Wednesday 24 March 2004 1:05:49 am

The shop module does not include a payment engine, which is probably why your test failed.

We have several e-commerce sites now running eZ publish, using our Worldpay extension (in the contrib area) without problems. That extension can likely be adapted for other payment engines - they are pretty similar.

For us the biggest benefit is customers can work with products in the same way they can for other objects like articles. Its that simple.

paul

Wednesday 24 March 2004 7:22:30 am

While I love eZ publish, I am not happy with its commerce capabilities. Specifically, trying to sell semi-complex products. There are some long threads discussing product options, so I won't get into it again. ;) From what I have heard, and as Paul has posted above, many people do like it though. I guess it just isn't for us. That said, I have been thinking of a separate method
of developing our site that might provide us the flexibility we need, but I'm not sure...

I have also been looking into separate shopping carts (just the cart, not a full e-commerce implementation like OSCommerce which also acts as a CMS). I found a program that looks to be a pretty solid Perl script that allows me to post everything to it via POST/GET which allows me to use eZ publish for the CMS. I would prefer to not deal with totally separate systems, scripts and languages, but... well I may have to.

I hope the folks at eZ systems will focus more attention on providing flexibility and power in the commerce portions of the site in the future.

Alex

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Wednesday 24 March 2004 8:13:35 am

I think the issue with commerce sites is that although they all do the same thing, choose-basket-buy. Each company has its own requirements for how the customer views the information and how the fulfilment of the order is handled packaging etc.

It is true there are various other packages out there that handle most shop features, intershop, actinic etc. These are great but the problem comes with integration. You generally want a single uninterupt (both deisgn and process) method for updating articles and products. So you need to choose what your main requirement is and choose a package that fulfils that need.
That said I think that eZ has all you need from a shoping cart, but, there are many areas that need improvment.
I agree with Paul, a workshop at the conference would be good to discuss these points.

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Thursday 25 March 2004 7:09:11 am

Bruce, I don't think it's appropriate for me to post a link to the other cart as it does compete (at least in a small way with eZ publish). If you want me to give you some info, post your e-mail address here, or drop me an e-mail at 'alexj' at 'agrussell.com' and I'll send you the info and my impressions on the package.

Alternately you can pop onto #eZpublish on IRC. I aim to be logged in most of the day (U.S. Central) and bald_technologist (well, it cuts off the 't'...sigh ;).

Alex

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