The State of E-commerce on SilverStripe

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What can you build with SilverStripe?

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What tools are available?

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How can we make SilverStripe a better e-commerce platform?

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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

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

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

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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What would it take to have a first class, modern solution for SilverStripe?

Default Theme

MachineLearningShippingBranding

Works Out of the Box

Search

Internationalisation

Stripe.js European TaxSolution?

WombatSS Module Standards

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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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A Vision 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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A Vision 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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A Vision 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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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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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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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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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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