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I’m in the running for site that will need an e-shop and would like to have recommendations for an e-commerce script just in case I cannot pull it off with the simple commerce module.
I’m looking for something that’s easy to skin/easy to integrate into EE/preferably with valid code/secure
Any suggestions? I’d love to hear them!

I didi not tried yet this one, but think very soon..
as much i see from demo, is best solution out there

http://www.cs-cart.com/

ClickCartPro doesn’t use any sort of template system like Smarty and I find that appealing.  Instead, you have the ability to make your own skin with normal XHTML/CSS and a bit of their PHP (This will get you pretty far).  Basically, you duplicate and modify the one that comes with the system.  For finite XHTML control over some of the body elements (categories, menus, tags, etc..), you have to dig through a well thought out include directory… which is accessible within the control panel.  It’s really similar to customizing EE’s membership templates.  My only complaint about the system is the information architecture behind the admin panel.  It’s well designed and all, but the way things are “grouped” take a lot of thought and don’t become second nature like they should.

I started this thread about it a while back.

magentocommerce.com ?

I just wrote a shoppingcart module and payment gateway in CodeIgniter.

Took me 500 lines of code and it works superb. All articles / categories / pictures / pricing / ... is done in EE.

iworx.media !?!?!?!?

You’ve teased us here!  Please share more information regarding what you’ve done.  Can we see it in action?  Is it for sale?

I just wrote a shoppingcart module and payment gateway in CodeIgniter.

Took me 500 lines of code and it works superb. All articles / categories / pictures / pricing / ... is done in EE.

Didn’t know april 1st was this early this year 😊
Love to hear/see more if it’s true!

Didn’t know april 1st was this early this year 😊
Love to hear/see more if it’s true!

The site’s URL is

http://www.s2store.be

They are running EE as the provisioning tool for all articles. Membership management, payment gateway and shopping cart are CI.
The payment processor we’re working with on this project is Ogone. It’s a live site—so if you order, you pay 😉

—Punctuation is king 😉

Even going further—We’re writing a small routine that updates pricing in our EE database with data from the store’s own “ERP” solution. This will be done on a daily basis. It ain’t all that difficult.

Since I don’t read the language, how involved is your system for collecting taxes and handling a payment gateway?  That’s usually what complicates a lot of e-commerce systems.

I would love to hear more about what you’ve done. Any details you can share about this project?

I’m the same situation for a site that goes live on the first of December with ads coming out on major publications.. But no shopping cart in place.. Might be buying tonight from: ecommercetemplates.com/

Any other suggestions are welcome…

They have some nice walk-through screencasts there for integrating into dreamweaver or expWeb. I could of fell over when the sample layouts actually validated.
The big question is “How good is the eCommerce shopping cart though?”
I like the one time fee bit, meaning there is not a license per domain? Better than the past asp based solution we’ve had to use.

I really wish someone would come up with a full grown module.

At the same time I can imagine that you don’t want to develop a full module with the support around it while Ellislab is doing the same thing (but when?).

I didi not tried yet this one, but think very soon..
as much i see from demo, is best solution out there

http://www.cs-cart.com/

Djive is correct. I have warped osCom, Zencart, and even simplecom to try to do what I need. But cs-cart has proven to be the best solution for a independent developer such as myself for the combination of e-commerce and CMS. Although it is based on the “smarty” (blah) template system, cs-cart provides a vast array of e-commerce solutions for even large (5k customers/day) clients to process orders, while at the same time providing CMS tools to create custom webpages and their “listmaina” approach to propagate content. There is no forum, but it does have a standard “blog” type review system.

Do I wish that EE would release a e-commerce module… you &#xuc;king bet. But they haven’t, nor do I think I can stop feeding my Kids in expectation of a full e-commerce release.

The main problem would be importing the existing data into the new “EE STORE”. It can not be done and users need to know that. Or, at least, that to do so would require a great knowledge SQL.

I would hope that Rick and crew would would not waist their time trying to code “simple commerce”
customers to a new e-commerce system but rather produce the “NEXT GENERATION” system that we all are waiting for.

Heres to 2.0

Me

A lightweight solution might be welcome as well. One where you can collect items in a basket and order it through a generated e-mail. Payment procedure would be traditional.
That should be doable with a custom PHP script. I must say that most of my customers would be happy with a basic approach as this.