pages. (They wouldn't be static anymore, of course.)

KonaKart's documentation has the movie review example, where a programmer dynamically adds recommended products to a JSP page. This is different from what I want because the recommended products are not based on the customer's session. My information is session-specific.

Please advise. Much appreciated.