Answered What e-commerce platform/CMS is most like ModX?

I'm building an e-commerce site with OpenCart and after using ModX I find it really difficult and rigid to adapt.

Does anyone know of a good e-commerce platform or CMS that is like ModX Revo (has template variables, chunks and options for multiple templates)?

I'm working on a project, where we combine MODX with prestaShop,
We can call MODX inside all presta-shop controllers and modules and have created some custom-moduls with custom-hooks.
So we can insert MODX-chunks, where needed, into all places at the shop.
Many parts, which haven't todo directly with products, like the header, footer and sidebar are rendered from MODX.
We have created a xpdo-schema of the prestaShop-tables, so we can use migxLoopCollection to render presta-parts dynamically.

User-management and the products/checkout-part is all done by presta.
Special CMS-pages and special parts of renderings, where we need to combine shop-parts with presta-parts, are done by MODX
The cartbox is called by ajax by default, so that wasn't a big problem to include it on all MODX-pages, too.

simple content-only shop-relevant-CMS-pages are created within presta.

I think, this way we have the best of both systems.
A full-featured shop-system and the flexibility of MODX for some special parts and pages.

Just use Shopify.

Magento does 90% of what you want but it's so complicated you can only use 80% of it = 72%

Shopify does 80% of what you want but it's simple so you can use the full 80%, which is greater than 72%.

Think about designing your shop to fit within the limitations of Shopify and concentrate on selling, not re-inventing another CMS wheel would be my advice.

Quote from: sparkyhd at Sep 23, 2014, 03:54 PM

Just use Shopify.
Shopify does 80% of what you want but it's simple so you can use the full 80%, which is greater than 72%.

I'm going to strongly support sparky's vote on Shopify. I just finished launching a shop with them this week. MODX handles all of the non-shop content on www.mydomain.com on a general-purpose Web host's server, while Shopify handles the store on store.mydomain.com on their own server. A MODX weblink puts the store on the MODX menus, and a static bit of HTML within the Shopify template puts the MODX menu items on the store menu. I do recognize the limitation of the static menu HTML; for this application it was fine.

The Shopify template editor is very flexible, and I was able to get the store pages (other than checkout) 100% matching the visuals of the MODX-hosted pages because the HTML/CSS/JS of the store templates is in the store owner's control. I was able to get the checkout 85% of the way there (because Shopify controls the HTML of this page), but still quite compatible with the rest of the site(s).

But... I think most important of all... all of the PCI compliance pain, and all e-commerce (security, most imporantly) software updates are completely and automatically handled by Shopify. To my -- and my clients' -- eyes, this is a huge cost and risk mitigation. Lastly, for what's delivered, the price is very affordable.