Thanks feather, we thought that might be the case. However, integrating two systems together can also be quite daunting. Especially when we are talking about a shopping cart which has unique security concerns.

This is why we want to make LemonStand as flexible and intuitive as possible, so the learning curve is not greater than the return you'll get from 1 cohesive, feature rich website.

Keep the feedback coming!

I would like the blog module just to keep the same design on the whole site. Polls, contact forms and others as such can be easily made with simple PHP and some MySQL and implemented as partials. Doing so you can use only what you really need.

I think we would need a rating system or some other way to review a product. Also a generator for a valid sitemap.xml would be nice. And that's about all for my needs.

Yes, I have a big problem with CMS integrating anything and everything in the core. I want to be able to choose only what I need. I know it is not quite a good comparision, but look at WordPress for example, who seems to become a little bloated with features very few use.

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@pauneugen  I agree that lemonstand should stay lean an mean. But, polls and contact forms are not simple PHP to me. I'm a copy and paster when it comes to PHP and MYSQL. I'm a print designer at heart with no web training. So maybe a nice balance would be a partial library hosted on the wiki that people can choose features from.

I am a drupal developer. Drupal has a CMS called UBERCART, that is pretty feature rich, but I would really be more comfortable with a dedicated ecom solution.  So,  perhaps some strategies there would help. If would certainly get a lot of attention from the DRUPAl community if you did something there.

Hi,

Many of my clients starts with a "classic" CMS and then eventually migrate to a full blown ecommerce website.

In order to be as versatile as possible, a module or an Custom Data Type API would be a great feature to have ( think about Drupal's CCK or WordPress' Pods UI -wich is GREAT- );  e.g. : my client Mr Manufacturer wants to manage the store's information (name, address, latitude, longiture) where you can find his product.

With such a feature Lemonstand could become my Swiss Army knife for website AND ecommerce solutions.
Will there be a detailed documentation about module development, the 'Extendind Lemonstand" section of the wiki is desperatly empty? How to interact with the database model?

Thanks,
Nicolas

multiple variations!

i've been playing with product creation and it looks like you only have the option for one variation set (maybe i'm missing something).

for example, if i have a configurable product (grouped wrapper), which has the following simple products:
black-small
black-large
white-small
white-medium
white-large

the product variation dropdown populates with all variations. i think this needs some serious attention, should have multiple dependent variations available like this

select color -> black -> populates size dropdown with small & large black
and
select color -> white -> populates size dropdown with small,medium & large white

imagine if a product had several variations like size, color, material, which would lead to a very large dropdown