I evaluated a significant number of populate e-Commerce engines and amongst them I only found a very few with recurring product support.
If you are familiar with ordering from Amazon.com, Amazon offers the ability to order items such as groceries on a recurring/scheduled basis. With Amazon, you can even specify the frequency on which you want the order to be purchased and shipped to you.
Unfortunately, with all of these ASP.NET-based e-Commerce engines, none of them offer the level of sophistication as is offered by Amazon.com in terms of recurring product support. All of them simply offer the ability to specify a product as a recurring product and specify a recurrence frequency.
The products that I discovered that provide recurring product support are the following:
Not surprisingly, all of these products exhibited product defects in their ability to support recurring products:
If you are familiar with ordering from Amazon.com, Amazon offers the ability to order items such as groceries on a recurring/scheduled basis. With Amazon, you can even specify the frequency on which you want the order to be purchased and shipped to you.
Unfortunately, with all of these ASP.NET-based e-Commerce engines, none of them offer the level of sophistication as is offered by Amazon.com in terms of recurring product support. All of them simply offer the ability to specify a product as a recurring product and specify a recurrence frequency.
The products that I discovered that provide recurring product support are the following:
- AspDotNetStoreFront--http://www.aspdotnetstorefront.com/default.aspx
- VevoCart--http://vevocart.com/
- nopCommerce--http://www.nopcommerce.com/
Not surprisingly, all of these products exhibited product defects in their ability to support recurring products:
- AspDotNetStoreFront--While checking out, a customer is unable to actually view the frequency on which the product recurs. Instead, the product is indicated as simply being a recurring product and that is all the information the customer is provided with in their shopping cart.
- VevoCart--While checking out, a product that has recurring support, a customer is not even able to select a payment method to pay for the recurring item!!
- nopCommerce--While nopCommerce definitely displays the best overall feature support for recurring products, it is limited to a single item in the shopping basket for checkout and I was never able to successfully integrate PayPal Direct or PayPal Standard to pay for my items on checkout. The only successful payment gateway I was able to integrate was Authorize.Net.
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