magnolia-module-shop should offer default shop functionallity to be added to a magnolia CMS environment. In its core, it will provide a flexible data structure and a set of classes for handling the data. It is then up to the integrator to define the look and behavior of the shop. To get people started, a default shop implementation will be included in the module.

The data model is pretty straight forward and resembles well known shop systems like osCommerce or others. Its key features are:

• Multilingual: Each entity which needs to be described has several description entities (one for each language)
• Multiple price categories / currencies: Each product can have several prices (one for each price category). Each price category is of a certain currency.
• Hierarchical product categories: Product categories are structured in a hierarchical way. To keep thinks simple, a product category can only have one super category. If multiple super categories are absolutely necessary for an integrator "shop category aliases" can be used (i.e. shop category "copies" which reference an other shop category).
•  Multitenancy: This has no direct affect on the shop module. To allow the setup of multiple independant shops in one magnolia, the whole data structure will be copied several times and kept in their own data module root folders.

The following is a very compact list of features the shop module should offer/support. The number in parenthesis before each requirement refelcts the priority of the feature where 1 means "an absolute necessity" and 3 "nice to have" or "at a later release".

• (1) Data structure according to model above
• (1) Setup shop for language and price category / ability to switch language
• (1) Navigate through product categories and list the products of each category
• (1) Add products to shopping cart
• (1) View shopping cart
• (1) Edit (quantity) and delete cart items
• (1) Check out by providing billing and shipping information
• (1) Save shopping cart in the exact form as it the goods were ordered by the customer (incl. all billing and shipping information, all products, descriptions, price category, currency, prices, discounts...)
• (2) Search for products
• (2) Register as customer / login to identify yourself
• (2) Display the prices in the price category stored in the customer account
• (2) Custom dialogs to enter / manage products, product categories, price categories
• (3) Import / export functionallity for shop data
• (3) Integration of commonly used e-payment interfaces
• (3) "Configurable" products (e.g. color, size, versions etc.)

A "proof of concept" is already up and running. Developers interested in joining the project should now contact us (see mail address in the column on the right), so we can coordinate the efforts. If you have any questions regarding the module or would like to propose an additional feature etc. please do not hesitate to contact us too.