Satchmo

Satchmo's mission is to use Django to create an open source framework for creating unique and robust online stores. To provide maximum flexibility, Satchmo is licensed under the BSD license.

OpenShop based on Satchmo

Features

Satchmo strives to be extremely flexible.

All display items are driven by templates using the powerful Django templating language
All urls can be custom configured to your desired naming convention
The checkout process can be tailored to your specific needs

Satchmo support many payment modules including:

Authorize.net
Trustcommerce
Google checkout
Cybersource
Paypal
Protx
Purchase orders

Satchmo has flexible shipping options and allows you to create your own. Satchmo includes:

UPS integration
Fedex integration
USPS integration
Flat rate shipping
Multi-tiered shipping

Satchmo’s has robust support for multiple product types including:

Downloadable products
Subscription products
Custom configured products
Product variants
Gift certificates

All products offer you the opportunity to have:

As many images per product as you would like
Automatice thumbnail creation for the images
Unlimited categories and sub categories
Support for multiple pricing and discounting tiers based on volume
Support for tiered/group pricing
Inventory tracking including SKU’s and preventing users from ordering out of stock items
Meta data support for SEO
Featured items
Tax tables
Related products
Most popular products
Arbitrary attributes
Multiple translations per product
Flexible variant creation (shirts with sizes and colors) including price changes for combinations
Allow user to comment and rate products
Comments support akismet spam tagging

The customer model allows you to:

Have multiple ship to and bill to addresses
View order history
Update account profile online
Reset user passwords
Require email verification for account creation
Satchmo supports discount codes which allow you to:
Set amount of percentage discounts
Limit the number of uses
Allow free shipping
Set start and end dates
Limit to certain products

Satchmo includes extensive Internationalization and translation support:

Multiple translations are included:

French
German
Italian
Spanish
Swedish
Bulgarian
Portuguese
Korean
Hebrew
Turkish

Full country specific information

Translation support for all products and categories

Support for date and currency formating based on locale

Satchmo takes security seriously:

Django provides built in support to prevent many common attacks such as:

SQL injection
Automatic HTML escaping to prevent cross-site scripting
Session forging/hijacking

Satchmo encrypts all credit card information

Satchmo does not store ccv data in the database

Fine grained ssl support for as many or as few urls as you need

Django is a proven scalable and robust system. Satchmo takes advantage of this by using:

Django caching
Opportunity to easily split out the tiers of the application (database, web, etc)
A large suite of unit tests

In addition to these items, Satchmo provides:

Generation of PDF invoices, packing slips and shipping labels
Full store product searching
Google analytic integration
Google adwords support
Google base feeds
Newsletter support via mailman or custom database
Recently viewed items
Wishlists

Install

Installing Django with Satchmo on Debian Etch

Installing Dependencies

wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
su -c 'python ez_setup.py'
easy_install pycrypto
or apt-get install python-crypto
easy_install http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/rhel/3/Reportlab-2.1.0001-py2.5.egg
or apt-get install python-reportlab
easy_install django-registration
or svn checkout http://django-registration.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ django-registration-read-only
python setup.py install
easy_install http://tinyforge.org/frs/download.php/1/trml2pdf.tar.gz
or apt-get install python-trml2pdf
easy_install PyYAML
or apt-get install python-yaml

Install Python Imaging Library.

easy_install --find-links=http://download.zope.org/distribution PILwoTk
or apt-get install python-imaging

Optional dependencies

easy_install elementtree
or apt-get install python-celementtree
easy_install docutils
or apt-get install python-docutils
easy_install

Install Satchmo

svn co svn://satchmoproject.com/satchmo/trunk satchmo-trunk
cd satchmo-trunk
sudo python setup.py install
>>> import django
>>> import satchmo_store
>>> satchmo_store.get_version()
u'0.9-pre-SVN-unknown'
django-admin.py startproject mystore
cp satchmo-trunk/satchmo/projects/base/local_settings.py mystore/local_settings.py
vi local_settings.py
SITE_NAME = "My Shop"
CACHE_BACKEND = "memcached://127.0.0.1:11211/" or "file:///var/tmp/django_cache"
CACHE_TIMEOUT = 60x5
SITE_DOMAIN ="huihoo.org"
LOGDIR =  os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
LOGFILE = "satchmo.log"

Customizing the settings

vi mystore/settings.py

cp satchmo/local_settings-customize.py /mystore/local_settings.py

required files

python manage.py satchmo_copy_urls

Database

python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py satchmo_load_l10n
python manage.py satchmo_load_store
python manage.py satchmo_load_us_tax

Run

cd /satchmo-trunk/satchmo/projects/large
python manage.py satchmo_check
Error: No module named sorl
svn checkout http://sorl-thumbnail.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ sorl-thumbnail-read-only
Error: No module named typogrify
svn checkout http://typogrify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ typogrify-read-only
Error: No module named app_plugins
svn checkout http://django-app-plugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ django-app-plugins-read-only

Checking your satchmo configuration.
Using Django version 1.0.2 final
Using Satchmo version 0.9-pre-SVN-unknown
Your configuration has no errors.

View

python manage.py runserver
http://127.0.0.1:8000/shop
http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin
http://127.0.0.1:8000/settings
http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/doc

more detail: http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/svn/new_installation.html

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