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A list of eCommerce frameworks built on top of Django.
Features currently being evaluated
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Payment Methods | Supported payment methods. |
| Demo Site | If the framework has a public demo site, a link and login/password are given. |
| WYSIWYG Editor | Support for WYSIWYG editor(s) and/or markup formats. |
| Plugins | Supports third party plugins. |
| Tests | Contains a suite of unit tests. |
| Pypi Installable | Can be automatically installed with dependency resolution via pip or setuptools. |
| Documented | Contains thorough documentation. |
| Multilingual | Full builtin multilingual support. |
| SEO | Builtin tools for SEO. |
| Shipping options | Available shipping options. |
| Product Types | Supported product types. |
| Comments and Rating | Add a comment to a product and/or rate it. |
| Anonymous Checkout | Can a customer perform a checkout without registration? |
| PDF Invoice Generation | Supports PDF Invoice generation for packaging slips? |
| Search | Has the framework a builtin search? |
| Django Version | Which version of Django is supported? |
| App Integration | Does the admin interface support integration of any Django app which provides at least a urls.py? (Eg by making use of Django's admin interface) |
| South Support | Allows south to be used to migrate the database. |
| Test coverage | The current test coverage of the package in percent. |
| Sales | Specify a discount across a range of products and/or categories for a date period. Bonus points if it doesn't add extra database queries each time the product is viewed. |
| Dynamic Categories | Categories can be created for all products under a certain price, that contain a certain attribute (eg colour is blue) and will be automatically updated as the product attributes change. |
| Stock Control | Can stock levels be specified with products going out of stock once all purchased? |
| Configurable Checkout Steps | Can the checkout steps be combined into a single screen (one step checkout) or multiple (billing/shipping, payment, confirmation) with a single setting. |
| Upsell support | Allow product cross referencing and upselling opportunities |
| Tax calculations | Allowing products to be taxable via different shipping/billing areas |
| Wishlists | Allow users to identify wishlist items |
| Multisite | Multi-tenancy enabled through integration with contrib.sites. |
| Multiple currencies | Allows to use multiple currencies in one instance. All catalog items can be provided with prices in each currency. |
| List of Sites | Is there a list of sites online that use the E-Commerce app? |
| Promotional Codes for Discounts | Can discount codes be created for the customer to enter and receive a discount. Features such as support date ranges and limit to certain products and categories and optional free shipping. |
| Package | Satchmo | LFS - Lightning Fast Shop | django-shop | satchless | Cartridge | Plata | django-ajax-shop | django-oscar | Django session cart | gnocchi-catalogue | mamona |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description |
Satchmo is an ecommerce framework built on the Django framewo... |
A lightning fast shop for Django. | A Django based shop system |
An e-commerce framework for (real) perfectionists with (real) deadlines |
A Django shopping cart application. |
Plata - the lean and mean Django-based Shop |
a little and fast reusable shop application ajax based |
Domain-driven e-commerce for Django 1.3 |
A 'cart' for Django, stored in a visitors Session |
A Product Catalogue app for Gnocchi |
Fully portable Django payments application that can use any Order/Cart model. |
| Category | Framework | Framework | Framework | Framework | App | App | App | Framework | App | App | App |
| # Using This | 24 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads | 3368 | 36602 | 3540 | n/a | 5549 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Last updated | Feb. 3, 2012, 4:23 a.m. | Feb. 21, 2012, 8:01 p.m. | Feb. 21, 2012, 10:35 p.m. | Feb. 16, 2012, 5:58 a.m. | Feb. 21, 2012, 10:07 a.m. | Feb. 20, 2012, 3:37 a.m. | Feb. 16, 2012, 3:02 p.m. | Feb. 21, 2012, 3:06 a.m. | July 24, 2011, 5:03 p.m. | March 18, 2011, 4:18 a.m. | Oct. 13, 2011, 8:51 a.m. |
| Version | 0.9-1 | 0.6.6 | 0.0.13 | 2011.9.pre | 0.3.7 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Repo | Bitbucket | Bitbucket | Github | Github | Github | Github | Github | Github | Bitbucket | Bitbucket | Github |
| Commits | |||||||||||
| Repo Watchers | 346 | 169 | 352 | 271 | 66 | 86 | 2 | 109 | 5 | 3 | 81 |
| Repo Forks | 116 | 45 | 99 | 42 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 37 | n/a | n/a | 10 |
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| Package | Satchmo | LFS - Lightning Fast Shop | django-shop | satchless | Cartridge | Plata | django-ajax-shop | django-oscar | Django session cart | gnocchi-catalogue | mamona |
| Payment Methods | - Authorize.net - Trustcommerce - Google checkout - Cybersource - Paypal - Protx - Sermepa - Purchase orders - COD - Gift certificates | Very flexible OOTB. Easy extendable via a plugin API.
