Hello,
I just came across Oscar and it looks very interesting. I looked into the docs but still couldn't figure out some of the basic concepts- now hoping that somebody could help me :-)
- The definition of Oscar is: "Oscar is an e-commerce framework for Django designed for building domain-driven sites."
Now, what exactly is a 'domain-driven site'? Even the hoster of this Newsgroup couldn't give me an answer ;-)
- In the context of e-commerce there are a lot of terms - sometimes used as synonyme sometimes in contradictory meanings....
Concerning Oscar I read 'multi site' / 'multi tenancy'
What exactly is meant by 'tenant'? It could point into the direction of an 'multi vendor shop', i.e. a marketplace with many independent shops fom many vendors (= tenants?), e.g. eBay, etsy, Amazon marketplace, etc.
Thanks for your help in advance
Cheers
Paul
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- Now, what exactly is a 'domain-driven site'? Even the hoster of this Newsgroup couldn't give me an answer ;-)
In short, Oscar allows virtually any part of it to be customised so you can bend it to accurately model your business, rather than having to alter your business processes to work with some e-commerce software.I appreciate it's a bit woolly.
PS - The DDD book by Eric Evans is excellent if you haven't read it already:
- Concerning Oscar I read 'multi site' / 'multi tenancy'
I can't find the words "multi site" or "tenancy" anywhere in Oscar's docs - where did you see them?
What exactly is meant by 'tenant'? It could point into the direction of an 'multi vendor shop', i.e. a marketplace with many independent shops fom many vendors (= tenants?), e.g. eBay, etsy, Amazon marketplace, etc.I suppose it's normally used to mean a single codebase that serves several shops/tenants. Each tenant would normally have it's own URL and possibly sell a subset of the overall catalogue. They would have different CMS/merchandising content too. You basically need lots of foreign keys to the Site model :)Oscar provide that much support for this by default, but it's easy to extend Oscar's models to add the fields you need. This is something I'd like to review before we get to 1.0 but it's a few months off at the moment tbh.
Just to make me better understand:
My plan is to build a so called 'multi-vendor-shop', i.e. a marketplace, something in the structure of eBay, etsy shop, etc. In this structure you have someone who runs the marketplace, you have vendors, that rent shops in this marketplace and pay commissions to the marketplace owners (flat or by revenue) and last but not least you have buyers that go through the virtual shops and buy offered items. These consuming buyers can also rate the vendors and products (similar to amazon marketplace, eBay, etc.).
So the questions are:
1) Is it possible to do this with Oscar out of the box?
(Well, probably not)
2) If not: would it make sense to start with Oscar to build a marketplace like this?
3) If yes: Could you give some hints which way to go
2) If not: would it make sense to start with Oscar to build a marketplace like this?
3) If yes: Could you give some hints which way to go
Thanks again in advance!
Cheers
Paul