Python e-commerce frameworks

There are a lot of e-commerce frameworks in PHP and one pretty cool in Ruby on Rails(https://github.com/spree/spree), but now I will tell this field in python.

Key features I’m caring about:

Functional requirements

• Multilingual (dashboard or admin panel in Chinese)
• Product Types (different product may have different fields)
• Search (build-in one will save your time)
• Customer Accounts (store customer related things)
• Dynamic Categories (the requirements change all the time, so make this part more generic)
• Price sorting/filtering (products always need sorting and filtering)
• Payment Methods (should be an independent one as we will integrate a niche payment provider)
• Wishlist (store products and shops)

Developing requirements

• Documented (the important one as e-commerce website is much complex)
• Development Status (Stable to use)
• Django Version (we need the newer version will have longer support)
• Github stars (we all believe this)
• Easy to use
• API support
• Recent Commits (showing repo dead or not?)

Let’s see some candidates

Django SHOP

• Document: http://django-shop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Github: https://github.com/awesto/django-shop
• Multilingual: False
• Development Status: Unknown
• Version: 0.9.3
• Easy: Yes
• Django Version: 1.9+
• API: Yes

Django Oscar

• Document: http://django-oscar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
• Github: https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar
• Development Status: Production/Stable
• Version: 1.3.0
• Django Version: 1.8.8+
• Easy: No
• API: Yes

Shuup

• Document: http://shuup.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
• Github: https://github.com/shuup/shuup
• Multilingual: False
• Development Status: Stable
• Version: 0.6.0
• Easy: No
• Django Version: 1.8+
• API: Yes

Cartridge

• Document: http://cartridge.jupo.org/
• Github: https://github.com/stephenmcd/cartridge
• All based on Mezzanine
• Version: 0.12.0
• API: No
• If you use Mezzanine before, this will be the better choose

Finally, I choose django-oscar, as

• I need Chinese support, it has 95% finished in Chinese.
• It has more stars;
• It is django style design, complex but has more documents;
• It is much more flexible with dynamic design, so I can customize it to meet my requirements.

Refs

https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/ecommerce/