Cash on Delivery Bank Account PayPal Credit Card sofortueberweisung.de | cash-on-delivery
paypal (ext) postfinance (ext) Easily extensible | Authorize.net PayPal dotPay SagePay |  Authorize.net, eGate, PayPal | PayPal
Postfinance Cash on Delivery | Paypal | ||||
| Demo Site | Yes, but only for the frontend.
http://demo.satchmoproject.com/ | http://demo.getlfs.com | local (in the example folder) | Local only, look in examples/demo/ | http://mezzanine.jupo.org | Several projects in the repository demonstrating various aspects of Plata. | http://acquista.dolcericordo.it | ||||
| WYSIWYG Editor | | |  Does not belong to the framework | | yes TinyMCE can be activated easily; FeinCMS content blocks can be easily reused inside Plata (FeinCMS isn't required to run Plata) | ||||||
| Plugins | | | | | | Built around OrderProcessor and content plugins | |||||
| Tests | | | | | | | |||||
| Pypi Installable | | | | | |||||||
| Documented | | | | | | | | ||||
| Multilingual | | | Possible | | | ||||||
| SEO | | | Possible | | | ||||||
| Shipping options | Multiple shipping options including:
- Fedex - UPS - USPS - Tiered shipping - Flat rate | Very flexible OOTB. Easy extendable via a plugin API. | Flat rate, easy api for extensibility | Base class to build upon, multiple delivery groups within one order | Flat rate provided plus hooks for implementing your own rules | Flat rate provided; other options can be implemented through a plugin system | |||||
| Product Types | Standard, Custom, Downloadable, Product Variations, Gift certificates | Standard, Variants, Configurable Products | Any
Variations (ext) | Abstract base class to build on | Single product model that handles 0-n variations with 0-n option types. | Only comes with example products; you have to write your own product model (third party packages with products are available) | Tags Section |
Products are grouped by tagging. Also, any product has 1-N Variants | |||
| Comments and Rating | | | Use existing Django packages | | Providable by standard django packages | ||||||
| Anonymous Checkout | | | | Possible | | | | ||||
| PDF Invoice Generation | | Possible | Possible | | | ||||||
| Search | | + livesearch | Haystack support comes in contrib | | Does not belong inside shop software | ||||||
| Django Version | 1.1, 1.2 | 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 | 1.2, 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 | 1.2, 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.1+ | |||
| App Integration | | Uses the regular Django admin | | | |||||||
| South Support | Migration scripts provided for latest releases | Full automatically migration | | Full migrations included | Full migrations included for shop models | ||||||
| Test coverage | 90% + | 75% | 90% + | ||||||||
| Sales | Store wide sales are supported | | | Possible | | | | ||||
| Dynamic Categories | | Possible
Simply categories (ext) | Possible | | (yes) For selecting which order items a discount applies to | | |||||
| Stock Control | | | Possible | Possible | | + transactional stock control (one transaction per stock change) | |||||
| Configurable Checkout Steps | Via custom payment modules, you can modify the checkout process. | Possible | Single-step and multi-step checkout included with the framework, you can provide your own | | Possible through subclassing the Shop object | ||||||
| Upsell support | | | Possible | | |||||||
| Tax calculations | | | Possible | | hook provided for calculating tax amount | | |||||
| Wishlists | | Planned | | | |||||||
| Multisite | Possible | | |||||||||
| Multiple currencies | |||||||||||
| List of Sites | http://www.getlfs.com/live-shops | http://cartridge.jupo.org/overview.html#sites-using-cartridge | |||||||||
| Promotional Codes for Discounts | | | | Possible | | | | ||||
| Package | Satchmo | LFS - Lightning Fast Shop | django-shop | satchless | Cartridge | Plata | django-ajax-shop | django-oscar | Django session cart | gnocchi-catalogue | mamona |