As I’ve mentioned we will be rebuilding our current system from scratch and we will be looking to vastly improve on the CMS functionality, as our system currently lacks a cutting edge in this area. I’ve actually written a new post just about this, which you can find here.

In terms of flexibility, the new system will be well set out and extremely extendable making it a lot easier to add that bit of bespoke functionality that the client is after, which in turn can only lead to further improvement on the system as a whole.

I think it is likely that this new system will actually be v1 and that whilst we are using it in the eCommerce experiment, we will carry out ongoing reviews in terms of functionality and usability. Then we can write up on here about the things we liked, and things we didn’t like, and what we are going to do to improve it, and what we want to add. ☺

Cheers

Chris

Will content-management functionality be fully integrated?
Or will the e-commerce system sit alongside a separate CMS?

It’s often what I find most challenging as clients want e-commerce with powerful CMS (adding new pages, etc.) at the same time but don’t want two different systems with which to do so.

I’m yet to find a decent open-source e-commerce system that is intuitive from both user’s and developer’s point of view, flexible in terms of adding bespoke functionality and one which provides powerful CMS functionality. It sounds like you have had a similar experience.