Second to a truly integrated calendaring option I think one of the more desired MODx features is a fully functional eCommerce solution.
While I never personally fell in love with the hosted FoxyCart, I did appreciate it’s relative simplicity and ease of implementation. This, depsite it’s additional monthly cost.
I recently came across a post in the MODx forums referencing ECWID eCommerce solution and it’s fairly well documented knowledge base. On the surface it seems simple enough:
Immediately after you paste three simple lines of HTML into your website’s source code, your site will have full online selling capabilities. The code will render a web store inside your existing pages, using AJAX technology. No installation is required—all functionality is stored on Ecwid’s servers.
In terms of cost, ECWID states:
In order to provide Ecwid for free, we had to make it very resource-effective. This keeps our costs down. We also designed Ecwid to require little to none technical support. We made version upgrades seamless. Our design efforts made free Ecwid possible.
These same efforts make Ecwid a great platform to base your store on: easy launch, with little to zero maintenance costs!
Of course, Ecwid is a business platform and we will announce paid subscriptions at a later date. However, a free version of Ecwid will always be available. We like the fact that with Ecwid, you can get your store up and running without paying anything. And we’ll keep it this way, guaranteed.
I personally don’t have an interest in this company/product. I hope that this beta release may at least may point the way as a solid and viable third-party eCommerce option for MODx developers.
Hey Greg
Sounds like an interesting ecommerce option, at least one that's worth a look.
einsteinsboi
January 30th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
For the price – its actually quite good – I'm using it on a MODX install and it is working like a charm. – There aren't alot of payment gateways supported though, but still – it's free – and is pretty straight forward.
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:24 am
Great resource. I'll check it out. Thanks Greg.
February 8th, 2010 at 5:30 am
I don't know why but I don't like hosted solutions:S Maybe hate the idea, it's not open source and I can't just download and play with it. And I'm afraid that it's not platform for growth – it can happen any time that something must be customised and I have to switch as I don't have access to the code.
April 7th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
I can definitely agree with you. There are undeniably down-sides to going with hosted solutions.
April 8th, 2010 at 12:05 am
But true – TreasureChest and Shopkeeper (like this one more) are just nothing so special.
Ideal solution – Magento takes the header and footer from MODx or MODx takes category tree, shopping cart content, top selling and newest products from Magento.
Just dreaming:)
April 8th, 2010 at 1:01 am
I did find on code.google a module for e-Commerce named Kiwi, but the project seem dead
It's look as a great option, but it doesn't work with any version greater than 1.0.
Regards, Lester
June 11th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
It's fairly easy to get KiweeCommerce working with ModX 1.0+ but it takes a few tweaks of the install files, a few painkillers and a lot of patience. But it is possible.
For ease of integration and customisation I ended up going with ShopKeeper as the customer only wanted to receive requests for quote as opposed to actual sales/payment gateway…
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