[Trellis-developers] ecommerce

[Shaddy Zeineddine]

No, ecommerce can still function with the changes to the catalogs. It
will need updating, and we would be removing support for products.

James M. Carlos wrote:
> I do like this set up more than the redundancy of the items. Would the
> removal of ecommerce be necessary in order to do this?
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> James Carlos
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> Shaddy Zeineddine wrote:
>> we could remove products from catalogs if we did this. we might also
>> want to reconsider our catalogs/items since dealing with courses as
>> items is confusing and redundant.
>>
>> catalog_items -> catalog_id, item_type, reference_id
>> courses (no changes)
>> bundles (re added)
>> bundles_courses (replaces bundles_items, limits bundles to courses
>> rather than products, courses, subscriptions, or other bundles)
>> subscriptions (no changes)
>>
>> this would improve almost every aspect of catalogs for non ecommerce
>> clients, and it might also improve it for ecommerce clients too
>>
>> Shaddy Zeineddine wrote:
>>  
>>> Ecommerce is still a lacking area of Trellis. The truth is that most
>>> current and future clients do not have a need for ecommerce in their
>>> learning center so it hasn't been a priority. For these reasons, it is
>>> hard to justify the inclusion of ecommerce in trellis as a core feature.
>>>
>>> I think we should consider taking an existing ecommerce solution and
>>> integrating it with trellis through a plugin. I know James is somewhat
>>> familiar with ZenCart (oscommerce branch), and I was happy to hear the
>>> latest version will require php 5.2 (just like us). I have not looked
>>> into integration very much, but it is something to consider.
>>>
>>> Basically the plugin will need to provide the methods we would use to
>>> complete transactions without needing the zencart user interface, we can
>>> also forward users to zencart for purchasing and sync our catalog with
>>> zencart. This would probably mean management of ecommerce would be done
>>> using zencart, administrators can be forwarded to the interface and user
>>> accounts can be auto generated from trellis. We can customize the look
>>> to match our admin site, it doesnt have to be an exact match, but it
>>> should feel familiar.
>>>
>>> If we can integrate trellis with a third party ecommerce program, it
>>> will be easy to offer advanced functionality to our clients who request
>>> it. And for the rest, we will have one less chunk of code to worry
>>> about.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
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