I am too developing an e-commerce site for my business using open source CMS (wordpress and woocommerce plugin). Although there are several CMS like magento, zen-cart etc available, I'd talk a bit about my experience with woocommerce here.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote: > I am creating an e-commerce website and in the process I picked > up certain ideas that I thought was worth sharing. > > People think databases are useful for ticketing, banking and asset > tracking. > > In an e-commerce website with inventory management, search > functionality and so on database is key. > > To implement a simple search bar in a website a simple SQL query > against your database keywords and conditions applied against > price or quantity or feedback can be very powerful. > > There are basically few building blocks to an e-commerce portal. > > Woocommerce provides premium (i.e. non-free) plugins to manage all the above features. > 1) Payment gateway integration(costs cash, PayU is 6k INR) > 2) User login integration(gmail, facebook API) > 3) DB backend for storing inventory and tracking orders > 4) Ability to zoom images of products > 5) Category wise listing and search and sort of product listings For example they have a plugin to integrate with PayU, India merchant account. Apart from all the things Girish has summed up nicely, I'm also allowing users to create a "wishlist". > That is all. > > The payment gateway part is quite complicated as it involves > banking and money and security but that is handled by a third party. > > Our complication is in managing SKU(stock keeping unit), the > order tracking(different states for courier delivery, courier progress) > and so on. > Which CMS are you using? Which courier company you are using for delivery? Checkout sites like "Code Canyon". In most cases, it is convenient to buy some code rather than reinventing the wheel. > > Most of the website is a common view for all in which he browses > through the inventory and places an order. > > The user specific parts are his delivery address, his order IDs, > his credentials like mobile number, mail ID etc. > > I think it is not very complicated to do all that. > > And you might want to have a page for sellers as well. > Seller page is required when the site is just an interface between merchants and buyers example eBay, snapdeal etc. If the admin of the website is managing the inventory, then this is not needed. > > -Girish > > -- > Gayatri Hitech > http://gayatri-hitech.com > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
