ecommerce solution
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:40 am
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)
Thanks
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)
Thanks