Introduction
Cart is an extension providing a shopping solution for TYPO3.
Description
The extension is a small but powerful extension which "solely" adds a shopping cart to your TYPO3 installation and is well suited for content commerce.
The extension allows you to add products to a cart and handles the order process completely.
There are other awesome extensions to handle various types of products. Furthermore, you will find some payment provider extensions to add payment methods to the checkout process. Have a look at Other cart extensions.
Features
- Makes intensive use of the TYPO3 Core API functionality (is "TYPO3-native").
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Easily expandable:
- Multiple PSR-14 events and interfaces
- API (finisher pipeline) to process the order with possibility to register own tasks
- API to add payment providers
- API to connect your own product extensions
- Highly configurable through TypoScript
- Proved Bootstrap templates
- Backend module to show and utilize orders
Aspects to decide whether to choose EXT:cart or another shop solution
Arguments when to use EXT:cart
- TYPO3-native shop: The shop is fully integrated in TYPO3. Your customer do not have to learn another system. And you (or your developer) does not have to learn another system as well.
- TYPO3 know how: You know how to work with TYPO3 (or have access to a TYPO3 integrator and/or TYPO3 developer).
- Small project: It's Suitable for smaller projects (see arguments against using EXT:cart).
- Free open-source: It's free and open source :)
Arguments when NOT to use EXT:cart
- Codeless configuration: Other shop solutions may not demands any coding skills but for EXT:cart you need at least to know how to integrate an extension and how to set TypoScript configuration.
- Simultaneous orders: Products in the cart are not reserved for the customer. That means if another customer buys the last article in between the customer who added the product first to the cart will get an error during the checkout that the product is not available any longer.
- Complex products: With the extension EXT:cart_products you can define FE variants and BE variants which allows to make products customizable. But the amount of customization is limited. The amount of BE variant combinations is for example limited to three. Due to this it would for example not be possible to make a shop for bicycles where the customer can configure all aspects of a bicycle.
- Upselling: There are no advanced functionalities like upselling.
- Customer support: As it is open source it is not possible to get paid support. It's of course possible to get support from the community but it's not guaranteed to get the needed help.
Showcases
Examples of websites which use this extension as e-commerce solution.
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