Re: satchmo customization experiences? customizing existing e-com vs. roll-your-own

Thanks for your honesty, Chris. I'll keep the community posted if we go the Django and/or Satchmo route. On Feb 9, 8:55 am, Chris Moffitt wrote: > Based on the additional details describing what you're trying to do, you may > be reaching the threshold where Satchmo (or any

Re: satchmo customization experiences? customizing existing e-com vs. roll-your-own

Based on the additional details describing what you're trying to do, you may be reaching the threshold where Satchmo (or any current package) is going to have to be so heavily modified that it might make sense to roll your own. It sounds like you're trying to develop almost an ERP type of

Re: satchmo customization experiences? customizing existing e-com vs. roll-your-own

Thanks for your reply, Chris. And thanks for the links. However, the Stack Overflow example seems to be talking about cloning and a tendency of developers to exaggerate their ability to understand the complexity of a piece of software and how long it would take them to do it. My point is not

Re: satchmo customization experiences? customizing existing e-com vs. roll-your-own

You may get some more answers on the Satchmo list but I assume all those folks are on this list too. I'll attempt to provide some answers here because it's probably of interest to the broader community. Whenever I hear people talking about writing something from scratch, I think about these two

satchmo customization experiences? customizing existing e-com vs. roll-your-own

I'm building an order entry and tracking system for a Food Co-op for their case and special orders. We don't need the system to be on-line (at the moment), but many of the system requirements are already present in many existing e-commerce solutions (product catalog/search, order entry screens,