open source ecommerce platform
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- FixMiller
What would be your choice for something like 2000 products with updates about once/month ?
I was looking at magento(community version) and oscomerce.
Never done something like this so i would appreciate some opinions.
- airey0
as always it would depend on budget and your level of competence with particular software / code.
there's a few options you could use without a lot of knowledge (like shopify etc) and then you can choose one of the others easily enough and look into online hiring sites like odesk for programmers. take a look through them first and get a feeling for the pricing average for each platform.
a lot of cms has ecomm plugins so you could easily use wordpress even (especially since it's on 2.8 and the upgrade is amazing).
- vaxorcist0
2000 products with monthly updates should be easy for most packages... but the real question is how they're setup? For example, do you stock things like clothes, which come in sizes and colors, etc?
Do you have to deal with inventory changes both from a store and a website affecting each other? i.e. if you sell x in the store, you have to have it subtracted from web inventory?
Magento is supposed to be slow, a bit of a resource-hog... and somewhat difficult to work with outside of its original design assumptions, but quite nice looking if you stay within it's usual way of doing things. I haven't used it for anything except experimentation.
OScommerce I haven't used in a while, but it was straightforward, if not too slick-looking at the time I used it....
? Is it a low-volume boutique-like business? i.e. look/feel is most important, scalability maybe not so much.. or is it more likely to need speed and simplicity more than nice look/feel? Client buy-in is a major thing, as they will have to be more active participants than usual, writing product descriptions, entering inventory, and other less-glamorous things, unless you can hire some people to do that...
- airey0
and stay well clear of zencart. it blows harder than ukit's mum when the navy's in town.
- FixMiller0
Wow.. that was quick.
well, i'm not that keen with php/css. I do have a strong AS3 background (answering the knowledge question)
I'm not even sure on how will this integrate with a inventory, the client just gave me a short brief to ask me if I can do it.
The shop would sell beauty products so I guess it would have to be skinable.
- FixMiller0
that wordpress + OS pluggin solution sounds interesting. I'll have to do some research. tnx airey