I'm wanting to find out more about extensing Umbraco to have ecommerce features like a shopping cart, payment gateway etc. I have had a look at a few of the options out there, such as the free solutions that are still in beta or the paid version which can cost $3,000+.
I wanted to know if I'm able to use .net controls and or some pages for this? Am I able to modify the URL re wrting capability for Umbraco and exclude certain folders and or pages?
I'm brand new to Umbraco, if anyone more expreienced out there can give me some insight into this approach, that would be great.
You can indeed use your own .net controls to implement your own e-commerce solution, and you can exclude certain folders/pages from umbraco's control as well (look in the web.config file for the reservedPaths and reservedUrls settings).
I've recently done a site where the site pages are all powered by umbraco, with a bunch of user controls on certain pages to talk to a custom EPOS system to do all the e-commerce stuff and it was very straightforward!
Just wanted to add that you might want to take a look at uCommerce as well if you need the ability to do online marketing in the form of product discounts and vouchers. Also you can avoid the hassle of integrating with a payment gateway if you can use one of the seven that come out of the box.
You find out more at www.ucommerce.dk of if you contact me at [email protected]
Ecommerce store best practices
Hi There,
I'm wanting to find out more about extensing Umbraco to have ecommerce features like a shopping cart, payment gateway etc. I have had a look at a few of the options out there, such as the free solutions that are still in beta or the paid version which can cost $3,000+.
I wanted to know if I'm able to use .net controls and or some pages for this? Am I able to modify the URL re wrting capability for Umbraco and exclude certain folders and or pages?
I'm brand new to Umbraco, if anyone more expreienced out there can give me some insight into this approach, that would be great.
Thanks in advance.
Sean
Hi Sean,
Have a look at either
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/supersimplewebshop (€99)
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/tea-commerce (€349)
You could also try integrating the free nopCommerce into Umbraco as Matt Brailsfords has done, see thread here http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/extending-umbraco/14140-If-interested-please-vote-for-NopCommerce-feature
Of course you can build it yourself, depends who much your time is worth :)
Rich
Hi Sean,
You can indeed use your own .net controls to implement your own e-commerce solution, and you can exclude certain folders/pages from umbraco's control as well (look in the web.config file for the reservedPaths and reservedUrls settings).
I've recently done a site where the site pages are all powered by umbraco, with a bunch of user controls on certain pages to talk to a custom EPOS system to do all the e-commerce stuff and it was very straightforward!
:)
Hi Guys,
Thanks very much for the answers. Tim, I like the approach you describe. I think I will take that road.
Sean
Just wanted to add that you might want to take a look at uCommerce as well if you need the ability to do online marketing in the form of product discounts and vouchers. Also you can avoid the hassle of integrating with a payment gateway if you can use one of the seven that come out of the box.
You find out more at www.ucommerce.dk of if you contact me at [email protected]
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