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[dgent]

Here's one of our TRIAL SITES for vendingbox on Facebook.

That vendingbox app is simply a Flash made store in an iframe. Can't use that.

[schoolboy]

Please don't misunderstand me... I am NOT advertising vendinbox... I am just pointing out how the User Experience needs to be considered ABOVE any software system.

From a MARKETING point of view, and in terms of what is labelled UX in internet terms, your system is very clunky and potentially confusing. Instead of simplifying the purchase process via Social Media, it is making it more complicated and confusing.

This means (to us anyway) that it is not a good idea to use it.

[schoolboy]

That vendingbox app is simply a Flash made store in an iframe. Can't use that.

That's why we've got it on TRIAL right now. Though it is interesting to see that in the last 4 months, that app has resulted in about 30% of sales for Therapeutix... and the graph is steadily rising.

This suggests that embedded Social Media shops are definitely the way to go... I'll leave the sfotware up to others, but it can't be ignored.

Key must be that the whole shopping experience happens within the SM environment.

[dgent]

The most important thing, is these apps work on a phone, which none of them do as the Facebook phone app / mobile version doesnt show embedded FB apps.

[deshou]

Hi, I'm using Zen Cart 1.39h and received this error: ERROR: Cannot execute because table admin_pages does not exist. CHECK PREFIXES! What have I done wrong?

[brightsoftware]

The most recent version is for ZenCart v1.5, as a new database tables entry is required during installation. However the new entry is the last item in the list so if the other SQL statements completed successfully it should still work.

If not please download version 2.0, dated 22 Nov 2011 from the module page:
http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1256

[enigma666666]

I installed this today and imo it's really an awesome application, I especially like the fact that people will be redirected to my store to finalize the sale. I have encountered one issue though which I need some help with. I have a few disabled categories with products and these producst are showing up on the facebook store. How can I stop disabled categories and products from appearing on the fb store page?

[enigma666666]

One more question..my out of stock items are appearing on the feed as well, despite the stock being set to zero. How to prevent this from happening?

[enigma666666]

Apologies, I had to restore my site yesterday and seems disabled categories were enabled in the process, hence the products appearing the feed, so that issue is now resolved. I now only need assistance with the out of stock items appearing in the feed.

[brightsoftware]

Hi,

Happy to hear you resolved the categories issue. As for out of stock there is an option in the "Admin Mode" of the Facebook app that allows you to choose whether out of stock products appear or not. Please make sure "Display in-stock only (e.g. stock quantity > 0)" in the setting tab is ticked. After saving the settings the products should disappear.

Regards

Bright Software Solutions