SMF Shop Wish List and suggestions

[chodhry]

Well Dan, it may be really long but I really love this mod and would like it to be the best shop mod for any forum ever built. So lets get started on the list.

- Catagories/Sub Catagories for easy management of growing shop.
(I have 6 pages of item) (May be you could use same functionality Bloc is using to create unlimited catagories/subcatagories in articles and download section)

- Catagory thumbnails, Item thumbnails
(May be an option to upload a thumbnail image or choose from a folder (as we already have) while creating a catagory or creating an item.

Item send as a gift or trade item
That I can see already done. but may be add some more work into it and let them exchange items with each other.

- Ability for the member to add their own items.
Now this could be the ultimate feature of the Shop. I dont know any other forum shop which can let memebrs add their own items to the forum shop. Forum owner can get a set percentage (set by admin) of each memebr item sold.

Bank Account as an item
Well the thing bothers me th emost are members who just come for a few days, gather credits/points/bucks and put them in the bank and then never come back or when they come back their amount has already been grown without any of their effort. Now let's think of another item. bank item. I know it will require advance leve of cron tab handelling but  hey it would be worth each and every second spent on it.
It will work as follows:

- User will have to pay an "X" amount (set by shop admin) for opening account(s) in the bank.
- Account type could be a long term fixed deposit or current.
- Long term depost may be of different terms set by the shop admin or for simplicity you can add a 3, 6, 12 months LTF depost accounts.
- Interest rate for current deposit and long term deposits should be set by shop admin.
- Long term fixed deposit will hold your money for that much time. User would not be able to withdraw money before the term and will gain a comparitvely high interest amount each month untill the term ends. If he wants to withdraw before the term a percentage (set by shop admin) of amount will be deducted from his money.
- Current deposits interest will be on daily basis and user will be required to make "X" (set by shop admin) number of daily posts or else he will not get any interest in that day.
- LTF account interest will be set on monthly basis and user will be required to make "X" (set by shop admin) number of monthly posts or else he will not get any interest in that month.
- User will have the option to open only one account of each type. That is 1 current, 1 3 months LTF, One 6 months LTF, One 12 Months LTF. So a maximum of 4 accounts per user.

Bank account item if handdeled properly can really boost the traffic of a forum to many folds.

Bank Loan Item
A member could apply for loan. Approval and amount can be calculated by a simple forumula based on the posts and karma points combination or he will be able to apply an upto 70% loan amount  against a fixed term deposit. Interest rate will be determined by shop admin. Formula for the karma points and post combination could be something like this.
- A minimum of 25 karma points
- A minimum of 100 posts
- Now multiply the karma with posts divded by X (set by shop admin) and you get the maximum limit of loan amount.
- Loan will be paid back in 3, 6, 12 months equal installments.
- Interest rae will be set by shop admin. Generally the longer the payback perios more interest rate it would be.

Ok, wish list ended now we start the suggestion list its not a big one.

- A "pm" to the user when he receivs the money. rightnow it only sends an email to the user at the monent.
- Money of Items sold in "buy stuff" section should automatically go into the admin account.
- A donate money link in the left coulmn where inventory link appears as most of the time we are sending money to the users instead of looking into their inventory so it would really be nice if we could change it to a link to send money to that particular user with its name automatically filled in the send money form same as its being implemented in vBulleiten Shop.

ok thats it for rightnow, may add more to both lists. but till then,

bye bye.
chodhry

[Daniel15]

Wow! That's a long post! I'll consider adding some of the things you requested, but only once I get more spare time

Well the thing bothers me th emost are members who just come for a few days, gather credits/points/bucks and put them in the bank and then never come back or when they come back their amount has already been grown without any of their effort.

Well, a planned feature in the next version is a minimum deposit amount (I've actually already coded this). Basically, a user needs to deposit a minimum amount.

A "pm" to the user when he receivs the money. rightnow it only sends an email to the user at the monent.

I was going to do that, I just need  to find out how to send a PM via code in SMF 1.0 (SMF 1.0 is the SMF release I'm mainly focused on)

[chodhry]

Well minimum deposit is a good thing but most of the time you give away some free credits/bucks to register and some easy options to earn more money on the site for new users. User will avail those options, keep the money in the bank and will only come back after months. and On the other hand if you could only implement the option of earning interest only if your post count is increasing to a certain amount. May be a simple thing of rememebring the last post count and comparing it with the current when adding interest. If the difference is greater than to a certain amount add interest otherwise not. A second thing could be a total number of posts. While adding interest it will check total number of posts and if that is greater than a specified number then do the interest otherwise not.

Looking forward to see these features implemented.