A site for an offline business that sells trophies, plaques and other customized items. Custom engraving business where people can select product, select customizations, enter text, upload images, order and pay.
How easy/difficult to build ecommerce site like this
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I worked at a store that did all that. We used the out of the box network solutions ecommerce platform and we were able to tweak it to cover almost everything. Seems complicated but at the end of the day they are just selling products like any other ecommerce store with the ability to add an engraving. PM me if you want to see what it did.
As long as you don't need to render the image or text they uploaded to the trophy for the visitors, this is a slam dunk. Should be fairly easy.
Do you want a ecommerce centric site or a CMS site with ecommerce plug-ins? There is a distinction as the focus are different. Its generally harder to deploy and manage a lot of landing pages and squeeze pages on an ecommerce site than on a CMS.
There are dozens of ecommerce sites out there, I like OpenCart, osCommerce, magento, ZenCart and worked on others. Most also have commercially available templates / themes that you can tweak to give you a nice look and feel.
For CMS based ecommerce, depending on complexity, you can use WordPress, Joomla, Joomla, Drupal and DotNetNuke; all of them have plugins / modules that does an adequate job with ecommerce and you can find a bunch in their respective community that are free. If you don't mind spending a few bucks, I've build a lot of WooCommerce based ecommerce sites for small to medium sized clients in WordPress... Not a very steep learning curve and most can cover a few thousand SKUs easily.
The most complicated elelment is probably going to be your payment gateway. Most systems support PayPal, but there are numerous others including 2Checkout, AlertPay, Sage Pay, Payza, Liberty Reserve and more...
If you are looking for a roll our own, envato has a bunch of templates / scripts that you can pick up at a decent price (i.e. Code Canyon).
Hope this helps.
There are dozens of ecommerce sites out there, I like OpenCart, osCommerce, magento, ZenCart and worked on others. Most also have commercially available templates / themes that you can tweak to give you a nice look and feel.
For CMS based ecommerce, depending on complexity, you can use WordPress, Joomla, Joomla, Drupal and DotNetNuke; all of them have plugins / modules that does an adequate job with ecommerce and you can find a bunch in their respective community that are free. If you don't mind spending a few bucks, I've build a lot of WooCommerce based ecommerce sites for small to medium sized clients in WordPress... Not a very steep learning curve and most can cover a few thousand SKUs easily.
The most complicated elelment is probably going to be your payment gateway. Most systems support PayPal, but there are numerous others including 2Checkout, AlertPay, Sage Pay, Payza, Liberty Reserve and more...
If you are looking for a roll our own, envato has a bunch of templates / scripts that you can pick up at a decent price (i.e. Code Canyon).
Hope this helps.
daGazaman that's quite helpful. This is what he gave e as a sample, he doesn't want it to look like 90s homemade tho. I was thinking just a web site with pages of different products. I don't know how many products, but I doubt thousands. I'll look at some of those you mentioned. I'm trying to get a feel for what is involved as I don't have a clue at this point how much time it would take or what to bill.
Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the help.