Hi I was wondering if anyone has been able to integrate Opencart into their apps? It would be good to have an integrated shopping experience I can link up to a system. (I have full admin rights to the system is req'd.) Thanks Ed

Probably not, as Apple at least would require everything to go through their in app purchases (thus taking 30%), or opening in an external browser and not be allowed inside the app. For Android, I don't think there would be an issue.

@Angry Ninja, How do eBay do it then? Is there a way around it?

After looking into it more, physical items are not allowed via in-app purchase, so they may have changed their rules. It looks like if your item is digital, app related, a subscription, or a physical product that is delivered via digital methods (i.e. email delivered ebooks), then you have to use the in-app purchase. I can't find anything in apples documentation that says it's acceptable to list physical goods for sale, but nothing that says it isn't allowed either, so thats good news I think. But as far as opencart specifically, I've never played with it. ebay would have gotten around any of the previous rules because they are not the direct seller. The auctions the list are person-to-person, and ebay themselves is not selling the product... just like the black friday sales apps you see around christmas time... they only list the stores black friday deals, they are not selling the products directly. But still, looks like the rules have changed anyways :)

Looks like opencart would be fine with apple... read the discussion here: http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/business-legal-app-store/104727-selling-physical-goods-via-an-app.html

It would be better to just have opencart on a webpage, then have a button on your app,that leaves your app and opens safari to your webpage.Otherwise you'll only get 70 percent of your sales, and on top of that apple will take that 70 percent they gave you.