Any plans for providing upgrade path in future builds after this (Nov 11th) downloadable build?

[Ismu the dev]

If I install this build, will there be upgrade path provided in future
builds or I should just wait for a more stable build to come?
Basically what is the status of the project and the future roadmap?

[Mike Hadlow]

Hi Ismu,

Thanks for your interest in Suteki Shop.

> If I install this build, will there be upgrade path provided in future
> builds or I should just wait for a more stable build to come?

I always supply DB upgrade scripts whenever the schema changes, these
should allow you to keep the project current and migrate site as the
platform evolves.

> Basically what is the status of the project and the future roadmap?

Suteki Shop has been used in production for several years now, it's
pretty stable. I add features as I have time, or when customers pay
for them.

I'm expecting to do some work in the next couple weeks, which will
include:
- Upgrading to MVC3 including NuGet dependency management.
- Better stock control facilities (an actual stock count against SKU
that gets decremented on each sale)
- Some nice graphical reports of sales, volumes etc. To be decided.

Further out there are bigger improvements I'd like to make:
- Re-introducing multi-tenancy. (this worked with Linq-to-SQL, but was
lost in the move to NHibernate)
- User accessible site templating. This would enable Suteki Shop to be
offered as SaaS, something like shopify.
- Plugable payment options, paypal, google checkout etc.
- Product search
- REST API

But these all depend on having the time to implement them.

[Ismu the dev]

Hi Mike,

I'm feeling privileged to have you reply personally. Thanks very much.
All sounds cool.

One humble request is that add whatever feature you want to add, but
for god's sake please keep it simple as it is today.

A great thing about this project is that you are using a lot of
ALT.NET stuff.

Also you may want to put these question in FAQ on your project home
page.