Add Cart Feature to Resources

[CreeperCry]

Say you want to buy 10 resources. I think it'd be really nice to have a cart where instead of directly purchasing each and every resource and going through PayPal each time, we could have a cart feature to simply add the resource to your cart and purchase them all via one payment.

 

[Maddy]

Omg how is this not a thing

 

[Areeb]

Realistically would you purchase more than 10 resources in one go?

 

[CreeperCry]

Areeb, yes. I actually suggested it because I'm doing it right now. It would still be a useful feature to have around.

 

[TBK]

Sounds good however I don't think it will be possible due to all paypals being different. This would really only work when your buying more than 1 resource from the same user.

 

[CreeperCry]

That's true. Who knows, still might be a viable option, maybe not.

 

[Sloth]

Realistically would you purchase more than 10 resources in one go?

If somebody wanted to then why not? A vast majority of marketplaces have the ability to add items to a cart. This is such a fundamental feature that I'm surprised it hasn't already been added.

 

[Tommy W]

To all the people saying it isn't possible due to people having different PayPals, you can do it with the PayPal API, it's relatively easy.

 

[Joshua C]

Sounds good however I don't think it will be possible due to all paypals being different. This would really only work when your buying more than 1 resource from the same user.

Just apply the payment API to of the Author's so it would be like


paypal_email = {author_} or however the resource addon has it set up, it will easy to do this.
This is something what eBay and Amazon and all those guys do.

You get paid, they hold the payment, let the item go and then release the payment.

 

[CreeperCry]

Joshua C, oh cool, didn't know that was possible!

 

[ThaMango]

Great suggestion - for anyone questioning the usefulness of this builds could certainly utilise this - seeing as anyone looking for minigame maps will certainly be buying more than one.

 

[Ghast]

This, considering how much development Mc-Market already has to do, is a good suggestion but impossible for the nearby future.

 

[901cosmic]

This, considering how much development Mc-Market already has to do, is a good suggestion but impossible for the nearby future.

Nothing is impossible, if they get their priorities straight, and some more developers

 

[CreeperCry]

You could do it using Parallel or Adaptive Payments but it really wouldn't be worth MC-Market adding such a feature because of the list of things which require higher priority. Adding this would require us to completely re-code the payment checkout which wouldn't be easy and would take a long time

I agree. It makes sense, but other things have higher priority. Overall, I think it should be added, just not yet.

 

[Mick]

I can definitely see the appeal of us implementing this, however, I believe that the cost of us custom developing this (both time and money) outweigh the benefits that this would add. We have tonnes of custom development in our queue to do that is simply a higher priority than this so we’d never end up finding the time to develop this.

Additionally, at the moment we aren't planning to do any more development for our site until we can migrate to XF2 since we'll have to rewrite everything then.

Denied, thanks for the suggestion