mobile ecommerce app linked to online database of products

Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:23 pm

Hello,

I would like to create a mobile ecommerce app that houses hundreds, soon to be thousands of products - (wines from around the world), via an online database for purchase. In a nutshell, here is the vision of the app:

after downloading the app that I create using Appery.io, onto Apple, Google Play store
user sees a bottle of wine he/she would like to purchase and have shipped to his door
scan the barcode with the upc scanner that is assigned to the bottle,
send TO CART either for purchase or kept in cart til a later time
get confirmation that either the product has been purchased or in cart, or shipped

here is the actual ecommerce page that will need to be in the app structure: http://store.nexternal.com/pnwc/world...

It can be viewed in mobile on a device but the data is stored on the Nexternal database. Please let me know if this can be done.

Thanks in advance
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Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:54 pm

Hello! Appery.io is a mobile app builder, you can build HTML5 and hybrid (PhoneGap) mobile apps. So, you can build anything you want, including in-app billing functionality. Here is more information: http://docs.appery.io/getting-started/. You are always starting with HTML5 mobile app so you can do anything the mobile browser supports. Please note that database would need to be exposed via REST API. By the way Appery.io provides back-end services (DB, Push, server-side code).

Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:59 pm

Thank you so much. However what exactly does it mean that the online db will need to be exposed via REST API? Will the db be hackable? Please explain in simple terms.

Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:04 pm

To connect your app to DB it needs to have REST API so you can easily access DB via REST services. Please check this information http://docs.appery.io/getting-started/.

Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:15 pm

So my db host uses an xml tool to parse data to be used for an app. Would that work with the REST API?

Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:22 pm

Sorry, not sure I understand. Could you tell us how do you make request to your DB. You can post example of request and response (if it's private information you can send it to a href="mailto:support@appery.io" rel="nofollow"support@appery.io/a)

Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:24 pm

....or can I import an existing database into the app builder?

Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:35 pm

Here is the flow of how I hope the app will work:

after downloading the app that I create using Appery.io, onto Apple, Google Play store
user sees a bottle of wine he/she would like to purchase and have shipped to his door
scan the barcode on the bottle with the upc that is assigned to the bottle and in the online database of products,
send TO CART either for purchase or kept in cart til a later time
get confirmation that either the product has been purchased or in cart, or shipped

here is the actual ecommerce page that will need to be in the app structure: http://store.nexternal.com/pnwc/world...

Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:39 pm

It depends on your DB and relationship between tables. Take a look here http://docs.appery.io/documentation/b...

Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:44 pm

This will basically be a mobile shopping cart app for wines across the world.