Media/File Fulfillment

[Lucas]

have a look at oscommerce.

it should do most of this for you.

[shayward]

I'll take another run at this

Mother-in-law is using TD Bank for her e-store but it doesn't support fulfillment of files purchased. It's meant for firm goods and services. So there is no way to add file fulfillment to that e-store at all.

For each purchase, TD Bank's e-store generates an email (maybe even an XML attachment) and sends it to the email address of our choosing. This email includes the email address of the customer and the SKUs ordered.

So... my only way of obtaining information from TD Bank on what was ordered is to use POP3 (or another email protocol) to download email from the email account where TD Bank sent the order information.

The TD Bank e-store is a completely closed solution. No scripting, no web pages, no databases, nada.

So regardless of what I do, I must be able to download order information over email. That is the only way to obtain information from the e-store. They provide no other APIs.

Clear as mud?

[alxconn]

Well, sounds like you could create any kind of an application (desktop is probably easier) to run from time to time (every 5-15 mins) and parse the mailbox.

So far as getting the POP3 access, why not use ReadyPOP for .NET? http://www.readypop.com/

Then, you can parse the mailbox, fetch the emails and deliver the products.

If you wanted to take things a bit further, you could go for secure delivery URLs using SimpleCDN's API.

http://www.simplecdn.com/help/api#udl