[MKDoc-dev] Status of ECommerce module

[Charlie Garrison]

Good afternoon,

On 25/9/04 at 7:51 PM +0100, Chris Croome <chris at webarchitects.co.uk> wrote:

>On Sun 26-Sep-2004 at 02:22:23AM +1000, Charlie Garrison wrote:
>> 
>> What is the status of the ECommerce module? 
>
>Um, well I have never used it, Jean-Michel developed it for a
>private job (of a dubious nature...) but Bruno thinks it's a good
>thing so we should support it.

It's definately a good thing to have some sort of basic shopping cart, but
that is such a broad definition. I suggest opening it to discussion to find
out what are the important features of an ecommerce module/plugin.

>> Is that going to be added back into v1.8?  What needs to be done
>> to include it again?
>
>I didn't realised that it hadn't been... yes why not, but I don't
>know what would need doing and I'm not up to doing it myself...

I'll have a look at that too (since I will need something for my project
anyway). But I still think there should be discussion about what is imporant:

- product database table vs component configuration (eg. price component)
- what user details are required (eg postal AND shipping addresses)
- freight/postage calculator
- integration with payment gateways

And I'm sure there's more to discuss, I haven't given it much thought yet.


Charlie

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