On 14 November 2011 03:28, Alec Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > My question to both users-groups is, how mature are your e-commerce modules? > > I am building a meta e-commerce store (so an e-commerce store of > e-commerce stores), so it's very important that the e-commerce modules > we extend are already quite mature. > > The kind of feature we will be adding in (or using, if already implemented): > - Multiple payment gateways > - Order lifecycle (i.e. keep client in-the-know of how close there > order is to delivered) > - Ability for store to allows client to pick between "pay on pickup", > "pay on delivery" "pay online", but to also limit these choices to > just, i.e. "pay online" > - Multiple stores linked to the 1 shopping-cart (even across multiple > payment gateways) > - Pre-built modules to assist in building mobile apps
There isn't (AFAIK) an off-the-shelf e-commerce solution in catalyst, however - Mango and Handel (both available on cpan and github) provide the framework with the features you require, they aren't widely used (again AFAICT), mostly because high-end e-commerce leans towards bespoke to-spec work rather than dropping in something off the shelf (where most people plump for oscommerce or magento) - there are also a fair ammount of perl classes and libraries for individual parts of the system if you want to put something together without mango and handel covering all the areas of e-commerce you need, from payment handling to social media integration. If it's a large project then chances are you won't find an all-in-one solution that meets your needs, this is why the perl stuff tends to be framework and library oriented rather than drop-in-and-go applications which PHP pretty much owns. regards, Aaron -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
