Hikashop & Akeeba

Hi

I have some questions about the integration between Hikashop & Akeeba.

I've set up both components, created my subscriptions and linked them to products in Hikashop. By the way love Hikashop and especially the CardSave integration, which is one of the main reasons I chose Hikashop. I like the fact that the subscriptions can be integrated and customers use the same component for both purchasing equipment and subscriptions.

Ok to my main question, what is the best way to handle renewals? I need my customers to checkout through Hikashop so that they use the CardSave payment plugin (Using Direct so that they stay on our site). This means though, and its an assumption on my part, that I can't use the Akeeba upgrade rules and such, as this would then have them checking out through Akeeba and thus bypass Hikashop?

I did have a thought or perhaps suggestion? Is there a way, instead of linking subscriptions to products have a plugin that forces Akeeba to checkout through Hikashop? Something like the registration plugin that forces the registration process to go through Hikashop registration page instead of the Joomla registration page? This way the power of both components could be utilised to their full?

Many thanks

Paul

Hi,

When a customer bought a product with a subscription, then when he bought this product again the subscription is renewed.
For example, product "aa" with a subscription of 1 year, if the customer bought it twice, he subscribe for 2 years.

It's not possible to have this kind of plugin, because we don't have the same data between the two components, and we can't have the akeeba products in the HikaShop orders.
But we have on our todo list the project to create our own subscription system.

Xavier wrote: It's not possible to have this kind of plugin, because we don't have the same data between the two components, and we can't have the akeeba products in the HikaShop orders.
But we have on our todo list the project to create our own subscription system.

Hi Xavier, can you be more clear on this question ?!?

Because I need to decide how to develope important projects, and infact, as you know, here I opened a topic to discuss on Akeeba Subscriptions improvements on HikaShop:
HikaShop - HikaMarket & Akeeba subscriptions

Subscription is a must and do double work is very annoying !!!

Hi Nicolas,

with "can you be more clear on this question ?!?" I was referring to:

But we have on our todo list the project to create our own subscription system.

nicolas wrote: ...adding the akeeba checkout support in the integration plugin will probably be done before...

This is a very good news! All details on it are welcome

I posted "a poll" for that, but not so much replies on it, I don'T know why, may be I'm not been able to put it in evidence (I'm still believe this feature should be a need for joomla ACL users);

I also posted "a request" on Commercial Jobs, but also there no offers yet (I'm not a programmer but I think a method like Mijo Shop do should not be complicated to be implemented)

As you suggest me I have yet done it on May. They replied me on 21 May:
"...We are very interested in your HikaShop development project. I will route this to our development team for review, and we will be back in touch in the next couple of days with either a ballpark quote..."

So, I'm waiting...

Hi Nicolas,
I never updated you simply because PolishedGeek never answered me...

Please, Do you have any news about? (May be something about HikaShop roadmap)

s there a way like mymajorcompany to subscribe ( amount of money) to see this implemented since many hikashop user need this functionnalities ?

regard's

nicolas wrote: Hi, I just sent them an email to ask them about the status of your project on their end.

I made the same yesterday.

nicolas wrote: Regarding our plans, as I said a few weeks back, we want to have our own subscription system in the future so that would then be something possible directly with it. But that's a long term project. It won't happen in a few weeks, and it won't happen in a few months.

Sure Nicolas , you've been very clear! I repeat the question thinking that, now, you are near the next HikaShop release and, may be, you re-planned next development step, knowing now well what will be included into the next release (not this one is coming) and when it will be.
I didn't made, and repeat, the question to press you. Sorry if you thought that!

nicolas wrote: Regarding the addition of the akeeba checkout support in the integration plugin, it will probably be done before and will be way simpler to do than a full subscription system as I already said. But we didn't move forward yet on that as we have other priorities at the moment (mass action, multi shipping/payment, points system, new product edition interface, setup wizard, new website, etc) and we can't do everything at the same time.
So I still encourage you to find third party developers to help you with that. PolishedGeek might not do it for you, but other developers that you could find via resources.joomla.org or joomlancers.com might be able to undertake that for you.

We are agree. So, Thinking on not do double work, but something that can be useful and developed in the future, I want ask you, please,
Can you give me any more instructions/information? Like: How the plugin have to be developed? What are the languages have to be used for?
I mean, all the informations/requests can be useful to be asked to the developer, all the feature that in your opinion have to be the must on developing, all the things that can garantee that if my customer pay for that, you won't need to repeat the work next months, but you'll be able to use it!

Always many thanks for support...

Hi Nicolas,
I sent you a PM last week.
The HikaShop / Akeeba Subscriptions Plugin is under test.
Can you help me / us ?

Hi haxx and Hi to all,

As you can read here:
www.hikashop.com/forum/2-general-talk-ab...-new-plugin-pro.html
A new Akeeba Subscriptions PRO Plugin that bring all the "Akeeba Subscriptions Features" into HikaShop is on testing!
If you want try it and help us,
please, follow that forum topic and PM me to have the access