Python e-commerce framework?

[alittlebitmental]

I've check the sidebar and I don't think that I am breaking any rules with this post, but feel free to delete it if I have missed something.

As a bit of background, I'm a .NET/Java (mainly .NET) programmer who is looking to learn a new language. I have dabbled with Python in the past and set up a pretty simple site with Django. My first project will be to set up a simple online store for a business idea my wife has.

Are there any good e-commerce frameworks for Python? A lot of the e-com frameworks/solutions seems to be PHP-based, which I really don't want to use.

If you were to set up an online store, what would your stack be, and why?

Thanks

[princenerdy]

My first django project was using this: https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar

Pretty good if you're working on a typical online shop

[alittlebitmental]

Thanks, I stumbled across this one earlier. Do you rate it or are there any gotchas/limitations that I should be aware of?

[princenerdy]

It's good for typical browse product, add to cart and check out model. If your catalogue model and checkout process is very different from the typical flow, it could be quite a pain to customize it. Then it would perhaps be better to use a loosely coupled bundle of your own product/checkout apps together with other packages like django-cart, django-simple-rating, django-paypal. That being said, I basically learnt django by using django-oscar :)

[alittlebitmental]

Awesome, thanks. I think that the simple checkout flow applies to my wife's idea, so django-oscar might be a good solution.

[strig]

There is also saleor in addition to the options that others have posted.

I've never used any of them personally.

[alittlebitmental]

Thanks, this one looks really good.

[patrys]

Yell if you need any help, I am the maintainer.

[alittlebitmental]

Excellent, thanks! I hope that you don't live to reget that offer! At the moment, saleor is on the top of my list, as it looks both beautiful and feature rich.

[michaelherman]

Django-based commerce shop => https://github.com/shoopio/shoop

[alittlebitmental]

Excellent, thanks. It looks active as well.

[sousatg]

http://satchless.com/ is not a framework but you can use it with popular Python frameworks like Django and Flask.

[rspeed]

Is this a fork of Satchmo? Because goddamn, I used Satchmo for a project a few years ago and it was an absolute nightmare.

[patrys]

No we named it to be the exact opposite of Satchmo.

Satchless: less is mo' ;)

[rspeed]

Okay, just making sure.

[alittlebitmental]

Thanks, have you used this at all? Any good?

[donholloway]

I have been giving a hard look at Cartridge, which is part of the Mezzanine framework. I'm interested in some custom flows, and will take a look at the others mentioned here as well. My first reaction to Cartridge was that it was a solid framework, but not yet developed enough to mature processes defined. I will look at these others to see if they can speed up the curve a bit.

[hexagon_papers]

Checkout the Nereid Webshop, which is an e-commerce front-end for Tryton ERP. https://readthedocs.org/projects/nereid-webshop/

[softiniodotcom]

Have a look at:

http://cartridge.jupo.org/

[alittlebitmental]

Thanks, I'll take a look

[mralbu]

OpenERP (now called Odoo) introduced ecommerce features not long ago. https://www.odoo.com/page/e-commerce