eBay integration for X-Cart by Kosmos Central

albertchui · #51 05-29-2013, 11:49 AM

i have been using this mod for a while and paying the subscription now, however there are many bugs that has not been solved:

1. thumbnail and not be generated and show error code 37 after add new item, i contacted xcart support, they said it was caused by ebay integration mod and refuse to fix it.

2. recently it upload the same item couple time after run the cron job ebay_upload_products and let me violate ebay rules of duplicate listing every day.

it seem xcart support do not provide any support for this mod, nor kosmoscentral unless you pay to fix their bug. does anyone using this mod has similar problem and any advise, many thanks

albert

bedstar · #52 06-06-2013, 02:42 AM

Hi

Can the ebay mod upload products to ebay when the stock level is 0? we have a number of products that are drop shipped and in our system the stock level is set to 0 for these, Is there any setting i can change so i can add these products to ebay or so i have to manipulate the stock level?

regards

john

philrisk · #53 08-01-2013, 05:33 AM

I was concerned about the reviews of this module. It has the worst install reviews possible. I bit the bullet as I really need it. Guess what it doesnt work. I have installed the trial. When I click on connect my ebay store I get.

The website encountered an error while retrieving https://xxx/admin/configuration.php?option=eBay_Inventory_Manager&ri ght. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Error code: 500

Anyone else get this problem and know a fix?

albertchui · #54 08-01-2013, 08:22 AM

the mod supplier will never provide support and solution, there are many problems and will suck a lot of memory of your server, i have cancel the subscription.

philrisk · #55 08-02-2013, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by albertchui

the mod supplier will never provide support and solution, there are many problems and will suck a lot of memory of your server, i have cancel the subscription.

I have raised a ticket to see what their response is. I hope their bad rep is not true.

philrisk · #56 08-22-2013, 03:11 AM

UPDATE: I have the mod installed and working correctly. The only problem now is that the XML created when you upload a product doesnt like "&" in the text. The problem with that is I have extra field set up to map my Google shopping categories and they contain "&" and cannot be removed. If I can get it to ignore extra fields that would be great.

Acquamarina · #57 08-22-2013, 04:12 AM

Hi, Phil,

Not sure about it ignoring the & in extra fields but you can remove the extra field altogether by removing the word "ebay" from the extra field Service Name.

I want the extra fields for Item Specifics so I just made them all visible on the customer side for a short while why I manually searched and edited all extra fields related to the xml file. It has been a lot of editing but it is worthy it to me.

It would certainly be easier if the & was not a problem. However, I am not a programmer and do not have access to the encrypted file so "creative solutions" are my specialty!

philrisk · #58 08-22-2013, 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Acquamarina

Hi, Phil,

Not sure about it ignoring the & in extra fields but you can remove the extra field altogether by removing the word "ebay" from the extra field Service Name.

I want the extra fields for Item Specifics so I just made them all visible on the customer side for a short while why I manually searched and edited all extra fields related to the xml file. It has been a lot of editing but it is worthy it to me.

It would certainly be easier if the & was not a problem. However, I am not a programmer and do not have access to the encrypted file so "creative solutions" are my specialty!

It doesn't have ebay in the Service Name. The extra field is for something completely different from this mod and has to be there.

cflsystems · #59 08-22-2013, 10:07 AM

You cannot use some of the special characters as such in an xml document. They have to be converted to html code. So "&" will have to be "&" - then it will work properly. You can try by either modifying your extra field entry to replace "&" with "&" or the module generator will have to escape all special characters to html code (which it should do by default by the way)

philrisk · #60 08-22-2013, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by cflsystems

You cannot use some of the special characters as such in an xml document. They have to be converted to html code. So "&" will have to be "&" - then it will work properly. You can try by either modifying your extra field entry to replace "&" with "&" or the module generator will have to escape all special characters to html code (which it should do by default by the way)

I converted them all to & which fixed the problem. Only issue I have now is that it includes all extra fields in the item specifics. even if its extra fields that are set not to show the customer. I have Cost Price in an extra field. Don't want that showing!!! I contacted Kosmos and he said it was not a bug and would be custom work to finish the extra field useage properly!