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Sunday 22 January 2006 7:58:15 pm
I am evaluating eZ publish for an e-commerce web application which should have typical features of a web shop, such as:
- Presenting products at a customised level
- Shipping modules
- Payment modules
- Order tracing system eZ publish does include an integrated commerce system named WebShop (or eZ shop?). Moreover, according to ez.no (http://ez.no/products/ez_publish_cms/info/e_commerce_functionality), the e-commerce functionality includes a wide range of simple web shops to enterprise b2b. The problem is that, after installing the system, I cannot see these advanced features as argued in the introducing the e-commerce system. There is this WebShop tab with some basic functionalities which do not include, say, an order tracing system. I cannot even find out how is it possible to ask the customer to register before putting an order. I understand that the advanced features mentioned in the website is marked as 'possibilities', meaning they are available 'potentially'. But, well, any advance feature is 'potentially' available to any basic system! On the other hand, in Customers > References > E-Commerce, you can find some e-commerce applications with rich features. The questions are:
- Were the referenced websites made by WebShop?
- If yes
- how easy (or hard) is it to make the referenced e-commerce websites using the WebShop feature?
- Are the advanced features available as open source extensions, or are they secret money-makers?
- If no, I guess the arguments regarding creating enterprise websites by eZ should be modified.
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