django-oscar VS Mezzanine

Using the open source e-commerce framework Django-Oscar as an example.

Django-Oscar, the open-source ecommerce framework, sparked my interest as a Python/Django developer and a small business supporter because it allows developers to host their own online shops. The Django-Oscar framework “manages a 12 million item catalog supported by 100+ suppliers for a single project,” and provides the opportunity to customize the core functionality to support creative implementations. The ability to customize an implementation of an ecommerce framework is unique, as opposed to out-of-the-box ecommerce solutions like Shopify. Django-Oscar also has an extensive test suite and detailed documentation.

I never used it myself, I'd check the docs : https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar

Oscar

Check out Oscar. It's highly customizable.

If you are looking for usage of class based views and templating then Oscar is a good shout.

https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/pull/358 https://github.com/b12io/orchestra/pull/830 https://github.com/batiste/django-page-cms/pull/210 https://github.com/carpentries/amy/pull/2130 https://github.com/celery/django-celery/pull/612 https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/7241 https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/pull/3867 https://github.com/esrg-knights/Squire/pull/253https://github.com/Frojd/django-react-templatetags/pull/64 https://github.com/groveco/django-sql-explorer/pull/474 https://github.com/jazzband/django-silk/pull/550 https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/16073 https://github.com/ministryofjustice/cla_backend/pull/773 https://github.com/nitely/Spirit/pull/306 https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/pull/1987 https://github.com/rapidpro/rapidpro/pull/1610 https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/22396 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/61647 https://github.com/Swiss-Polar-Institute/project-application/pull/483 https://github.com/UEWBot/dipvis/pull/216

Oscar just works man: http://oscarcommerce.com/

Is there anything specific that's not clear from reading its website ("Why choose Oscar?", "Problems Oscar is already solving") or looking at the documentation ("Features", "Example requirements that Oscar projects already handle")?

I want to dip my toes into eCommerce with Wagtail. I came across the django-oscar-wagtail which brings django-oscar into Wagtail with supposedly seamless compatibility. From what I can see, django-oscar-wagtail is very outdated, the last update to that repository was 3 years ago and there are quite a lot of submitted issues regarding incompatibilities with the newer versions of Wagtail and Django.

I've recently started playing around with Mezzanine, a django-based CMS. I recently just managed to configure Fabric to get it uploading to my host, webfaction.com, as its a bit more involved automatically creating the website on the shared hosting, and I wanted to automate that process.

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There is also Mezzanine / Cartridge which is kinda like WordPress / WooCommerce in the PHP world, it’s primarily for a website that may have a shop added to it. Be aware that this is also somewhat legacy, last time I checked it was kinda in maintenance mode and the variant system for products was super limited.

Mezzanine / Cartridge is similar to WooCommerce in the WordPress world, if you are wanting to add a shop to an existing site then this is a decent option. The problem with it is that the main dev on it went off to work for Google so it’s more or less in maintenance mode and the product variant system is very basic.

mezzanine is probably a simpler one. it recently just got revived and their 5.0 release is now in rc1 state. There's also django-fiber which seems to be quite simple (not much code, one app to add only)