Intergration Senario

[45South]

To Mazhar

I would like to put a Senario forward to get my point across.

Say for example Ablecommerce had put many years of development into a non commerce based web application, it may incorporate a forum, and many member based services that all use the same member table login and registration.

You then decide to purchase a shopping cart with its own member table login and registration. Now you have two member tables, logins and registration points.

I imagine many clients buying you AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software are in this situation.

1. What advice do you give clients in this situation?
2. Is the applicable source code available with you software to allow your clients to integrate your shop into their own application?

Another example would be this AbleCommerce forum for example. I had to register for this forum to allow me to post, if I then decide to by one of you shopping cart would I then register again with exactly the same details just to buy the cart?

Cheers

[45South]

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[keats76]

Haven't looked into it in a while, but you could always purchase the source and then roll your own user authentication. I'm not sure if they allow you to do that out of the box though.

[Logan Rhodehamel]

Haven't looked into it in a while, but you could always purchase the source and then roll your own user authentication. I'm not sure if they allow you to do that out of the box though.

You can even do this out of the box, in most cases without source although source in this case is very helpful for reference purposes. There have been a few people in the past who've asked on how to achieve single sign on using AbleCommerce. It's important to note that we use the Microsoft Membership provider APIs for our user database. However, we don't use the stock microsoft providers because (for one) they would not allow us to achieve PCI compliance. Instead we have created customized providers.

There are many ways to go about reaching a single sign on - it really depends on the other softwares you are trying to integrate.

[45South]

Thanks for your replies.

Very Helpful