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Sorry, I know this is mean, but the above title is pure search engine bait to help jump-start a discussion on the topic of running a shopping cart in DotNetNuke.
In my humble opinion, DNN and ecommerce is still a marriage made in hell.
Major players such as CATALooK.netStore and Portal Store are plagued by complex install and upgrade procedures, poor documentation and lackluster support. I like to argue that none of the currently available shopping cart modules enable you to professionally run an online store even if you only offer a handful of products.
The prevalent problem I see is that all of these solutions have been architected by programmers instead of marketers. While these modules may function as advertised, shoppers are confronted with lengthy checkout processes and a subpar user experience overall. For instance after adding an item to your card, by default CATALooK refreshes the page instead of showing the contents of the cart on a separate page. Usability shortcomings like these cause a great number of abandoned carts and have a direct impact on the bottom line of the store. Further problems arise due to the ignorance towards search engines. Portal Store has improved in this area, whereas CATALook is still totally oblivious to Google and company.
There is light at the end of the tunnel though. AspDotNetStorefront is currently working on an implementation for DotNetNuke. From our experience, ASPDNSF is a flexible and feature-rich shopping cart on all fronts. If things come together as planned, this combination of ASPDNSF and DNN should finally deliver the marriage in heaven we’ve all been waiting for.
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