Plone Ecommerce Space Growing Fast!

While we have been focused on the development of GetPaid (get the latest at http://code.google.com/p/getpaid/downloads/list ), there are a number of new products out, or about to be, so I have updated and reorganized a bit the Plone Commerce Background page. For convenience, I am copying the new stuff here.

NOTE: I am not endorsing any of these and this is not intended to be a review of these products. If you are seeking a commerce solution, it is recommended that you carefully review the products in question for quality of the framework, interface, and support/community - in addition to the features - before making a choice.

In the order from most recent (for my discovery of them):

• Sustainable Shop (ssShop): according to one of the developers, it is "an out-of-the-box online shop which includes, amongst other things, paid-for downloads, and product variants, as well as regular shop products". The product was based on work for the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, and can be seen in action here: http://www.rscds.org/shop .  Pending a 1.0 final release shortly, for now the code can be found at: http://ssplone.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ssplone/ssShop/trunk/
• Emencia Commerce Suite: An Open Source commerce product built on Zope / Zwook / relational database. Handles country, shipping, taxes, order workflow, currencies, customers, catalog, coupons/promotions, and orders management.  Find more information at http://www.emenciacommerce.com/en/aboutecs/functionalities
• Quintagroup Ecommerce Solution: The first for-fee (not free) Plone commerce product I have come across (costs US$430), it is designed to run an online store as "a universal tool for managing products in the online store". It is developed for Plone 2.5 and uses SimpleCartItem (see below) and seems to consist of a product content type and some portlets, inventory function, as well as a currency preference feature. Find more on the product at http://quintagroup.com/solutions/e-commerce
  
• SimpleCartItem: Developed by the folks at netCorps, SimpleCartItem is designed to provide a basic content type that integrates with online stores such as PayPal store and allows for various attributes on an item (color, size, etc). It works with both Plone 2.1 and 2.5 and draws from PloneMall and PlonePayPal. It appears to also work with 2Checkout processor. Find more at http://plone.org/products/simplecartitem

There are more all the time, so it looks like we are getting some healthy competition in the Plone commerce space finally!