Hi Eric, I participated very briefly in the development in Satchmo (one of Django's ecommerce solutions) and I do have an interest in developng an ecommerce solution with Pylons/Pyramid. That being said, I have an interest, but no time (grad school + full time job + limited sleep).
Maybe this is a general pyramid question, maybe not, but one of the best features I thought Satchmo had was that the shopping cart provided default templates, and each specific shop just had to define a new templates directory, and override the portions they needed and they would take precedence over the defaults. Is that going to be possible with a pyramid ecommerce solution? What did you have in mind for product variations and product attributes? On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Eric Rasmussen <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- Brian O'Connor -- 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.
