You should read the German tutorial or the book 'Der TYPO3 Webshop' before you start with it.
This document is for version 2.5.1 of tt_products.
You can get newer and more enhanced versions under http://ttproducts.de if you sponsor this project.
A German translation of this document is available under the extension key doc_ttproducts_de. A French translation is under development at doc_ttproducts_fr.
If you upgrade from Version 1.2.7 you have to do all the administrative steps under the topic 'Important'.
Starting with December 1st 2006 PHP5 can become a requirement for new versions.
The Typo3 shop extension gives you the facility for...
Product listings with multiple images, details and languages
Shopping basket
Payment page - The orders will be indicated and can be checked over before the products are finalized.
sponsors only: Payment gateways with Payment Library extension - Paypal and Transaction Central
Tracking customers order status
Automatic creation of bill and delivery sheet
Different tax percentages per item, shipping and payment
basic stock management
Send a CSV for each order to the shop admin (2 choosable file formats)
E-Mail-Attachments for the confirmation mails (for example AGB in German = General trading conditions)
choosable item variants (colors, sizes, gradings and description by default)
Force customer to accept the General trading conditions (AGB) per checkbox
Offers, highlights and newly added items
Special preparation, weight and bulkily (can be used to calculate the shipping fee)
Ability to limit payment methods to specific user groups
Automatic creation of frontend users at first order
Remember items in a memo, when a user is logged in
Discount percentage per user
Some methods for price calculation with rebate for resellers
Display orders: order can be displayed on per fe-user basis (CODE=ORDERS)
Creditpoint system: customers can save credit points per each order. Saved points will give them a discount for newer orders or certain products can be "bought" with these points.
Voucher system: if a new customer indicates when registrating that she/he was tipped by another existing customer, this customers gets a credit point bonus. The new customer gets a discount on first order.
Gift certificate: Users can buy certificates and send them as gifts to their friends. After signing on as front end users they can transform their gift certificates into creditpoints.
Kasper Skårhøj: first developer 1.2.7 / TYPO3 3.8
René Fritz: first developer 1.2.7 / TYPO3 3.8
Franz Holzinger (trainer): price calculation, discount price, gift certificates, e-mail table for notification, error correction, billing, receipts, multi-column listings, product/articles tables, multiple languages
Klaus Zierer (trainer of zk_products): more sizes and colors, entry lists, automatic registration of front-end users, category pages. In zk_products you can find a good example shop template.
Milosz Klosowicz (trainer of mkl_products): polyglot charts and various safeguards
Els Verberne: Credit point system and voucher system, Order lists
The development of gift coupons was carried out by Franz Holzinger. It was sponsored by BENDOO e-work solutions of the Netherlands (http://www.bendoo.nl). For more information contact BENDOO at hiddink@bendoo.com.
The shopping of articles without attributes from a product, the category select box, the image naming using parts of table field entries and the DAM table, and the shipping setup using the static_countries table was carried out by Franz Holzinger. It was sponsored by pr!int - public relations & internet, Spiegelberg / Germany (http://www.pr-int.biz). For more information contact pr!int at office@pr-int.biz.
tt_products is a Open Source shop system. You can use it without any need to make payments to someone. However a lot of work has been necessary to make this shop system working fine, get the errors corrected as soon as possible, write the documentations, give online support to users and to implement new features.
Work done in 2005:
The multilingual tables, translation of templates, the integration of zk_products and parts of mkl_products, a better documentation and a German tutorial, code improvements and corrections and a lot of support has been given to you on the tt_products mailinglist and on various TYPO3 forums.
You can see on the source code CVS repository at http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/typo3xdev/tx_ttproducts/trunk/ the contributions to the source code.
You shall contact these people to give them a refund for their work or ask them to improve tt_products:
Franz Holzinger <kontakt@fholzinger.com>: http://fholzinger.com Tel +49 (0) 221 7592169
Jens Schmietendorf <jens@smedja.com>: http://webb.smedja.com, Tel +46 (0) 471 22102
Els Verberne <verberne@bendoo.nl>: BENDOO e-work solutions http://www.bendoo.nl, Tel +31 (0) 315 244525
If you are a programmer and have written your own enhancements of tt_products, you are invited to send the code to Franz Holzinger. If the code is of general use for others, he might make some changes to your code and release it with the next version of tt_products.
You can get support for this extension at http://jambage.com/index.php?id=162 or on other places in the internet.
You can download all needed extensions from the TYPO3 TER, http://typo3.org or from http://jambage.com/index.php?id=170 .
