What is the best CMS to choose for creating online stores in 2020 with the following features (see inside)?

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Please tell me the best CMS (can be paid, but preferably free) for creating online stores with the following features.

1. Convenient creation of product variations.
Now I will explain. Before that I worked with Modx. It is very problematic to make product variations there. It is necessary either to create different resources (pages) with the same name, description, etc., but with a different price and some characteristic (for example, color). And then, in order to change the description of one product, you need to go through all its variations (pages) and change it. It is very uncomfortable. Or write some crutches to create variations (and then somehow bind these crutches to the store plugin, which is responsible for adding to the cart, placing an order, etc.).

2. Communication with 1C. To be able to upload products to the site from 1C. And when selling goods, send data from the site - balances (the number of goods has decreased) and other documents (invoice, for example, etc.).

3. Convenience when creating a delivery calculation (SDEK, Russian Post ...) from different cities.
In the same Modx, for this you need to buy and configure additional. plugins.
Maybe some CMS has this feature out of the box? Or with free plugins.

4. Payment module. In Modx, the story is the same as with the delivery calculation - you need to buy and configure additional plugins.

I am also considering options for some ready-made assemblies on the CMS (maybe the CMS itself does not fit the description very well here. But here's the assembly on it - yes). Even if it's paid. The main thing is not to be very expensive.

Please share who uses what to create such stores?

Answer 1

Because If you've worked with MODX, I recommend taking a look at the October CMS . Many adherents of the withering MODX are moving, just in time for October. On the latter, by the way, there are many different stores, unlike 2-3 solutions on MODX:

1. Shopaholic
   
2. JKShop
   
3. Mall
   
4. OctoCart
   
5. OctoCommerce
   
6. EasyShop
   
7. microcart
   

But perhaps only Shopaholic and Mall are worth considering seriously. Next, I will give examples for Shopaholic.

1. Convenient creation of product variations.
Now I will explain. Before that I worked with Modx. It is very problematic to make product variations there. It is necessary either to create different resources (pages) with the same name, description, etc., but with a different price and some characteristic (for example, color). And then, in order to change the description of one product, you need to go through all its variations (pages) and change it. It is very uncomfortable. Or write some crutches to create variations (and then somehow bind these crutches to the store plugin, which is responsible for adding to the cart, placing an order, etc.).

MODX fans love it very much for the resource tree. But today it is an objectively outdated format for structuring content. In the case of an online store, it will not provide flexibility in placing products in different categories if necessary (so-called Wildcard URLs). At Shopaholic, each product has a so-called. offers that can override the basic data specified in the product description.
This is how editing a product

looks like: this is how editing an offer looks like:

And there is also a plugin Flat Offer Editor for Shopaholic , which offers editing offers in this form:

2. Communication with 1C. To be able to upload products to the site from 1C. And when selling goods, send data from the site - balances (the number of goods has decreased) and other documents (invoice, for example, etc.).

Import of goods from 1C is possible via CSV or XML. There is no bilateral exchange yet.

3. Convenience when creating a delivery calculation (SDEK, Russian Post ...) from different cities.
In the same Modx, for this you need to buy and configure additional. plugins.
Maybe some CMS has this feature out of the box? Or with free plugins.

There is a separate plugin CDEK for Shopaholic , and there is a plugin ApiShip for Shopaholic , which has dozens of integrations under the hood. The first plugin was compared like this with the similar one for MODX in the community chat in the cart:

4. Payment module. In Modx, the story is the same as with the delivery calculation - you need to buy and configure additional plugins.

First, there is a free Omnipay for Shopaholic plugin with 200 integrations, but you will need to do some coding. If we talk about literally one-click installation, then there are ready-made integrations with 11 acquiring systems, among which there are (PayPal, Stripe, Yandex Kassa, ROBOKASSA, Sberbank, PayKeeper, etc.).

I am also considering options for some ready-made assemblies on the CMS (maybe the CMS itself does not fit the description very well here. But here's the assembly on it - yes). Even if it's paid. The main thing is not to be very expensive.

The average cost of the top 30 popular plugins for popular e-commerce engines, as well as MODX + miniShop and October + Shopaholic as of June 2019 (personally collected statistics):

1. Magento - $199/723
   
2. Prestashop - 105€
   
3. WooCommerce - $82
   
4. OpenCart - 36$
   
5. MODX (miniShop) - $23
   
6. Shopaholic (for today) - $16
   

As they say, think for yourself, decide for yourself. =)

Answer 2

Choose from tops among commercial ones.

Answer 3

Take a look at opencart. Well, according to the text above, if you do on modx:
1. msOptionprice2
2. mSync
3. msShiptor
4. There are paid and free
2, 3, 4 points in any free cms will be decided by a paid module. Analyze the cost of modules, or paid cms with these functions.