Has anyone tried to combine PODs on their website?

Posts : 5 Join date : 2009-05-20

I currently have a shop at the 3 larger PODs (CP, zazzle, & SS) looking to push the spreadshirt shop as more of the main pod when i get my domain up and running, but I'm curious how one goes about combning all three pods on your own domain? Are their shopping cart software that will combine the 3 shoping carts for the customer? Is it better to just leave the 3 seperate on your site?

I run into the following questions to myself when brainstorming the idea:

1. If a customer comes and buy 1 tee from CP, 2 from SS, and a hat from zazzle...they will have to checkout 3 times.

2. Is their software that can display all 3 pod shopping carts on one page?

Basically I'm trying to find a way to combine all 3 pods on one site to keep the customer on my domain as oposed to one of the pods.

Posts : 159 Join date : 2009-04-25 Location : Mississippi

Wow, that's exactly the same thing I've been trying to figure out. I'm going to be doing the same thing with three PODs and I was wondering about the shopping cart thing, too. I hope there is a solution. Glad you put this in the forum, notoriousapparel.

There was a similar question asked over in CP's Chit Chat area. . .and I believe it was Teesed that answered, saying he didn't have any problems reported by customers using whatever Shopping Cart went with whatever design. . .and that Internet Shoppers were mostly sophisticated enough to utilize separate carts for different products. He runs Many Affiliate Sites, as many of you know. . .

BUT, that said: AND I would love it if there were a way to combine everything into one shopping cart, except that if different places: CP, Zazzle, Printfection, Etc. were doing the fulfillment, don't you think it would be totally IMPOSSIBLE to put it all into one cart, Buy it, then have some sort of programming go in and sort it all back out again to send it to the proper fulfillment house?????

Yeah, I don't think so. . . Suspect

Ann K.

Posts : 159 Join date : 2009-04-25 Location : Mississippi

Do you think it would be a wise idea to say, these products come from my Zazzle shop, CP shop, etc. so the customers know it might not have a common shopping cart?

Posts : 5 Join date : 2009-05-20

yes the more i think about it the more it makes sense. i never take into factor internet shopper compared to retail shoppers, then again now that i look at it even a customer at the mall makes multiple transactions at different stores. in my case stores being zazzle, CP, SS, etc. and my site being the mall.

I was doing this for a while with spreadshirt/cafepress and imagekind all on my front page at the same time.

I just included a line that said something along the lines of "Please Note:In order to give my customers the widest choice of quality merchandise I use the fulfilment services of each of the above suppliers. Each supplier has a seperate shopping cart that cannot be combined with the others" etc..blah blah or something like that anyway

Seemed to work sunny

Posts : 159 Join date : 2009-04-25 Location : Mississippi

Specialeetees wrote:: I was doing this for a while with spreadshirt/cafepress and imagekind all on my front page at the same time.

I just included a line that said something along the lines of "Please Note:In order to give my customers the widest choice of quality merchandise I use the fulfilment services of each of the above suppliers. Each supplier has a seperate shopping cart that cannot be combined with the others" etc..blah blah or something like that anyway

Seemed to work

Thanks, I'll do something like that. flower