README

Why Pimcore E-Commerce Framework

The e-commerce environment has fundamentally changed and e-commerce projects often face new challenges like:

• complex product structures: lots of data attributes, complex product relations, configurable product systems, different sources for products
• complex pricing structures: product dependent price sources, tier pricing, pricing matrices, individual pricing rules, integration of remote pricing services
• complex availability calculations
• thousands customer groups with: customer group specific prices, customer group specific assortments
• individual checkouts: individual integration of backend systems, integration of multi-channel processes into checkout workflow
• individual design
• highly agile projects with changing requirements: 'fail fast', fast changing environments and requirements
• etc.

We think for these challenges a default shop system that pops out of a box, that has a fixed product data model, fixed workflows, a template based frontend and needs to be connected and integrated with other systems via interfaces is not the tool to go for.

We think for these challenges you need...

• a framework for developers to build outstanding e-commerce solutions for customers,
• with a native integration into Pimcore,
• with a component based architecture
• and a strict separation between backend functionality and frontend presentation.

That is the idea behind the E-Commerce Framework of Pimcore. Like Pimcore itself, it is not a ready made system, it is a set of tools and functionality to help building e-commerce applications really fast and flexible.

Provided Functionality in a Nutshell

• Tools for indexing, listing, searching and filtering products
• Implementations of carts, wish lists, comparison lists, etc.
• Concepts for flexible and complex pricing, taxes and availability functionality
• Functionality and tools for implementing checkout processes
• Pricing Rules and Vouchers
• Tools for working with and managing Orders
• Concepts for setting up multi tenant and multi shop solutions

For a first impression have a look at our Demo. For more complex solutions have a look at our case studies.

Working With E-Commerce Framework

Following aspects are short-cuts into the documentation for start working with the E-Commerce Framework:

• Architecture Overview
• Installation and Configuration
• Indexing and Listing Products
• Filtering Products
• Working with Prices
• Working with Carts
• Setting up Checkouts
• Integrating Payment Functionality
• Working with Orders
• Tracking Manager
• Events