Online store ecommerce

[Evan Leibovitch]

Rob Sutherland wrote:

>I did a comparision between OsCommerce and Zencart last year and basically, 
>if you want something that will work out of the box Zencart is the way to go. 
>However, if you need to do anything like hook your shopping cart up to 
>SugarCRM or do SEO tricks or something, OsCommerce is the way to go because 
>there's so much going on in the community. OTOH, OsCommerce is such a mess 
>under the hood that you'd better know what you're doing. Even if you know how 
>to use version management and diff/patch etc. it's a major pain.
>  
>
A good compromise is the ecommerce module of Drupal. Like OsCommerce, 
it's part of a widely used CMS system with a huge community, a lot of 
extensions, and the availability of a powerful CRM. Unlike OsCommerce, 
its code is clean enough that others in the community are doing 
contributed modules for it without needing to fork.

http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce

The downside is that, while it installs cleanly, Drupal's ecommerce can 
be a bit of a challenge to configure and its default look-and-feel could 
be much better. However, it is in active development -- some important 
features, such as product attributes, are relatively new.

Drupal's ecommerce is running on the CLUE site and operating quite well.

- Evan

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