PWGermanShop for ProcessWire – Live Demo

[eutervogel]

I'd like to showcase the demo shop for my ProcessWire shop system.

The demo lets you explore both the frontend and the administration backend. Feel free to log in, place test orders, and try out the available features. The shop automatically resets to its default state every six hours, so you can't accidentally break anything.

If you'd like to receive the email notifications using your real email address, please make sure to delete your order immediately after testing, as your email address will be visible in the backend.

Because this shop system is primarily developed for the German market, the demo shop and the documentation are currently available in German only.

The "Stammdaten" section and the payment methods cannot be edited in the demo to prevent misuse.

Demo:
https://demoshop.mholte.de/

I'd be happy to hear your feedback, suggestions, and bug reports.

Edited Monday at 04:15 PM by eutervogel

[eutervogel]

There was an issue with email delivery because the six-hour reset also reverted the sender address in the "Stammdaten" section back to the placeholder.

I've fixed it, so emails are being sent correctly again.

[Stefanowitsch]

Hi @eutervogel!

I am extremely surprised and impressed. This shop "module" basically came out of nowhere and solves a huge "black hole" in the ProcessWire community: A functional, up-to date and all-in-one shop solution.

I made a shop with Padloper (Version 1) years ago which was one of my first PW projects ever. And in my main job I am working for one of germanys biggest e-commerce shops.

Coming that way I now what immense work setting up, developing and not least maintaining an online shop is nowadays.

You have tons or regularities that you have to take care of and each year something is added. For example: Last year all bigger online shops had to be be overworked due to the German Accessibility Improvement Act now the latest "addition" was the integration of the "electronic cancellation button". 

If you offer a shop solution for a client based on an existing system or "custom made" - you have to be in constant awareness of the legal changes and act immediately. 

Then you have to design the landing page, category pages, product pages, the checkout pages, search pages and the whole customer backend.

Not to mention many many e-mail templates.

Because of that the last shop that I set up for a client was actually a Shopify solution. That still was a ton of work, especially if you consider the countless hours for reading the developer docs and becoming familiar with the Shopify CLI and the whole template/development system (and so on!). 

So it's nice to see that there is a PW alternative now. I like the fact that everything is integrated and the documentation seems to be extremely well planned. I can remember that there was another shop module for PW around that looked promising but offered little to no documentation at all. What a bummer.

[eutervogel]

Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful feedback! It really means a lot, especially coming from someone with your experience in both ProcessWire and professional e-commerce.

The main reason I started developing this shop system was exactly because I felt there was a gap in the ProcessWire ecosystem. I also spent some time looking at PWCommerce, but as you said, the documentation made it very difficult to work with. I also ran into issues with commercial rounding quite early on, and even after quite a bit of tinkering I couldn't really get it to a point where I'd feel comfortable using it for the German market.

You're absolutely right about the long term challenge. Building the shop is one thing, but keeping it up to date with changing legal requirements, security updates and everything else that comes with e commerce is probably the biggest task. That's definitely something I'm aware of, and I'll do my best to keep the project actively maintained.

Development is still moving forward. I actually added customer accounts to the demo shop just a few minutes ago, so it's slowly growing feature by feature.

Thanks again for taking the time to write such detailed feedback. Comments like yours are really motivating and reassure me that building this for the ProcessWire community was the right decision.

Edited 21 hours ago by eutervogel

[Klenkes]

Hi @eutervogel!

I just wanted to tell you that I spent quite some time in the demo shop, testing everything out, and I am pretty impressed with the work you've done!

Of course I lack the experience of Stefanowitsch in this matter, but I ckecked ot all the other shops solutions for PW and all of them are not suited for EU use. 

This is something I could work with and/or suggest to a client. In the past I had to refuse all requests for a shop...

If you are short of testers? I am more than willing to help!

Bernd