SmartStore.NET

Hi,

Is it possible to incorporate design & themes from SmartStore.NET into nopCommerce?.
They have done great work on these areas that can help nopCommerce users a lot.


Thanks,
El-Sayed

its shame they decided to "fork", they've really done lots and lots of work on the frontend side.

At my company we are looking for a cart to replace our current one - magento. I've been following and evaluating nopcommerce for some time now and found it a fairly stable project. From my point of view, it has few week points though.

* speed (but there are few read-made solutions to this problem)
* scalability/high availability support
* not best in class comunity-oriented plugin/extension infrastructure
* poor frontend

Smartstore.NET seems to target the last 2 topics. I haven't gone through the code yet, or test it in real-world simulated workloads, but my front-end specialist is in love with what they've done.

If nothing else, some ideas might be worth considering a roadmap material.

Its a fork of nopCommerce and looking at its features.. they seems to add features that nopCommerce also needed...

Specially...

Better theming
WebApi
Online Plugin & Themes Gallery
AutoUpdater
Product bundles
Media Manager
Rewrite Variant System
Better catalog management
Multi-Tenancy


Theme is definitely great! And if its a fork then yes, their theme might be used with nopCommerce. Let me know if someone is interested so we can look into that!

jariwalakrunal wrote:
None of these features are implemented yet. It's just the roadmap. The same items (7 of 8) are on the official nopCommerce roadmap.

Currently it's just a copy of nopCommerce with the new theme + some German market oriented plugins. It has more cons than pros for me.

martin_1980 wrote:

I agree with you!

By the way, it also does not have any of the latest nopCommerce features such as multi-store, multi-vendor, etc

Nevertheless it's true that the design of the front-end and back-end is good.

As mentioned, it does have some amazing front end features.  I really like the capability for the product images and also the tabs.  As seen here (http://www.smartstore-net.com/DEMO/FRONTEND/en/acer-aspire-one-756-295-cm-116-zoll-netbook).  It also has a nice add to cart animation.

I have one question though, doesn't it still need the powered by nopcommerce link at the bottom?  I thought that if your fork was based off nopcommerce it would have to have a powered by nopcommerce link.  Is this the case?  I don't see one on the demo store.  Is there one on the source code?  Thanks!

I found this in their license.txt file

SmartStore.NET is a derivation of 'nopCommerce' and licensed under LGPL
Please find more info here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
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they also have this in footer.cshtml

<div class="footer-disclaimer container clearfix">
    @if (Model.ShowLegalInfo)
    {
        <div class="footer-legal pull-left">
            @Html.Raw(Model.LegalInfo)
        </div>
    }
    <div class="pull-right">@T("Content.CopyrightNotice", DateTime.Now.Year.ToString(), @Model.StoreName)</div>
</div>

not sure if that displays powered by nopCommerce though as I have not installed it yet.

It is possible they paid for copyright removal on their own demo page.

It seems that Content.CopyrightNotice pulls the store name so I'm guessing that they do not have the required copyright notice.

Agree with others though, nicer GUI on both the store and admin section.

Would like to get a comment from the developers of nopCommerce licensing of SmartStore.net