Hello, I'm looking for a free open source e-commerce system that is easy to do simple modifications, wont brake all the simple modifications with an upgrade, well documented, with an active community and hopefully built with a documented framework It also needs be able to run on linux and made with python, ruby or php.
Those are the ones I have tried or looked at. Magento - Too slow and I'm not sure if this is the way to go. Built with PHP and some Zend Framework Bakesale - Uses the Cakephp framework, its nice and simple but feature lacking and the latest stable version is buggy/incomplete. the community is not very active I have been using this cart on a project and so far CakePHP has been nice. Satchmo - It uses Django/Python but I can't get it to install at the moment. The community and developers are active (enough) and I have been getting responses in the same day. I hope I can get this one to work for me since this will give me a chance to learn and work with Django. Opencart - Seems nice and clean, this might be in between Magento and Bakesale as far as features. Community is somewhat active. Its built with PHP. I haven't installed the stable version yet but the new beta looks promising . Substruct - It uses ruby on rails, there is not much traffic on the mailing list but last time I sent a question someone quickly replied. This cart is nice but I would prefer something on PHP or Python, modding it was not as easy as I thought. My heart is set on learning Django at the moment :o) I'm not sure about OsCommerce, Zen Cart, Virtuemart because I heard they are not easy to modify. But maybe Ubercart and Drupal e-commerce are might be good. If anyone wants to share their e-commerce experience I would really appreciate. I also hope this is on topic enough for a linux list. _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Sep 3 - Porkchop - The Areas of My Expertise Oct 1 - Ubikeys Oct 4 - Linux Fest Nov 5 - Releasing Open Source Software Dec 3 - TBD
