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I am aware of Cubecart, zen cart and other, but I am not sure it’s easy to install them in Modx.
We have a number of MODx and Cubecart sites for the same domain/company
Whilst these are integrated from a design and navigation point of view they will not deliver the full integration that you may seek, e,g using the same code snippets, chunks in the Cart.
However - depending on your clients needs it can be OK to use a separate cart. For example if you visit apple, you have a store tab which takes you into the store. if you can mostly keep your products store separate for the documents in Modx, then this may be a viable and low cost solution for you
And if (I am sure fellow MODx’ers will forgive me here) your clients needs are 80 -99% store, many cart solutions offer a level of CMS capability, although products like Cubecart dont come close to the CMS features of MODx. Getting to grips with many Cart solutions is also not do daunting, it just takes time or find a freelancer to help you if its a one-off project.
Oh, and on the subject of a MODx store, with so many alternative products out there, I would personally like to see a product catalogue as a first step. There are a lot of CMS customers who don’t need or want to sell but who do which to put their products and related information on line so the ability to have a module where part code, title. description, weight, Pdf link, cost etc could be automated in a form would be very nice
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Ditto and a few TVs makes for a dead simple catalog solution.
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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