Hi everyone, I've recently been evaluating the practicality of developing an open source ecommerce solution to handle products, customer accounts, shopping, and business reports/data analysis. When I've been approached with this request in the past, the conclusion is inevitably to use an existing solution because of the time involved and the difficulties with PCI compliance.
With Pyramid's built-in support for auth (which is surprisingly easy to use with SSL compared to Pylons and repoze.what), the majority of the work would be left to developing a solid model and templates, along with options to configure or integrate payment processing solutions, tax rules, etc. Virtually all shopping cart solutions that aren't Google Checkout or Paypal require the business to obtain its own merchant account and payment processing account, and it would also be up to them to purchase secure web hosting or secure their own servers to PCI compliance standards, meaning this application wouldn't need to address a large chunk of PCI compliance requirements. That being said, the amount of testing and work involved on this project means it needs community support or it's doomed to fail. As a Pylons-turned-Pyramid developer who works with small businesses, I'd find it ideal to have it in Pyramid vs existing PHP and Python/Django solutions. Is this something anyone else is working or has an interest in? Thanks! Eric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
