DuxCommerce - a free Orchard Core commerce module

[duxonline]

Today I'm happy to introduce DuxCommerce - a complete Orchard Core ecommerce solution. If you are interested in the module, you can download its source code here. Thank you.

• Product Listing

• Shopping Cart

• Checkout

• Order Manager

• Your Account

• Product Variants

• Coupons

• Promotions

[giannik]

will it be open sourced?

[duxonline]

will it be open sourced?

It will be free and I am planning to share C# code with people who are interested in this project. I haven't decided on licence yet. I am interested to hear what the community has to say. So everyting is open to discussion at this stage.

[rwxzig]

I am interested, so let us know where to subscribe. I started a similar project too because I found the ecommerce project a bit complicated for me, so I wanted to learn by doing something.

[Piedone]

This is very nice, though any particular reason why you didn't instead contribute what you feel missing to Orchard Core Commerce?

[duxonline]

@Piedone first thank you for dojo course. When I was comparing OrchardCore with Umbraco, your course made a difference. Without it, nothing would happen or I might go with Umbraco. Actually when I was watching your videos, I was dreaming about working for Lombiq some day. 😄 That's how impressed I was by the work you guys had done.

There are a few reasons that I started this project instead of contributing to OrchardCore Commerce module. I highlight a couple of them here.

When people ask me for advice on eCommerce solution, I always recommend Shopify because of its ease of use. The ideal solution I want to build is to hide all technical concepts like content fields, content parts, content types, etc, from end users. For example, if a user wants to enable stock tracking for a product, he should be able to do that by ticking a check box. He doesn't have to know product type or an inventory part and how to add inventory part to product type. I think this is a very fundamental difference.

The second reason has to do with coding styles or taste. When I tried to understand Commerce module code, I was struggling because I felt I had to deal with two things at the same time, content management concepts and ecommerce logic. Ecommerce itself is complex enough and adding content management to it frustrated me. A lot of times its code was just over my head. With DuxCommerce, my goal is to deal with one of them at any given time.

There are other reasons as well, but I leave them for another day.

[effapp]

Hi @duxonline ,

Can you provide Product management demo, please?

Can you debate how to achive "hide all technical concepts like content fields, content parts, content types, etc, from end users" in your solution?

[hishamco]

What exactly you are looking for @effapp I might help you on this, or you can check Orchard Core Commerce repo

[effapp]

Hi @hishamco ,

I just want to refer to the implementation ideas.

[hishamco]

I thought you are looking for something that we can help you with

[duxonline]

@effapp I will. Thank you

[hishamco]

I appreciate your efforts @duxonline let us know when you open source the project, moreover, I suggest to link it in Orchard Core Commerce and contribute to that project as @Piedone suggested unless there are some reasons to driver your project by your own of the community

[giannik]

@duxonline are there plans to open source this ? I like the UI and the simplicity.

[duxonline]

@giannik I'm still working on variant images: https://github.com/orgs/DuxCommerce/projects/4. I haven't made much progress recently due to other commitments.

I am planning to share C# code with people who are interested in the project. Please register your interest here: https://github.com/DuxCommerce/DuxCommerce.Community/discussions

[giannik]

done

[duxonline]

@giannik @effapp I am testing the commerce module on Orchard Core 2.1.3 and will share C# source code with you in the next few days once the testing is finished.

[giannik]

can help with testing too.

[effapp]

Thanks.

[duxonline]

@giannik @effapp @rwxzig @mattdunndc I have sent an invite to you guys. You should have access to the source code after accepting it.

[hishamco]

Is it OSS or private access?

[duxonline]

It's invite only. Thank you.

[hishamco]

Please invite me

I was suggesting to open source the module to get the feedback from others, and open the possibility for contributions. Otherwise Orchard Commerce might be a suitable option for all the folks

[duxonline]

Thank you @hishamco. Invite sent as requested.

[duxonline]

A Getting Started guide can be found here.

[hishamco]

You need to create a recipe to populate a dummy data

[duxonline]

@hishamco That can be done. In the meantime, I am planning to create a demo store that people can download and run on their local.

[duxonline]

After some discussions with different community members, we have decided to release the source code of DuxCommerce storefront under MIT license. The source code can be downloaded here.

A demo store is also included in the download. Any feedback is welcome. Thank you.

[duxonline]

This question has been asked multiple times by community. Let's answer it for all.

Our goal for this project is to build a feature-rich, user-friendly and highly extensible shopping cart system, making Orchard Core a competitive eCommerce platform.

[duxonline]

DuxCommerce has been upgraded to OrchardCore 2.1.5. The project is under active development. If you think it may be useful for your future projects, please consider starring and watching the repository.

[duxonline]

DuxCommerce UI was built by backend engineers, and we’d love insights from front-end developers, web designers, and UX experts. If you have any suggestions for improvement, we’d greatly appreciate your feedback.