Awesome Developer Challenge Submission: Store + Shopping Cart

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: January 7, 2009

The developer challenge is still in full swing, and I’ve just spotted a great submission by Ritesh Gupta. It had a simple description “A shopping cart” – and it’s pretty impressive.

You can check out the running application here – that’s a nice thing about Force.com Sites, it lets you just point to running applications.

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The application lets you browse or search various categories of items. It also allows you to sign in, implements a shopping cart, reviews, and more. I suspect the sign-in comes from Portal. (Perhaps Ritesh can tell us how he implemented the sign-in in the blog post comments.) It’s a great application of Force.com Sites technology.

The deadline for submission is January 30 – so there’s still plenty of time to develop your application(s). And of course, your apps don’t have to be as advanced as Ritesh’s application – the developer challenge guide points to a number of simpler projects that you can tackle. Drop by the developer challenge discussion board if you have any problems.

Good luck!

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  • http://profile.typekey.com/kpatel/ Kavindra Patel

    Ritesh, great job on building this app. Just wondering what other features you plan on adding for your next rev. :-)
    All the best to you.

  • Ritesh Gupta

    Jon,Thanks very much for featuring my entry.
    As you have guessed,the sign in has been implemented by creating a customer portal and enabling login on site.

  • Les Clark

    Ritesh, Great site, i appreciate that you used the customer portal to log on. I’m looking for similar functionality but don’t you have to use a portal licence for each new logon ?

  • Bulent

    Sites integrates with Portals for authentication and registration. Each new registration will create a new portal user (and use a new portal license). There are different ways you can purchase portal licenses; based on number of logins and based on number of users.
    Other approach is to provide anonymous checkout feature where visitors won’t be able to come back, login and check their order statuses.

  • Les Clark

    Thanks, that’s what I thought. I’m struggling to get info re portal licences from my AE – does anyone have any more info on this, or managed to purchase licenses that support a b2c model.

  • Michał Szewczyk

    Ritesh , could you tell my what type of component you use to present product with photo and additional info ?

  • http://www.artocommerce.com Shopping Cart

    yes you are rite that developer challenges are keep on increasing