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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 07:08
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I have a collection of photos of runners in local marathons and races that are organised through our local club. I'd like to be able to use ubercart to sell photos, which can be ordered as framed prints, a mug, or a calendar.

The user journey would be something like:

User arrives on homepage and clicks 'event photos'
The 'event photos' page is a listing of all events. User clicks on an event and is taken to the photo listing page.
The photo listing page shows all photos that were taken at the event. They find one of them, and click to be taken to the detail page.
The detail page shows the the photo thumbnail and can click to see a larger version.
This page needs to allow the user to order either a framed version (in multiple sizes, eg 6x4, 5x7, 8x6) and/or a printed photo (no frame), a ceramic mug, a jigsaw and a mouse mat.

How would you recommend i achieve this using ubercart?

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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 07:45
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Re: Selling personalised framed prints, mugs, calendars etc

Use taxonomy then setup ubercart Cart Links is one way.

Cart Links create specialized links to purchase products from other nodes.

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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 08:01
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Re: Re: Selling personalised framed prints, mugs, calendars etc

thanks for the suggestion. Ideally I'd like to only have to upload the photo once (so, create one product) and then have the available options like mug, calendar, framed, etc automatically created.

With the Cart Links/taxonomy suggestion, would I need to create an ubercart product for each variant of each photo?

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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 10:39
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Re: Re: Re: Selling personalised framed prints, mugs, calendars

Maybe I'm misunderstanding? Are you looking for something like what zazzle, cafepress offers?

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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 10:58
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Selling personalised framed prints, mugs, calend

Zazzle and Cafepress enable users to upload their photo and have it printed on to a tshirt/mug/calendar etc. This is different to what my site will be selling. I will pre-upload the photos, the shoppers do not upload.

I have hundreds of photos of runners taken at events. I will upload the photos to my site, and the runners will find a photo of them and order a mug or calendar or print from me.

Kinda similar to this site:
http://www.marathon-photos.com/

So, ideally, I only have to upload each photo once. Ubercart then enables users to order a mug, calendar, print, frame etc for their selected photo.

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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 11:45
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Selling personalised framed prints, mugs, ca

Check out

http://drupal.org/project/uc_option_image

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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 15:05
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Selling personalised framed prints, mugs

thanks for all your help so far Smiling i don't think i'm doing a very good job of explaining myself properly!!

I don't see how attributes would work. I basically want to display a number of products (sub-products?) within the one page. I've attached a screenshot that shows the kind of thing I would like...

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Thu, 10/14/2010 - 14:20
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Selling photos via Drupal site

Hi nicrodgers, I am just very curious, if you have found a solution for your task with Drupal? I am solving now a similar problem. Need to build a photo - e-commerce site with similar functionality, as www.marathon-photos.com mentioned by you and trying to select the right tools... thanks in advance.

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Thu, 10/14/2010 - 15:34
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Why won't attributes work for you? When you create your attributes, you can assign a unique price as well.

So in your case, your product is the photo. Your attributes are mug, calendar, print, then you set up your options for each attribute that each have their own price assignment.

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