Thank you Brandon for the answer. The major challenge will probably be processing payments, handling different currencies and connecting to an accounting system. I understand I won't have to make an accounting system, I could make interoperability to an accounting system and compatible app over webservices or so that could also process any credit card transaction. The company is basically a product selling company and I've started a very small production deployment to get something online to work with while we also evaluate PHP solutions like magentocommerce that seem competent.
I think Paypal works with GAE / python and that could be a basic way to get payments going, but I think I'm looking at a system where the company knows so exact what they want that custom code only will give the control over details. Regards, Niklas On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can be done. But if they have software they like and aren’t in the software business I’m not sure the savings would add up to enough to make it worth the hassle. > > > > I’m very pro GAE, but if you have to build your own app and that isn’t a primary business you are in, that seems like a lot of work to save on hosting. > > > > Also be aware that with no fixed IP payment gateways often require you to go off AppEngine, which means maintaining two hosting environments. > > > > -Brandon > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Niklas Rosencrantz > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [google-appengine] GAE for web shop > > > > I'm proposing that a company uses GAE instead of PHP for their web shop. Is this a reasonable thing to do even though there seem to be no mature web shop system for GAE > even though there is this django project http://www.satchmoproject.com/that > has the goal of being ecommerce with django but is it portable easy to GAE? > Probably not. The way I'm solving it now is with python's webapp2 and its custom auth User model but I have the implement everything from scratch while PHP solution already are mature. > > I also saw this http://www.getlfs.com/start and I wonder how it may help if I try it. I would like to know if you have any comments or ideas about this? > > Thank you > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/jNxKyLjHuAkJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
