anyone using nopCommerce?

[sean8988]

Hi,

I find that magento is popular on this forum. I know it's in PHP, but I think ASP.NET is more efficient and fast in developing/customizing a website. Is anyone using nopCommerce?

nopCommerce is new but very popular open source e-commerce solution. nopCommerce is available for free. A solution with comprehensive features that are easy to use for new online businesses, yet powerful enough for the most demanding e-commerce expert. It’s a secure, scalable and extendable e-commerce platform. The newly released nopCommerce 2.0 is based on ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and anticipated the advantages of latest technology.

I want to know your opinion on nopCommerce.

Kindly regards,
Sean

 

[MRabjohn]

We decided to standardise on nopCommerce at Version 1.90 instead of porting our old classic ASP solution. We find that nopCommerce has a large array of features (as stated on their website) which cover pretty much anything that you would want to do within a standard eCommerce system, but lacks some run-of-the mill useability features that we have depended on with our old in-house system for the last 6 years.

Still early days for us to be honest, just doing our 4th and 5th nop based eCommerce site, but we already find that the system has the following little issues:

1) General file upload for blogs or descriptions is handled via the FCKEditor - but no option to delete files exists (we've added this in our customised version).
2) Our old system allows user selectable product and/or category lists to be configured and fed into JQuery features such as Carousels, slide shows, mini-databases etc. nop does not have this data feature (again, our custom version contains this).
3) The FCKEditor's file manager does not allow hyperlinks to be made to products and categories, which is an oversight for blogging - again, our version does.
4) The FCKEditor'f file manager does not allow hyperlinks to be made to Blog Entries, Forum Postings and CMS topics, and I intend to add this.
5) The site indicates that payment integrations can void, refund or release, but we generally use SagePay, and we find that the out of the box SagePay integration does not void, release or refund, even though the SagePay API is excellent - we will of course be adding this function for SagePay to our custom version, but it makes me feel uneasy about the quality of the other payment integrations.
6) No facility to attach loose downloadable files to products i.e. Technical PDF or User Manual or Brochure - we've added this in our version.

So for us, there's a little work to do, but it's around 6 months quicker than porting our old system up to DotNet! All-in-all, it's a great package, if you are skilled enough to get in to the nuts and bolts to add what you need.

We don't supply our custom nopCommerce as-is, because our service/product is based around a design led approach where we fully reconfigure each implementation to exactly match designs from our professional design service - implementation costs are generally From £4000 and include design, programming, configuration, initial product upload and testing of agreed features.

We're actually finding that the freedom of Open-Source is a great selling-point, since our old system had a hosting lock-in - with nop, we have no such restrictions.

Mark Rabjohn - Wizzy Design Limited (wizzy.co.uk)

 

[MRabjohn]

We decided to standardise on nopCommerce at Version 1.90 instead of porting our old classic ASP solution. We find that nopCommerce has a large array of features (as stated on their website) which cover pretty much anything that you would want to do within a standard eCommerce system, but lacks some run-of-the mill useability features that we have depended on with our old in-house system for the last 6 years.

Still early days for us to be honest, just doing our 4th and 5th nop based eCommerce site, but we already find that the system has the following little issues:

1) General file upload for blogs or descriptions is handled via the FCKEditor - but no option to delete files exists (we've added this in our customised version).
2) Our old system allows user selectable product and/or category lists to be configured and fed into JQuery features such as Carousels, slide shows, mini-databases etc. nop does not have this data feature (again, our custom version contains this).
3) The FCKEditor's file manager does not allow hyperlinks to be made to products and categories, which is an oversight for blogging - again, our version does.
4) The FCKEditor'f file manager does not allow hyperlinks to be made to Blog Entries, Forum Postings and CMS topics, and I intend to add this.
5) File downloads (manuals, data sheets, brochures) cannot be attached to products - again we had to customise to add this.
6) The site indicates that payment integrations can void, refund or release, but we generally use SagePay, and we find that the out of the box SagePay integration does not void, release or refund, even though the SagePay API is excellent - we will of course be adding this function for SagePay to our custom version, but it makes me feel uneasy about the quality of the other payment integrations.

So for us, there's a little work to do, but it's around 6 months quicker than porting our old system up to DotNet! All-in-all, it's a great package, if you are skilled enough to get in to the nuts and bolts to add what you need.

Our decision is purely based on our server technology (all windows) - we've yet to evaluate Magento to see how the other half live!

I've read some other forums, and some people are concerned that nop sites don't look any good - I can honestly say that I can get nopCommerce to match pretty much any design - ugly websites are the function of shoddy design and configuration, and nothing to do with the underlying system.

Note that the MVC based nopCommerce 2.0 is out, but I prefer to watch everyone else suffer early adoption problems, then sweep in for the version that's available in about 12 months!

Mark Rabjohn - Wizzy Design Limited

 

[lexius]

I put a test nopCommerce site up for my dads products recently, I was suprised how easy it was to do and also configure for his specific requirements (which werent much).

I have messed around with a few other asp based softwares over the years, but I was more than empress with nopCommerce, and have started looking at it to use for another larger b2b site.
Im no expert, but i do try to do indepth research on these type of things, from what i can recall it had very reviews.

 

[TotallySport]

I have no idea, as there script is supposed to have been updated to ASP.NET MVC, but there deploy scripts don't work on it and I couldn't find a contant link to email them about it, the script on the Web installer is still the older 2010 version, so I am not overly impressed with them, but I haven't even tested the scripts.