Google Checkout is a good alternative to PayPal for many businesses. If you own an eCommerce website, selling physical goods or digital downloads, you would in most cases want to support both if not more options. Other payments options that are popular are Moneybookers, Amazon Flexible Payments and of course Credit card acceptance through one of the many merchant processing options.
The Flex Google Shopping cart allows you to accept Google Checkout as a payment option from your Flex website. It uses the Google HTML Name-Value pair API to post the contents of your shopping cart to Google. The cart comes with a rudimentary Product display and examples on how call the Shopping Cart add/delete/update methods.
Clean effects and a lot of useful Ecommerce functionality make this one of the best Flex Google shopping carts in the market.
Dynamic and innovative UI components in Flex do not have to depend on a timeline (read Flash) for playing those effects. A pure Actionscript component that uses the effects and easing classes can produce the same lively and interactive look and feel that Flash components so ably provide.
Take for example this Flex Image Accordion component. Take an image, add it to the component, define an easing function and some alternate text, configure the slices and angle and you have a more dynamic image which when clicked rolls up in the shape of a window blind. The bounce easing function even adds a touch of realism to the component with a gravity-like bounce.
Since this is an Actionscript component, it will work with Flash Builder 4 as well as with Flex 3 (SDK 3.4 or better required) and Flash player 10. A more detailed live preview of this component can be found by clicking here.
For now, just click on the image of the rose in the embedded swf below to taste this effect.
Ever since Adobe engineers posted a Flex based Shopping Cart Sample application, the market for Flex cased websites engaged in Ecommerce has shown a significant growth. What was missing in Adobe’s sample Ecommerce applications was integration to a back-end Payments Processing Gateway like PayPal, Google checkout or Merchant Credit card processing system. The Flex PayPal Shopping cart bridges this gap with an easy to use Shopping Cart that integrates with PayPal using the PayPal Upload cart API. The cart comes with a rudimentary Product display and examples on how call the Shopping Cart add/delete/update methods.
Clean effects and a lot of useful Ecommerce functionality make this one of the best Flex 4 PayPal shopping carts in the market. Still running Flex 3.x? No problem, Flex 3 is supported as well!
