E-Commerce solutions comparision

Great task idea!! Fits the criteria of being very important and useful to the community!

But we need a bit more detail and a reign in scope here. For example, what are "major aspects"? What is a "drupal-based solution"?

Here's an example of one of our former "Compare X things together" write-ups, so you get an idea of the level of detail we need: http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/issues/...

One other thing--we're giving students 1 week for all tasks now, because that makes it easier for us to track them. So please change the estimated time to reflect that, so the student doesn't get confused.

What would help here is to give a more complete list of solutions you'd like to see tested. So far you have:

• osCommerce
• ZenCart
• Ubercart (Drupal)
• e-Commerce (Drupal)

You can add Romancart for instance and add a couple of others. Or at least tell the student explicitly to research 7 e-commerce solutions for instance.

Great, create a task for it following the guidelines and make sure to be descriptive enough.

Remember that you can't edit a task once it's submitted so review before you post. You can't put any markup so html won't work for instance.

Before you create a task with Google, I think it's best to post here first so everyone can look at it.

I don't see detailed information about what you want out of this. Do you want a documentation page in the handbook? A written report in .xxx form? Do you want images pointing out certain important aspects? etc.

Description rerolled, minor edits + stripping of formatting to make google like it.

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Task title: E-Commerce solutions comparision sheet

Task description:

Compare the following 4 shopping carts in all possible aspects:

* Drupal with E-Commerce module
* Drupal with Ubercart
* OSCommerce
* Zen cart

Main points:
1) Features that they support - eg: payment gateways, shipping methods, etc.
2) Databases that the framework supports.
3) Security concerns.
4) How easy is it to implement one's own design independent of business logic.
5) How good is it in handling high traffic web applications.
6) Ease of integration of 3rd party APIs.

As an overview explain why a person should choose Drupal over the other option.

Resources:
Drupal E-Commerce: http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce
Ubercart: http://www.ubercart.org/
OSCommerce: http://www.oscommerce.com/
Zen cart: http://www.zen-cart.com/

Estimated time: 1 week

Primary contact: Sree

Why did you step down from 7 distributions to just 4? Since this task takes up 1 week, I think it's a good idea to include the other 3, maybe also including Romancart?

There is still no deliverable in the most recent version of this description (#9).

<disclaimer>
I know nothing about creating an e-commerce site.
</disclaimer>

4) How easy is it to implement one's own design independent of business logic.

What does this mean. Will a student who doesn't know much about e-commerce understand this?

5) How good is it in handling high traffic web applications.

How is the student supposed to determine this? Stress and performance test the application himself? Find where others have done this? What specifically is a "high traffic" web application? Doesn't that depend on the hardware used and other configuration information?

6) Ease of integration of 3rd party APIs.

Are you looking for ease of integration with specific APIs? Any API? This is a bit ambiguous in my opinion.

3 - 6 are far too general for this. For 6 you could look at existing 3rd party support and how easy that is to integrate with the solution itself (is it modules? do you have to hand code edits into core files like oscommerce?).

Closing this almost 4 year old issue. If we want this for another GHOP, then we can open a new issue with current information.