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anjanesh
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ecommerce solution

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Desperately looking for a full-fledged ecommerce solution right now.

Previously I've just dealt with minor edits with osCommerce's backend functionality like updating the database from the supplier's end. Nothing fancy.

And now I've got to setup an ecommerce site that has to be fancy - in design. Because its a retail store for fashion products. I was told to use volusion - thats all he knew about. But its closed source & it seems its done in ASP/.NET which requires Windows server. So I thought of creating my own simple listing framework & minimal UI for the admin part to set up this e-shop & have the payments done through a 3rdParty service like clickbank.

But after coming across Magento, I was wondering if I should go with this - kinda like the step from phpmailer to SwiftMailer. Magento seems to have proper OOP + MVC model & is pretty neat.

But is it too early to start implementing this ? On the othed hand, OSC has more community content for troubleshooting issues & is always updated (not another frozen open-source project). But its a real pain to edit the templates.

My client is ready to pay for an ecommerce solution because we dont want something thats messy. But most paid ecommerce solutions I've come across are in Java or .NET.

What are the really good ecommerce solutions out there ? (open-source, free but closed, paid, perl, java, anything)

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Volusion appears to be a hosted solution, so you may end up not having to code anything for them at all.
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I've never used it, or looked to deeply into it, but from what I have heard Magento is nice. The code is pretty nice too from what I have poked around in.
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Re: ecommerce solution

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A review on ecommerce solutions here mentions that Magento lacks a lot of features & is a bit of a resource hog.
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anjanesh wrote:A review on ecommerce solutions here mentions that Magento lacks a lot of features & is a bit of a resource hog.
Wow I dug around a little bit.. look at http://markoshust.com/magento-requests.gif

I retract my previous statement. That's just client side too.
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