Im planing to build a ecommerce extension upon Umbraco. Im doing this as a part of a project for a company im working at the moment. The solution will in then end be used for them to deliver new "e-shops" for customers, nopthing to fancy just a productlisting with some info about the products and some kind of payment method. The backend wil be extended with a new section that will handle all products and orders (Content, Media, Users, ESHOP).
The question:
For the ease of setting up new "e-shops" for new customers what is the best solution of these to choices when extending the backend:
1 ) create one working shop and for every new customer copy this shell and use for as a new installation (is it possible to just copy the physical files and just edit web config?)
2) have all new customers share the same installation? this might give me problems with loads of templates especially if there are multilingual sites.
I imagine at the end you would just want to package up your e-shop (you create packages in the developer section) and then your new customers could install your e-shop package into their umbraco.
Hi all, thx for the help here! Took me a while to thank you but better later then never right? =)
I'v seen all the proposed systems and they look great. But since this is an examenation project I cant use any of these implementations. This is also a great way for me to learn more about Umbraco!
So back to my questions:
- Is it possible to set up a new umbraco site by c# code? I know how to set up a new IIS site and copying a database shouldnt be a problem. So im guessing there's only some details I need to learn to get this going?
- Are there any kind of performance problems with running, say, 15 to 20 umbraco installations on a single IIS server. The server will have a lot of processing power.
When im done with this project, someone in the sales department should be able to fill out a form and boom, a new webshop is up and running.
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Hello,
Im planing to build a ecommerce extension upon Umbraco. Im doing this as a part of a project for a company im working at the moment. The solution will in then end be used for them to deliver new "e-shops" for customers, nopthing to fancy just a productlisting with some info about the products and some kind of payment method. The backend wil be extended with a new section that will handle all products and orders (Content, Media, Users, ESHOP).
The question:
For the ease of setting up new "e-shops" for new customers what is the best solution of these to choices when extending the backend:
1 ) create one working shop and for every new customer copy this shell and use for as a new installation (is it possible to just copy the physical files and just edit web config?)
2) have all new customers share the same installation? this might give me problems with loads of templates especially if there are multilingual sites.
Anyone have a tought about this?
Best Regards
Marthin
first, you may not want to reinvent the wheel: http://commerce4umbraco.codeplex.com/
I imagine at the end you would just want to package up your e-shop (you create packages in the developer section) and then your new customers could install your e-shop package into their umbraco.
there is also this discussion going on right now...which may be of interest to you: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/extending-umbraco/6319-Umbraco-E-Commerce-Options
Hi all, thx for the help here! Took me a while to thank you but better later then never right? =)
I'v seen all the proposed systems and they look great. But since this is an examenation project I cant use any of these implementations. This is also a great way for me to learn more about Umbraco!
So back to my questions:
- Is it possible to set up a new umbraco site by c# code? I know how to set up a new IIS site and copying a database shouldnt be a problem. So im guessing there's only some details I need to learn to get this going?
- Are there any kind of performance problems with running, say, 15 to 20 umbraco installations on a single IIS server. The server will have a lot of processing power.
When im done with this project, someone in the sales department should be able to fill out a form and boom, a new webshop is up and running.
Thx for any help!
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