Product Features

[gokhankaya]

Hi,

We're considering to buy the software but we have following questions that needs to be answered before we proceed. I asked them with email but it is said that forum would be more convenient.

so please find my questions below, thanks regards.

• I would like to know how contents are stored in the database, are they text, varchar, ntext or nvarchar?
  How do you handle for multi-culture implementation. Could you give me an overview for your internationalization architecture?
  Is it possible to have language support with or without domains per country. For example, do we need to prepare separate domains per langauge? http://www.myshop.de and http://www.myshop.uk or can we have many languages under a single domain?
  Does it have workflow and workflow management?
  Is it possible to assign a responsible person for a product and product group?
  How easy is it to integrate whole system with different systems.
  What kind of data import/export capabilities are offered?
  Do you have documentation for stored procedures and data access tier?
  Do we have chance to see some all or parts of the code before the purchase?
  Did you make any stress test over it? And is it possible to get reports of the test?
  Does it support web farms?
  What kind of caching architectures are implemented?
  How do you handle sessions? In Sql server or web server?
  What is offered as error handling?
  Does it support copyright feature for product images? I mean once somebody uploads a picture of a product, are there any possibility to watermark it realtime? Or put a logo over it automatically?
  Does it support multiple domains per application? For example http://www.myshop1.com and http://www.myshop2.com points to same application.
  How do you handle contents in the system? Are they stored as ntext or nvarchar in the database? I’m asking this to understand if it is needed to have indexing service in the server we want to deploy.
  Do you have build-in Turkish language support ?
  Do you use asp.net 2.0 resource files? Is it easy to add new language support both to database and source codes.
  Do we need to use logo or text in the deployments ? I mean is it royalty free?
  Is utf8 supported ? Both in aspx pages and in the database?
  Does the system allow to make comparison between 2 products?

[midder]

Just want to second all of these questions. Information on internationalization support would be great.

[Shopping Cart Admin]

Hello All,

I'll try to get to the rest of the answer's tonight. I did get the technical questions back from development.

I would like to know how contents are stored in the database, are they text, varchar, ntext or nvarchar?

We used the international versions of field types where it was appropriate – for example we store the IP address in a varchar field because this will only contain numbers and the period, but we store product titles in nvarchar fields because this could contain double-byte characters.

In sql 2000 we use ntext for some fields. In sql 2005, we use nvarchar(max) instead.

What kind of caching architectures are implemented?

Our application uses the System.Web.Caching.Cache features provided by asp.net. Data that commonly requested is stored there.

We also use something we refer to as “context cacheâ€

[Shopping Cart Admin]

Hello,

How do you handle for multi-culture implementation. Could you give me an overview for your internationalization architecture?

Currently we only handle currency.

Is it possible to have language support with or without domains per country. For example, do we need to prepare separate domains per langauge? http://www.myshop.de and http://www.myshop.uk or can we have many languages under a single domain?

A single store couldn't handle multiple domains. With customization multiple stores could each be localized.

Does it have workflow and workflow management?

No you typically only see this in enterprise level software.

Is it possible to assign a responsible person for a product and product group?

No, you can create product admins but they would have rights to the entire catalog.

How easy is it to integrate whole system with different systems.

Our system is very well coded and integration with other systems should be easier than other products you might find.

What kind of data import/export capabilities are offered?

We will have a data port tool which can upload/download store data in CSV and XML format. This tools uses a webservices integration which is also available.

Do you have documentation for stored procedures and data access tier?

Not currently.

Do we have chance to see some all or parts of the code before the purchase?

Yes we could make some of our controls available for your review.

Did you make any stress test over it? And is it possible to get reports of the test?

Yes it's been stress tested and the product is faster than our 5.5 product. The results were not saved and we're on a very slow machine so they wouldn't mean much.

Does it support web farms?

Yes.

Does it support copyright feature for product images? I mean once somebody uploads a picture of a product, are there any possibility to watermark it realtime? Or put a logo over it automatically?

No

Does it support multiple domains per application? For example http://www.myshop1.com and http://www.myshop2.com points to same application.

Yes, but there are limitations.

Do you have build-in Turkish language support ?

No.

Do you use asp.net 2.0 resource files? Is it easy to add new language support both to database and source codes.

Not currently. That is slated for a future release.

Do we need to use logo or text in the deployments ? I mean is it royalty free?

It is required that you purchase a license for every store deployed, so it's not royalty free if I understand your question.

Does the system allow to make comparison between 2 products?

No.

[gokhankaya]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Although 7.0 is still beta, we can buy it and start development & sales with it right? What is the schedule for final release?

And the most important question is, once we buy and make modifications (add product comparison feature for example) will it work with the updates or even with 8.0 ?

I mean there should be guidelines to make developments, at least you should provide us the APIs and parts of the code that will stay as it is in the next versions, so we can create modules depending on that API or functions.

We don't want to throw our efforts with the updates to ablecommerce product.