What options are available for building e-commerce site with the SilverStripe CMS? How can we make SilverStripe a better e-commerce platform?

1. The State of E-commerce on SilverStripe
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2. What can you build with SilverStripe?
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3. What tools are available?
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4. How can we make SilverStripe a better e-commerce platform?
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9. SilverStripe Shop
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+ Active community
+ Increasingly best-practice
driven
+ Paid time for regular
maintenance (thanks Adair
Creative Group)
+ Wide payment support
(Omnipay)
- Technical debt
- Documentation
- Internationalization
- Weaker branding & default
theme
- CMS UI unpolished
github.com/burnbright/silverstripe-shop

10. SwipeStripe
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+ Clean, tested code
+ Modular to a fault
+ Polished CMS UI
+ Nice default theme
- Less active community
- Fewer payment drivers
- Checkout less flexible
- Maintenance is PR’s only?
github.com/swipestripe/silverstripe-swipestripe

11. SilverStripe E-commerce
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+ Faster development
+ More new features
+ CMS UI more stylized
+ Shipping, search, ajax built in
- Different Philosophy
- Messier code
- More API changes
- No tests
github.com/sunnysideup/silverstripe-ecommerce

12. SilverCart
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Magento / Shopify
Moltin

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What are you having success with?
Are there solutions or techniques that I’ve missed?
What solutions are you eager to try?
What have you had success with?
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14. Photo: Bow Makers’Tools / PeterThorny / Creative Commons
What would it take to have a first class, modern
solution for SilverStripe?
DefaultTheme
Machine
Learning
ShippingBranding
Works Out
of the Box
Search
Internationalisation
Stripe.js EuropeanTax
Solution?
Wombat
SS Module
Standards

15. Photo: Bow Makers’Tools / PeterThorny / Creative Commons
What are your pain points with SilverStripe
and e-commerce?
I would use SilverStripe for e-commerce instead of Magento if...
My last e-commerce project sucked because...
I would build X if I had time and skill...
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16. AVision for SilverStripe Shop
We can’t compete with Magento, Shopify, Sylius, or Spree
for breadth of features - so what is success?
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17. AVision for SilverStripe Shop
Our sweet spot is:
• SS developers who need to add simple commerce
to an existing site.
• SS developers who need to build a larger site using
their existing skills for bespoke features.
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18. AVision for SilverStripe Shop
We need to focus on:
• Stability and quality
• Easy install and “just works” with a nice default
configuration
• Integration with API’s and external services where
possible
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19. SilverStripe Shop Roadmap
1.1.1 - Released this week
• Compatible with SS 3.2
•Testing against 3.2 and 3.1
• Bug fixes from the community
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20. SilverStripe Shop Roadmap
1.2.0 - End of this year
• Behat tests
• Improved CMS menu layout
• Works well with default Simple theme
• Internationalization improvements (hopefully)
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21. SilverStripe Shop Roadmap
2.0.0 - Released with SS 4.0
• Compatible with SS 4.0
• Ideally refactor to namespaces
• Improved UI for variations/attributes
• Possibly rebrand a bit
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22. How could we move forward together?
• Would there be other companies that might commit a few
hours of time per month?
• Would anyone be interested in tackling branding and themes?
• Establish a core team
• Is there any way to merge some of these or make them more
interoperable?
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