Story: the built-in shop
This page is for journalists who cover e-commerce. Many content management systems add a shop through a plugin; Exponential has one in the kernel, from its early generations.
Contents
The story in one paragraph
The README lists "Advanced e-Commerce Stores (Built in)" among the main features: products, baskets, orders, VAT,
currencies and PayPal payments through the ezpaypal extension (Who is 7x?, A CMS, a CMF and a shop in one).
The 6.0.x line improved it: the Store tab opens a dashboard that "shows on one page ... how the shop is doing,
which orders need attention and how checkout is configured", with an order status for every stage
(Store dashboard and order statuses), and every order can have a receipt "with
an address that never expires" (Permanent order receipts).
Facts you can print
| Fact | Source |
|---|---|
| E-commerce is built into the kernel | README, "Main Exponential features" |
PayPal payments through ezpaypal | ezpaypal |
| A store dashboard and order statuses for every stage | Store dashboard and order statuses |
| Permanent order receipts customers can bookmark, print or download, with or without an account | Permanent order receipts |
| Order lists can be sorted | Order list sorting |
| Country groups for shop settings | Country groups |
What not to claim
| Do not say | Say instead |
|---|---|
| "A full replacement for <named shop platform>" | Describe what the built-in shop does (Comparisons done fairly) |
| "PCI certified" | No certification is documented; payment handling is through gateways such as PayPal |
| "Shop works on MongoDB" | The checkout on MongoDB is "untested end to end" (Story: MongoDB as a database) |
Angles and headline ideas
- "Content and commerce in one open source system."
- "Receipts that never expire."
Related pages
- Story: editing content
- Feature stories: index
- Feature highlights for customers
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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