Umbraco eCommerce has found a home

Morten Bock — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:14:23 +0100

At Codegarden, we decided to try and collect the efforts and interrest that is invested in the eCom extension in one place. The point of it all is to create a couple of plug'n'play packages for getting started with ecommerce on an umbraco platform.For now, the only thing available is the source, but since the Umbraco community is filled with early adapters, i thought i would just trough it at you anyways. Go take a look at the Umbraco Ecommerce extension on Codeplex. I'm only just getting started with it, so just raise your hand (not physically) if you want to help out.

By the way, I'm posting this from livewriter, so if something looks weird, now you know why :-D

UPDATE 20-11-2009: The extension mentioned above is not being maintained, so if you are interested in a commerce platform integrated tightly with umbraco, take a look at uCommerce. It's brand new, and plugs right into your favorite CMS.

Codegarden Session: E-commerce Direction

Morten Bock — Fri, 11 May 2007 12:57:06 +0100

Here on day 2 of Codegarden, all sessions are created in what they call "Open Space" which is a forum where everyone can suggest a session that they want to hold, or they want to listen to.

Gert Abildskov suggested an E-commerce session to discuss the future of the E-commerce extension, which has been floating around the community, but has never really found a home, so to speak. The extension was originally built as a framework that could be enable umbraco developers to create e-shop facilities. The problem/challenge so far has been, that its pretty diffcult to get started with the extension, and that what's really needed out there is an extension that is plug-n-play for a simple shop.

I've entered in a group with the purpose of trying to define what the E-commerce extension should develop into. The first things to be done are creating a repository on Codeplex and opening the discussion on how to proceed. So look out for news on this subject.