Hello DNN'ers!

I have used both Catalook and AliCommerece community edition in the past, both have thier benifits and drawbacks.  With some customization Catalook will do what I need, but I"m hoping something out of the box already exists.

My problem with Catalook, is the interface design, is just too clunky and hard to understand for most users...I'd like a module with all the same featuers, but better interfaces basically. 

I'm hoping for some recommendations, and maybe some discussion on the pro's and cons of differnet modules.  My needs are specific for this next project.

Needs:

• Ability for certain security roles to be able to add and manage thier own products, similar to snowcovered, but NOT digital products.  Obviously a digital download feature would be great, but not required for this project.
• Vendor profiles, and products.
• Reviews
• Payment Processor integration.  Paypal Pro and Authorize.net would be sufficient
• Shipping calculations
• Tax Calculation
• order managemnt
• customer management
• Fixed prices and Auction prices would be nice.

What do you use and why do you like it?

what DID you use, and why did you hate it?

Thanks alot!

Josh

http://www.dnnreactor.com 

http://www.rad-websites.com

Josh Martin

Josh, I've been looking for the same thing for a few weeks now, and honestly I can't find anything that I can settle with.
Catalook does everything we need, but the interface is strange. ASP.NET Storefront doesn't really do much better when it comes to the backoffice interface.

The best thing I've found so far is Magento (http://www.magentocommerce.com/) - it has a very nice interface out of the box for both customers and store managers, but Magento is not for DNN - it's not even .net, it's a PHP project.

I would gladly pay double or triple the current Catalook price for a good looking and usable backoffice interface.