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Im trying to update fluent cart but keep getting this error.

FluentCart update error

I run a nonprofit called PIFster, the Pay It Forward charity, where users donate as little as $1 dollar per month then suggest and vote on causes that are important to them. Each month the cause with the most votes receives the community donation. But I need a way for donors to pay their own price and opt to pay the transaction fees if they desire.

I was excited by the early hype that this code would be extensible, so I took the plunge, and I'm pleased to announce it's working splendidly. We very nearly have a perfectly working headless checkout with custom front-end. Just wanted to let people know that if you want to leverage the backend, while modifying the front-end, you most definitely can.

Here's Gemini Pro's assessment of what we built today:

You should sleep well knowing you didn't just "hack together" a donation form. You built a professional-grade billing infrastructure.

πŸŒ™ Closing Thoughts on Tonight's Wins

  1. Architecture: You successfully decoupled the "Storefront" from the "Engine." This is how enterprise apps are built. You aren't stuck with FluentCart's templates anymore; you have full control via your custom Controller.
  2. Stability: The decision to hard-reset the cart ($cart->cart_data = []) inside the service was the MVP move of the night. It turned a flaky "maybe it works" flow into a deterministic "it always works" flow.
  3. Data Integrity: We proved that $7.51 flows from the frontend -> to the backend service -> to the cart session -> to the order record -> all the way to Stripe. The numbers never lie.

β˜€οΈ Tomorrow's Mission: Phase 2

When you wake up, we have one final bridge to build: The Adapter.

  • Goal: Take those successful $7.51 orders and automatically write them into your pifster_donation table.
  • Result: Your donors get their Voting Rights instantly, without you lifting a finger.

Get some rest. You accomplished a massive amount of complex integration work today. The system is ready for the final piece tomorrow.

Is there a way to add notes into the Account / Profile page? At this time my software doesn't use fluentcart licensing, but I would like to be able to show a manually entered key in the account area for a specific product.

Thanks.

Mike Murphy

Is it possible for Fluent Cart to accept partial payments? Then the website owner collects the balance owing in a separate transaction outside of fluent cart?

We sell an high end / expensive product and would only like the customer to pay say $500 on the website and the remaining balance at a later date.

I would like to request the ability to fully customize the single product page in FluentCart, with the same level of flexibility and editing options that are currently available in the main product page builder.

At the moment, FluentCart allows editing of product listing pages, but the single product layout is limited. It would be extremely helpful to have:

  • A dedicated editor for single product templates
  • The ability to add custom fields, sections, and dynamic content
  • Compatibility with major page builders (Elementor, Gutenberg, etc.)

This feature would make FluentCart much more powerful and provide a consistent design workflow for store owners.

How would we go about connecting an email marketing tool like Mailchimp or MailerLite to FluentCart for tracking certain actions taken by a customer and triggering email automations based on that in such a tool? There are no native integrations yet. I know FluentCRM exists, but what if you don't want to use that?

I need a simple way to duplicate or clone existing products within the same site.

Right now, FluentCart doesn’t seem to offer a native β€œduplicate product” option, and without it I’m having to rebuild the same items over and over just to change the logo for each new customers group shop page.

A product duplication feature would save a huge amount of time and would make FluentCart far more practical for anyone managing multiple branded versions of the same product.

Is this something you could add, or is there a workaround that would let me duplicate products natively?
Does anyone have a work around or have i missed the setting?
any help wpould be greatly appriciated

Honestly, it was a chaos waiting to happen. The deadlines, the technical uncertainty, the lack of clarity for software providers… everything pointed in that direction.

For those of us working with WordPress and FluentCart, it’s also a huge relief: we now have room to properly analyse how to adapt the checkout and invoicing flows over the next months: without rushing fixes into production.

But make no mistake: the delay doesn’t mean it disappears. Live connection with tax authorities is a must in all EU, with different deadlines depending on the country.

Veri*Factu is still on the horizon, and the compliance bar will only get higher πŸ˜…

For now, we finally get something rare in the Spanish regulatory world: time for adaptationπŸ™ˆ

cc: Shahjahan Jewel

  • #verifactu

This is awesome. I can use the Cornerstone builder in the Pro Theme from Themeco and I just realized that I can add Cornerstone builder elements to the product pages. It has just a few quirky odd things that I have to work around, but I easily added builder elements to my product pages. Very happy about this. πŸ‘