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ECommerce Site - Which CMS?
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- hoff331
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Hey everyone. I am going to be working on a new e-commerce website that sells monthly memberships to use its mapping software.
Clients have WordPress experience and want a CMS to house the mapping application. I have never used WordPress as an e-commerce solution and wanted to get some feedback.
I have worked with Joomla!, both VM and Tienda which are great for stores selling products.
I have never used Drupal as an e-commerce solution, but I love the way they handle users and privileges.
Clients are using Authorize.net
Any CMS recommendations/examples for a monthly-service based e-commerce website?
Thanks everyone!
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- hoff331
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After reading some more WordPress, it does not sound like a great solution for this "service based" e-commerce site.
The proposed functionality is to have users pay to access parts of the website that house the application on the frontend.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but it seems like WordPress users are limited to controlling content on the frontend and not necessarily access to portions of the site.
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- Ben Simon
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Developers have done amazing things with WordPress including implementations of eCommerce. The problem is, 1) It's not as powerful as other CMS and 2) It can make inventory/billing very complicated through the standard WordPress back end (kind off defeats the intentional simplicity of WordPress).
I've only had one client request an eCommerce solution for WordPress. She has a popular blog and wanted to start selling crafts. It might have worked if she had say, 5 or 10 products but she has 100's. Eventually convinced her that Joomla was the way to go because I could basically automate it so she would just get emails for payments, invoices, and labels. She knew I would charge more to manage the back end but it was worth it to her.
I use Joomla, VM, PayPal API's, Authorize.net (previously), and Squareup.com. I've switched merchant accounts quite a bit. - B
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- Craig Crossland
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I am unsure if it will help but I have heard from other forum posts a while back that VirtueMart is supposed to be really great to get Joomla into an e-commerce site.
I also agree with the above, keep clear of Wordpress, as it is a blogging platform it would be strange to use it as an e-commerce site. - Love to Play Bingo Movie Drinking Games
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- Craig Crossland
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I am unsure if it will help but I have heard from other forum posts a while back that VirtueMart is supposed to be really great to get Joomla into an e-commerce site.
I also agree with the above, keep clear of Wordpress, as it is a blogging platform it would be strange to use it as an e-commerce site. - Love to Play Bingo Movie Drinking Games
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- Adamck
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Ive tried virtumart before and found it quite complex to set up and a little old looking in the back-end.
I have recently (this week) installed the RokEcwid extension and used the Ecwid shop and had the store created and ready to roll in minutes.
Its the easiest shop system ive used by far and was very easy to integrate with RT templates.
And best of all... its free (subject to a tiny link to them) or the premium service ($17/mo) allows more features, no linkback and e-coupons etc...
So IMO... Joomla and Ecwid together make a very easy to manage and quick shop! - Kiss my RSS
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- Ben Simon
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Good point Adamck, VM isn't the easiest to use. I originally started using it because it could process clients’ spreadsheets of products. Like when I need to upload 10,000 items at a time.
I've really only considered Tienda as an alternative and hadn't tried RokEcwid. Sounds interesting. - B
e courteous to staff and members that volunteer their time helping you
E ssential Tool - FireBug
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S earch the forum for a solution first
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- Jacob Stanfield
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I've got to say I am having a nightmare dealing with Tienda. Everything looks great on the front end but there are several issues in the back (shipping UPS, paypal redirect, styling, etc). I purchased the $100 support and I have received little help. I think they may only have one guy working there "Chris". He's about as helpful as a rock. I'm going to post my review at
tinyurl.com/3uwolju
as soon as I can figure out how to get my commerce sight launched.
If you do decide to use Tienda, I have seen good reviews but if you run into trouble, I just want to warn you the $100 support ticket for 1 month is useless. After his first useless tidbit of help (over 24 hours after my submission), I requested a refund as I could tell immediately he wasn't going to help, he responded "they don't give refunds." I put in an update request to see where we were at every day since last Wednesday morning, it's now Tuesday, 6 days later and I have yet to receive a response. - Thanks.
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