Take a look at CiviCRM. www.civicrm.org It is great for handling memberships and donations.
There are versions for Drupal, Joomla and a recently released version of WordPress. The WP plugin is still under development and does not yet have all the features as the Joomla and Drupal versions. I have never used Civi for ecommerce, but it could be used for it. On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Federico Ulfo <rainelemen...@gmail.com>wrote: > Howdy Matt -- for your project Wordpress is the best solution, because > easy to hack and fast to develop. Is probably not the most elegant code out > there, but is the best to have the job done! Also in WP other developers > can join the project later, and immediately understand it and hack it. > > Avoid custom unless you have time and want to challenge yourself and learn > something new, and even in that case the best solution is to use a > framework, because it doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel, when lot of > functionality are already made and tested. > > Keep me updated on the progress of your project, > Federico > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Matt Juszczak <m...@atopia.net> wrote: > >> I've been doing some volunteer work for a local non-profit and they have >> been looking into re-doing their member management system. >> >> I decided not to build something custom because their needs are simple. >> Originally, I thought about going with something like SugarCRM and using >> that to store their members. But eventually, they'd like shopping cart >> integration so they can have members purchase things and have them tied to >> their account. >> >> My next thought was to go Wordpress with woocommerce. Members can be >> tracked as wordpress users and their role indicates their member level (I >> can create custom roles). Woocommerce would faciliate the shopping cart >> and a simple wordpress plugin or two could handle the meta data that needs >> to be stored with each user. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions on other PHP-based alternatives? >> >> Thanks! >> ______________________________**_________________ >> New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/**mailman/listinfo/talk<http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk> >> >> http://www.nyphp.org/show-**participation<http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation > -- Stephen Britton Technology Consultant sbrit...@gmail.com Twitter: @StephenBritton ph: 914-661-0040 "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
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