On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Chirag Vora <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Oh nice. I don't have as much knowledge as you.

I just developed on my own. No third party plugins.

But for jQuery for image zoom and shopping cart.



> >
> Woocommerce provides premium (i.e. non-free) plugins to manage all the
> above features.
>

I have heard lot of great things about Wordpress. But woocommerce not
 being free is a problem.

>
> 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".

Yes, that is part of the "user account" page. That is also standard.

PayU integration is something we can do just like Paypal integration. I don't
 see why we should use a third party tool for that.

> 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.

Oh I just wrote on my own. Courier company? That is a non issue right?

Unless I am missing something. We have to manually enter the status based on
 what the courier company tells us.

> 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.

Most e-commerce websites are affiliates for some other sellers.

So clear demarcation between seller and retailer is important.

Thanks for your inputs.

-Girish

My first cut version:

http://spam-cheetah.com/jumpshop/



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Gayatri Hitech
http://gayatri-hitech.com
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