Grandioso Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 We're currently looking to create a new website for a client who's a major retailer/reseller. They basically want 3 websites: - a retail site, selling directly to customers - a wholesale site, selling to other businesses - a consumer blog They already have a stock control and order management system in place. We're looking for the best solution we can come up with and I thought you guys could give me some ideas. My idea was, since they already have stock control and order management systems, to use a massive Wordpress multisite for all 3 websites, make a plug-in to handle the communication between the site and the SCS. We would also like to implement some features like 'popular items', 'recently viewed', 'sales reports; etc, which WP is not really good for. Any ideas ? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276964-best-cms-for-a-big-retailwholesale-site-blog/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 I would suggest that the best CMS to go with is likely the one you know best. Any CMS is quite capable of the functionality providing they are being setup by a developer in the know. Personally, I would be more inclined to go down the bespoke path, maybe starting with a CMS framework such as Symfony2 CMF. I guess it depends on your time frame and budget though. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276964-best-cms-for-a-big-retailwholesale-site-blog/#findComment-1424811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
annaharris Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 If you are planning to develop Big/ Dynamic website then ASP is the best, otherwise you can use PHP. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276964-best-cms-for-a-big-retailwholesale-site-blog/#findComment-1425041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 If you are planning to develop Big/ Dynamic website then ASP is the best, otherwise you can use PHP. You my friend are either misinformed, ignorant or both. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276964-best-cms-for-a-big-retailwholesale-site-blog/#findComment-1425047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradlySpicer Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 You my friend are either misinformed, ignorant or both. I would guess just a spammer, or someone who is just illiterate with terminology. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276964-best-cms-for-a-big-retailwholesale-site-blog/#findComment-1425048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandioso Posted April 16, 2013 Author Share Posted April 16, 2013 I was Googling for a couple of hours and the best solution I could come up with was to either use Drupal, or WP and build the site around them. E-commerce solutions, such as Magento only make sense when they handle the stocks, am I right ? This client already has a stock control in place and they also want to use shopatron, which I understand works as a shopping cart / order manager (?). Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276964-best-cms-for-a-big-retailwholesale-site-blog/#findComment-1425050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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