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mfriesen edited this page Sep 14, 2010 · 8 revisions

Shopping Cart Plugin for CakePHP

Kaching is a shopping cart framework built as a CakePHP plugin. It is a platform developers can use create customized onlines stores.

Kaching came from a frustration of trying to use pre-built shopping cart systems that were hard to customized and locked you into doing it their way. They didn’t seem to understand that not all online stores fit into the same mold.

CakePHP was chosen to be the framework to build on, because frankly we think it’s pretty awesome.

Kaching is not for everyone. It is strictly for developer who want to build a online store and maintain full control of it. Kaching comes with a sample store, as a starting point and examples on how to use it. Then the rest it up to you.

From reading of the CakePHP groups, it is quite evident that there are lots of people trying to implement a online store using CakePHP. Kaching hopes that it can fill a gap where people don’t have to keep on starting from scratch when building their online store.

We encourage people to add on to the Kaching framework and submit new features and patches.

Kaching Requirements

  • PHP 5 or greater
  • CakePHP 1.2 or greater
  • Swift Mailer version 4.06 or greater

Kaching Features

  • Supports Multiple Stores
  • Product pricing by Store
  • Unlimited Categories / Sub Categories
  • Shipping Module: supports calculate by weight and location
  • Store Coupons
  • Paypal Website Payment Pro Support
  • Fully Developed Store Administration
  • You build the store’s look and feel

Is Kaching for You?

  • Are you a developer familiar with using CakePHP (cakephp.org)?
  • Are you frustration with other shopping carts that don’t give you enough control?

Try our Kaching Demo

iPhone App

We are currently working on the development of a Kaching iPhone app. The features we are looking at implemating are:

  • product maintenance
  • view / processing orders