As far as I know the *only ecommerce platform is substruct: http://dev.subimage.com/projects/substruct
i.e. theres no Drupal / OSCommerce / et al. equivalent. This one from new line looks promising tho: http://www.commerceonrails.com/ If I were you I'd hit em directly - I know they do hosting, etc. http://www.thenewline.com/ -brez On 9/22/07, John Frenette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all > > this might be potentially off-topic, but I was hoping to get some input. > > I'm looking to start selling downloadables sometime in the next couple > months, and was looking around for a good, solid, stable solution that had > handy features and allowed a TON of customization for the client-facing > front end. > > I've been playing more and more with Rails in the last few months, and it > would be *fun* to work with a Ruby/Rails platform, but really, since this is > going to be a business first and a system second, I don't really want to > spend all my time maintaining and developing the platform. > Substruct didn't really have the features I was looking for, and I'm > hesitant to start building one from scratch if there's a great solution out > there I didn't know about. > > Non-Ruby-wise, I have to admit that I'm a little scared of oscommerce, as > I've heard rumors that modifying the client-facing code is a horrendous > ordeal. > I don't know much about Drupal. > > Dev-wise, I'm comfy with CF, PHP and Ruby on Rails, MS SQL/MySQL on the > backend, and comfy with (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript on the front end, but as > I said I'm not sure I want to start entirely from scratch if I don't have > to. > > Here would be my required specs: > > * supports secure one-time downloads of digital files (without being a > huge resource hog on the server) > * has secure coupon/promotion code functionality (codes can't be reused > willy nilly) > * super flexible front end > * produces clean, SEO/search engine-friendly mark-up > * SEO/human-friendly URLs > * built-in blogging functionality would be nice > * either open source or an affordable solution > * reporting functionality built-in > * allows for integration of analytics/tracking > * allows for pixel placement for affiliate programs > * professional appearance: no nasty, quasi-branded cart under a > different domain or within a frameset (like PayPal or e-junkie) > * easy or built-in integration with a payment gateway > > Here would be some nice-to-haves: > > * fancy drag-and-drop ajax whizzbangs for the customer would be nice, > but would have to elegantly degrade > * affordable hosting would be nice, cheap would be even better > > Does anyone have any recommendations? Pardon the cross-post if you're also > on WebSanDiego. > > Thanks for any/all input in advance > > John > > > -- > > John Frenette > http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnfrenette > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sdruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby > > -- John Bresnik (619) 228-6254 _______________________________________________ Sdruby mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby
