Yeah actually sales reporting has heaps to do with a shopping cart; clients want fancy graphs which can be changed by easy to use filters with all sorts of useful feedback info; to know different periods of time, compare different items, different kinds of graphs etc. They also want tabular data as well!
Individually each of these items might only take a few hours to develop at a minimum, but when we're comparing development costs, a few hours for each of these pieces of functionality suddenly adds up. Add to this, an item typically needs a few photos for it, the ability to rate it, tag it, have comments on it, find related items, have discounts, have discount vouchers, have different sizes. The cart needs to be able to manage quantities of each item type. Payment modules need to be written. And then what about multi currency capabilities? And also i18n for content etc. It also might need to send invoices, perhaps dispatch shipments etc. You really need the whole shebang for a fully functioning system and nearly all of these things are actually more complicated than they sound to develop, so naturally I was hoping that there was already something in existence for symfony ;) On May 31, 6:25 am, Eno <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010, bretth wrote: > > I agree that it's easy to get a basic shopping cart going; the issue > > really is all the "extra" things; the main one being advanced sales > > reporting. > > Sales reporting doesn't have much to do with building a shopping cart. > That would involve running some queries against your orders database > surely? > > -- -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" 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/symfony-users?hl=en
