Let's discuss the upcoming integration of nopCommerce and Umbraco

I'm surprised there's not more positivity around this. I don't feel qualified in either Umbraco or NopCommerce to offer suggestions as to the implementation but can you imagine how fantastic a solution this would be bearing in mind the strengths of both platforms?

Please forge ahead with this guys ASAP. I for one am eagerly awaiting this to come to fruition and will be sure to use when available.

By the way I suppose we don't need to map all nop customers with Umbraco members. Actually this step is nice to have but I suppose it's not required. Usually we need Umbraco just for 3-5 content editors and nop for 1000 customers. So we can use nop pages to login/checkout and umbraco for the content.

Hi,

will the Api have any options for integration that will help for creating menus, and widgets in the umbracco site but getting the items from the nopcommerce database using umbracco macros?

It plans to use custom Umbraco Data Types. Which in turn will work with the API

Dear colleagues!

It seems that we don't have many suggestions on minimum functions and integration variants. Then we will share our vision of this integration. Maybe it will be a good base for your further suggestions on functionality. Here it is:


We can divide the scheme into three individual parts:
1. nopCommerce. We are unlikely to change anything crucial in nopCommerce, the changes would be minimal and mainly related to API interaction. Maybe, absolutely nothing will be changed on nopCommerce core
2. Web API plugin. It'll be developed by our solution partners nop-templates. It'll be finished and release soon
3. Umbraco plugin. This is what we will develop.

Now let’s examine how these parts will work together.
nopCommerce and Umbraco will be installed as separate applications. We presume that the Umbraco plugin should contain new DataType(s) allowing a store owner to choose what elements an administrator might want to display on Umbraco pages. The primary DataTypes will be the following ones: product box(es), product page, category navigation block, shopping cart, checkout pages. On further development, this selection will be widened by adding new DataTypes. We will also add extension methods for getting the presentation module and rendering both with the embedded or customized templates situated in the structure of Umbraco. The Umbraco plugin will also contain a mapping table between "Umbraco members" and "nopCommerce customers". We'll keep them in synchronization.

What do you think?

By the way I suppose we don't need to map all nop customers with Umbraco members. Actually this step is nice to have but I suppose it's not required. Usually we need Umbraco just for 3-5 content editors and nop for 1000 customers. So we can use nop pages to login/checkout and umbraco for the content.
You are mixing up Umbraco Users (the 3-5 content editors) with Umbraco Members, which are customers with access to private areas of the site.
The integration of nop Customers with Umbraco members is mandatory in my opinion and both sites should work with SSO. When viewing an umbraco page, a signed in nop customer should still see her shopping cart, the My Account button, etc. plus all the members only content from Umbraco.

It plans to use custom Umbraco Data Types. Which in turn will work with the API

ok, then I'm glad we're not duplicating an effort - we have some code that works this way for nopCommerce entities, but there is no umbracco code yet, our nopcommerce editor is too compliated for mass-consumption but using umbracco macros is very well documented so the theory is we won't have excessive support requests if we use umbracco code to do this. I've seen the Umbraco integration project on GitHub briefly which I'll need to digest as it looks quite thorough already.

thanks,