Overview
Project name
TYPO3commerce
Abstract
The goal is to create an advanced Shop Extension that fulfils almost all current requirements for e-commerce software. The shop extension will be scalable to match all further requirements: An API for external processes, like connecting to a credit card gateway or address verification, will be basically developed. Some exemplary systems that connect through this API will be developed as well. Basic BE modules for order handling, statistics and product/article editing will be included. This extension is NOT a modification of tt_products, in fact it's a complete state-of-the-art new development, utilising DBAL, FlexForms, services and DAM.
Further discussion on this extension can be found at http://wiki.TYPO3.org/index.php/Ext_commerce.
This document describes the “project team intention” . All further planning, developing and implementing will be based on it. If you'd like to participate by input, programming, planing or even sponsoring the project feel free to contact any of the project members.
The feature list gives you a brief overview on the current status. All items that appear on the general feature list will be available in the first release. The items listed under sponsored features are just “nice to have” and will be implemented only if a sponsor is found. The features listed as unimplemented are extremely specific. Since they would only be needed in a very few projects an implementation at this stage would cause too much additional effort. Those features would also require a very complex prior planing phase. If you absolutely need one of those features and are willing to contribute the required conceptional input, feel free to contact the project team team@TYPO3-commerce.org :-).
Status of this document
Current Version is 1.7, based on the findings of the latest workshop in Roskilde, Denmark, Germany on February 25th to 28th March 2006.
Extension type
Backend modules with basic functions, frontend plug-ins .
Status
New development. Programming phase. First implementation in productive system availiable:
Surf0800 (http://www.surf0800.de), complete shop with automatic order processing to afterbuy
Beurer (http://www.beurer.de), international product catalog with product finder based on article attributes
Sanicur (http://www.sanicur.de), complete shop with dynamic pricehandling
Planet Botanic (http://www.planetbotanic.com), complete shop with barclaycard integration for payment
profieinkauf.de (http://www.profieinkauf.de), complete shop, using the commerce backend.
Currently this extension is in a closed beta phase, as the project team want to achieve a high quality of code in the project and a high reliability especially concerning the calculation and payment methods. This extension deals with real money, so this quality is absolutely necessary! The project team is currently looking for implementations outside of Germany to improve the general concepts of tax handling, payment and the support of non iso latin-1 charactersets. Feel free to contact the project team at team@TYPO3-commerce.org.
Compliance
The implementation will be based on the latest productionTYPO3 Version (V3.8.1), is also stable on the current 4.0 branch. PHP 4.3.x will be supported.
