Have an ecommerce site? Help me with suggestions on the beackend issues.

[martis4566]

Hi,

Want to implement a social ecommerce site. It is a fishing site with an ability for users to have their profiles, upload photos and also this site should have an ability for those users to buy fishing equipment. But still cant decided on the business logic:

1. Develop backend (including cart) from scratch what would be able to store and fulfill orders+ quickbooks for accounting.

2. Take an open source cart and upgrade it to our needs (add features like photo uploads evaluation, affiliation and etc. What cart would you suggest? When this cart should have the ability to store and fulfill orders+ quickbooks for accounting.

3. Take a simple open source or build from scratch a simple cart with extra features that we need like photo submissions evaluation (we do not need porn on our site) and use a third party inventory system like fishbowl+quickbooks for accounting.

4. Your best suggestion here.

You will help me very much if you will let me know what would you do in my situation.

Thank you.

[StartupSidekick]

Hi Martis,

I would look into a CMS system such as Wordpress or Drupal. They have plugins that you can install that will provide for shopping cart functionality, as well as your other requirements listed above. It will also keep track of your content, and allow for easy posting

I am a Microsoft Certified Professional programmer, and I actually use an open source CMS system for my websites; it is just much easier to implement

Jason
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[jrockfl]

It really depends on what your budget is. Having something custom developed can cost you thousands. You may be able to use am open source product and customize it to fit your needs.
Personally, I prefer the custom software solution since I'm a .net programmer.