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SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

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Re: SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

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Post by zxcvb »

justboxing wrote: post #3

This is great! Congratulations on shipping!! You should add "Show HN " prefix to your title, since this looks like a show and tell. I checked out the demo site and the Admin Dashboard. Seems to have everything needed to host an ecommerce site... except, I didn't find any payment gateway integration. Even checked http://demo.simplcommerce.com/Admin#/configuration and didn't find it. Any plans to integrate payment gate…

I worked as an ecommerce consultant for Hybris (the leading enterprise grade commerce platform) for many years - most projects would include using a payment gateway of the clients choice which is why having a standard integration with Stripe is a waste of time.

Re: SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

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Post by abrookewood »

cutler wrote: post #8

Why is this relevant to the Hacker News crowd when it clearly states "prerequisite: SQL Server".

There is no prohibition against commercial software on HN. The criteria, if I recall correctly, is simply that it is intellectually stimulating.

Re: SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

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Post by rbalsdon »

justboxing wrote: post #3

This is great! Congratulations on shipping!! You should add "Show HN " prefix to your title, since this looks like a show and tell. I checked out the demo site and the Admin Dashboard. Seems to have everything needed to host an ecommerce site... except, I didn't find any payment gateway integration. Even checked http://demo.simplcommerce.com/Admin#/configuration and didn't find it. Any plans to integrate payment gate…

My first thought was to check the source for how they're handling credit card data, payments, and gateways. I can't find any of it... Skipping those bits makes ecommerce _a lot_ easier to build!

I second parent's suggestion here though, Stripe API is a great place to start.

Re: SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

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Post by GiorgioG »

As a .NET developer it's nice to see projects like these. On the other hand I had looked at this a while back and my impression of the data model (specifically the Product class) was not great.

https://github.com/simplcommerce/SimplCommerce/blob/master/s...

Price, OldPrice, SpecialPrice, special price start and end dates properties are less than ideal for any non-trivial implementation. Prices should be driven by policies, not defined in the product itself (IMO.)

Re: SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

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Post by cltsang »

ahansen wrote: post #7

Great stuff, I love seeing what people are building with .NET Core. I feel like I'm getting much closer to the point that I could confidently commit to building a greenfields project for a client in it. Are there any parts of the project you could highlight as being much harder or easier as a result of building it in .NET Core over, say, .NET 4.6?

I've been trying to port an existing .NET 4.6 ASP.NET project to .NET Core. So far there are 2 major problems:

1. entity framework core code first does not support table per type inheritance, which makes database migration necessary

2. some libraries do not support .NET Core yet

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