Need some suggestions on picking up the best combination

[William Dai]

Guys,

I am working on a marketplace like project and currently am evaluating the possibilities of integration.

What I am looking for:

An e-commerce which also works well with a CMS

A phpBB style forum which also work well with other components and use same login.  forum can be simple.

Friendly to mobile app development

Here are the options that I think they may work and the questions:

Option a:

e-commerce: oscar

CMS: Django-CMS

Forum: pyBBM

payment system -- stripe  (django-stripe, does it work with oscar?)

Option b:

e-commerce: Cartridge

CMS: Mezzanine

Forum: pyBBM

payment system -- stripe  (django-stripe)

The Wagtail seems promising as a CMS but I could not find anything related to integrating with e-commerce/payment/forum etc.

Any comments on above options appreciated.  This would help me decide the right way to go since once we commit, we would need to stick to the decision for long time.  The project is a longterm project and could grow to become a large website.

Anyone know a live django based website which uses above three components? (i.e. e-commerce, CMS and forum)

Thanks,

William

[Scot Hacker]

On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 4:03:46 AM UTC-7, William Dai wrote:

Any comments on above options appreciated.  This would help me decide the right way to go since once we commit, we would need to stick to the decision for long time.  The project is a longterm project and could grow to become a large website.

The philosophy of almost the entire Django ecosystem is one of modularity and re-usability - everything is designed for integration (but you'll have to do the integration yourself). Choices between Wagtail or Django-CMS, stripe or other, oscar or cartridge are really non-questions. Pick the tools you like best and go for it. 

I do really love Wagtail - that would be my pick for the CMS component for sure. 

./s