athompson wrote
The main point of this thread though is to warn people who may be considering using the store that I don't think it should be used unless you are:
1) An experienced developer with experience in ASP.Net and what ever database you're using.
2) A person with a fair amount of time to spend on fixing code and adding new features (you will need to build new features to run an ecommerce site via store 1.00.01).
3) Someone with a lot of patience.
On the other hand, the alternatives are few, there aren't any other free modules, and things like catalook are quite expensive and very confusing to use.
I love the DNN framework, but without investing a lot of your own development time (or money if you choose catalook) then I don't think you can use DNN to support an ecommerce site at present.
Hi, I've also just spent several weeks working on the Store module to get it ready for use on a real store .. (using DNN 4.03.04 and store 1.00.01 too)
I considered several options but mainly catalook vs dnn store, both of which I would have had to heavily change to get the online store working the way I want - ended up choosing dnn store because catalook was just too complex.
Sorry I cant give a link to the finished store yet ;) Will be two weeks before signoff and then launch date should be soon after that
Even though I've spent a lot of time, it wasnt too difficult, it was more a case of lots of small things to change. I've submitted all the bugs that I've found to the store team and also have been carefully recording where I make changes .. so I dont expect to have too many problems upgrading to the next version of the store
So even though there were quite a few bugs, and I had to write a lot of extra functionality, I still wholeheartedly recommend dnn store :)
The point is that it is something that can be used as a base to build upon, whereas if you chose something like catalook then it would be much harder to customize.
And dont forget to contribute your changes :)
JK