eStore – Creating products and discounts from external source

[glondono]

I have an internal system with classes (behave as products) and discounts that apply to each class. Also, each class have a donate button that needs to be tracked per class.

Is clear that eStore do not provide an extenal API for this kind of integration but I’m looking two possible scenarios:

1. Create a custom WP plugin that will query the external source and add the add to cart button for each class.

2. Create a WP page that when call will query the external source and insert discounts and classes into the eStore own products and discount tables.

Scenario 1 will be easy to build but discount and donation will require extending the plugin code itself to handle this specific situation.

Scenario 2 will be a cleaner implementation (no code change) but I’m not sure if there is the functions needed in PHP to add products and discounts.

I appreciate the help on this matter.

Regards

[admin]

Couldn’t you create an eStore product for each of your external products? Then you would just sell the eStore product (which corresponds to a class) from your site. This way you won’t need to have a complex system that needs to query the external system all the time.

[glondono]

Classes get created all the time and does also have limited duration, so we also need to remove classes that are already done. Definitely a manual process for this integration is out of the picture, we are talking about 100-200 classes in a year.

Thanks for you help

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