Hey Guys,
We are developing a site in Liferay to sell wines and are deciding what eCommerce tool to use . We can't afford the Enterprise Edition but we need (among other stuff) to have custom attributes for our products. For example, for a wine we need to set one or more varietals, sugar%, alcohol%, bottle size, sealing type, packaging type, etc...
Is it possible to customize the engine and develop a "custom attributes" module by ourselves?
Other possibility we thought of is having a separate parallel database in which we save all the information for a product that KonaKart does not support. There would be a one-to-one relationship between both konakart and our own databases
Any thoughts or ideas?
Thanks in advance
The Enterprise version gives you so much more than unlimited custom attributes so you may find it cheaper, quicker and more future-proof to use that rather than develop things yourself.
However, there are plenty of custom fields available in the Community Edition.
You can also consider adding data in some kind of structured form (XML for example) in fields like the comparison data field of the product which can be used to store these domain-specific custom values.