We are currently evaluating uCommerce as our e-commerce offering and have started a little demo site as the demo site provided doesn't do it justice i feel.
It looks like a steep learning curve with extending the package - i was just wondering if anyone had any feedback on their experiences with the system? We have built our own e-commerce systems previously but this offering looks good and i think it would take a long while to start from scratch.
My just-hit-me concern is deployment of local changes. Does uCommerce integrate with Courier? If you can imagine a live site and any changes which happen to it, courier handles this. It would be nigh on impossible to this otherwise.
Any feedback on anything would be great - like I said it looks the part, but would like to make sure before I continue.
I'm sorry to say that uCommerce does not work with Courier out of the box. Courier understands only pure Umbraco data. Since uCommerce uses a data store designed specifically for e-commerce Courier does not know how to handle it and how things relate to each other.
The good news is that we're working on a new product called uConnector. Basically uConnector is for uCommerce what Courier is for Umbraco. Although it does so much more.
uConnector is a generic integration engine, which can be used to "glue" any systems together by using our adapter model. Instead of assuming anything about the systems on either end, uConnector assumes nothing the systems in play. Indeed it treats uCommerce the same as any other system.
The idea being that you very often need some sort of integration with other systems like ERP, WMS, CRM or webservices like MailChimp, Salesforce, and so forth. Not just synchronization between two uCommerce installs.
The current beta includes support for FTP and uCommerce Product adapters and cogs for handling CSV and Excel formats. What this means is that you can pick up a Excel or CSV file from FTP and stick that information into the uCommerce product database or vice versa.
For now we've just got what we need to prove the concept. We'll add more adapters as we go along.
Please let me know if you're interested in taking a look at the beta. I'll hook you up with a samples projects and some preliminary documentation.
Soren hi , we r tring to use uCommerce and Courier 2.5 on same site but having problems with DLL conficts.Probably because uCommerce was not compiled with last version of Umbraco we r using (4.9) .We do not want to propogate uCommerce data using Courier but other umbraco data
uCommerce 3 is compiled with the same DLLs that Courier use so that doesn't require any config. If you wish to use an older version of uCommerce you can create an assembly binding redirect in web.config that will make uCommerce and Courier use the same version of the DLLs.
Courier - Deployment - Extending
Hi All,
We are currently evaluating uCommerce as our e-commerce offering and have started a little demo site as the demo site provided doesn't do it justice i feel.
It looks like a steep learning curve with extending the package - i was just wondering if anyone had any feedback on their experiences with the system? We have built our own e-commerce systems previously but this offering looks good and i think it would take a long while to start from scratch.
My just-hit-me concern is deployment of local changes. Does uCommerce integrate with Courier? If you can imagine a live site and any changes which happen to it, courier handles this. It would be nigh on impossible to this otherwise.
Any feedback on anything would be great - like I said it looks the part, but would like to make sure before I continue.
Cheers -
Kenny
Thanks Soren.
If you could hook me up with some samples that would be ideal; just when you get a chance.
Cheers,
Kenny
Soren hi , we r tring to use uCommerce and Courier 2.5 on same site but having problems with DLL conficts.Probably because uCommerce was not compiled with last version of Umbraco we r using (4.9) .We do not want to propogate uCommerce data using Courier but other umbraco data
What would u suggest us to do ?
Thanks.
uCommerce 3 is compiled with the same DLLs that Courier use so that doesn't require any config. If you wish to use an older version of uCommerce you can create an assembly binding redirect in web.config that will make uCommerce and Courier use the same version of the DLLs.
MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/eftw1fys(v=vs.100).aspx
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