nopCommerce - design architecture and industrial standard eCommerce features
December 21, 2016
nopCommerce - design architecture and industrial standard eCommerce features
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with nopCommerce
nopCommerce is used as a base e-Commerce framework for one of my clients to implement and online e-Commerce portal (http://www.luxegourmets.com). I'm a technical lead responsible for implementing the whole e-Commerce portal. All features that come with nopCommerce are industry standard and we're using all the features. We're using the nopCommerce framework for a public facing B2C e-Commerce portal. Because nopCommerce is an open sourced framework, we're also able to make modifications and additional enhancements according to our business needs.
Pros
- As I came from Microsoft .Net technical experience with more than 15 years in IT industry, the nopCommerce .Net based open sourced framework is the best eCommerce framework in terms of architectural perspective - such as incorporating with Entity Framework code first approach, Domain Driven Architecture, using ASP.Net MVC, Unit Testing, ...etc.
- When my client asked for an eCommerce portal, the whole team was struggling from designing a database to identifying the requirements. nopCommerce has everything we need. All the industrial standard eCommerce features are included. It saves hours of database design, application design and also the client's requirements are easily fit into nopCommerce's features.
- The cost of nopCommerce- the last time we paid was a $200 one time cost for using the production site. It was ridiculously cost effective. As it is opened source, the whole community is supporting and constantly making this framework better and better.
- I set up a web site within a week using nopCommerce to sell my own products online. It was so easy to use, deploy, and set up.
Cons
- nopCommerce is for .Net, MVC and EntityFramework technical engineers if you want to make some modifications and add your own enhancements. Therefore, it is the best for a Windows server infrastructure environment. This is not PHP or JAVA. This is all Microsoft and .Net.
- The version I'm using is nopCommerce 3.40. Current version is 3.80. There are a few features that are not available out of the box; such as incorporating different tracking number for multiple shipments, splitting order and payment into multiple shipments at the checkout page.
- nopCommerce is the best for small and medium size business (SME). It will not able to handle incoming traffic like Amazon or Alibaba in terms of performance.
- It saved development cost and time for our development team who don't have eCommerce experience. It saved us six months worth of designing and implementing the eCommerce application. No need to mention that our management team and business users were so happy about it.
- Because of well architectural design, it was so easy to maintain the whole application and include add-on new features from time to time. Making changes and deployment can be done just within a few hours was absolutely phenomenal. It was the trust that technical team gain from management team to make the whole business process running smooth and so every one can sleep sound at night.
- As our online eCommerce site, http://www.luxegourmets.com has been running more than two years now using nopCommerce, business users are looking to expand and integrate with third party tools. Without further investing and looking for solutions, we have all the tools and add-on features are already provided by the framework.
Our development team is fully committed to Microsoft technologies, but Magento is on a PHP platform. We played around with the two products - nopCommerce and Magento side by side, and concluded that maintenance and making modification would be easier in the future and more beneficial to the team if we choose nopCommerce. For an eCommerce product, Magento may be suited for a certain type of businesses and team, but not for the technical team that is on the .Net technologies.
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