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Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by grandpoobah on Friday April 22, 2022 @10:12PM (#31130740)
WooCommerce hosted on a dedicated platform such as Cloudways. It's incredibly extensible, and has a thriving third-party addon ecosystem.

NopCommerce has spent the last 5-10 years pouring most of its development resources into keeping up with the ever-changing .net ecosystem. You can imagine what a code base is like when the framework it's built upon is being swapped out every one to 2 years.

Its third-party ecosystem is sorely lacking.

The schema it uses for product attribute combinations is brittle and poorly designed, making fine-grained discounting and reporting almost impossible, among other things.

Redirection style payment methods will leave you with an empty shopping cart if you return to the site before completing payment (eg, to verify your cart's contents).

I've reported easily reproducible bugs and the devs simply refuse to fix them (such as double discounting for associated products), seemingly due to them not taking the issue seriously or failing to understand the issue.

tldr - NopCommerce sucks.

Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by eastbayjake on Friday April 22, 2022 @06:03PM (#31128774)
Depending on your needs, NextJS Commerce (Vercel) storefront + Vendure backend is a full-stack JavaScript fully-OSS option for this. It's basically ready-to-go if you have a B2C/Retail "sneaker store" type use case selling a handful of products, they have a blessed integration + demo for using Vendure but you could swap out for another backend if you liked.

https://github.com/vercel/commerce

Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by monsieurpapa on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:51PM (#31129736)
Thank you for sharing . Packed Coffee (in 250g, 500g and 1kg) is the product I’m trying to build for . Is versed the best choice for this in your view?
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by eastbayjake on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:47PM (#31130146)
If you have 3 products and <100 active orders (e.g., need to be fulfilled / tracked at any given time) then you're in a nice spot for Vendure as an eCommerce backend
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by emteycz on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:24AM (#31119690)
WooCommerce, because everyone else uses it.
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by monsieurpapa on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:56PM (#31129776)
Thanks, Do I need a WordPress site prior to using WooCommerce?
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by emteycz on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:25AM (#31131630)
Yes, WooCommerce is a plugin for WordPress.
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by M_Moonshine_cc on Friday April 22, 2022 @06:47AM (#31120101)
Only if you see no other way than to use Wordpress as a base.
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by emteycz on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:38AM (#31120400)
I am not aware of any other OSS ecommerce software as well supported as Woocommerce - and you never want to depend on something with not-good support with your business.
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by type0 on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:12PM (#31129878)
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by alabhyajindal on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:03PM (#31124487)
Have you looked into Medusa? I haven't used it but it's highly rated and has good reviews.
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by mailatpriyank on Friday April 22, 2022 @06:31AM (#31120022)
Shopify

Pro - Slick UI - Solid backend to manage products - Good plugin support with other e-commerce giant like Amazon, eBay - Good community support - Flexible store customization with good range of theme - Easy to manage even for even non-IT person(Taking about backend process like product listing, shipment generation etc...)

Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by M_Moonshine_cc on Friday April 22, 2022 @06:46AM (#31120096)
That's NOT an open source e-commerce platform!
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by monsieurpapa on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:54PM (#31129767)
That’s what I thought too
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by fpdavis on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:38PM (#31130546)
nopCommerce - Open Source but with commercial support, good community, paid and free plugins in the marketplace. Lots of options.
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by theyknowitsxmas on Friday April 22, 2022 @06:20PM (#31128930)
Notepad, GitHub Pages, PayPal
Re:What open source e-commerce platform would you recommend? by monsieurpapa on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:52PM (#31129746)
I didn’t know GitHub pages can do e-commerce!