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@moshemo Laravel’s a PHP framework. It’s entirely possible to create an e-commerce website with it, but obviously it’s a lot more work than using something pre-built. It all depends on your project’s requirements, and budget and timescale.
Apr 19, 2020
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Level 12
Laravel or Something Else for a B2B Ecommerce Site
I am trying to figure out whether or not Laravel is the best solution for the site that we are building.
The site is basically an ecommerce site, but without accepting payments online. Instead, when an order is placed, a purchase order is sent to the supplier (and any other relevant parties). Payments happen later, off-line (at least for now -- perhaps in the future that will change).
In addition to the regular ecommerce site, we want to have a PWA version so that salesman can use the site when visiting clients on-site. They can then either quickly enter in the order or use a bar-code scanner to add items to the cart.
The quesiton now comes to whether or not to use Laravel for this project. Obviously, there are other options available -- such as:
- Shopify
- Big Commerce
- Magento
- Pepperi (https://www.pepperi.com/)
- Handshake (https://www.handshake.com/)
- And more...
I am wondering what people think about using Laravel for such a site as opposed to one of these ready-made solutions. Also, if people do recommend Laravel, do you recommend any particular ecommerce package (if so, which one)?
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