Oh man – e-commerce. The scourge of many developer’s existence. Where do you start? Where does it end?

E-commerce is a massive topic. So many options and use case scenarios make settling on a final platform for building your shop overwhelming. You wind up wasting days installing and testing existing plugins to see if it will work for your specific use case many times to find out that there is one important feature missing. Other times you settle on a solution only to find that there is a feature you didn’t even think about that is necessary for your shop that doesn’t exist in the option you chose – after days (hopefully not weeks) of developing.

In this talk I will go over the currently existing plugins and their features and talk about how each use case affects your store’s requirements and ultimately your choices. We will walk through the types of questions to ask your clients (or yourself if you are a store owner) to get the best possible picture of the store before you even start, and how to filter through the useless to find the best solution for you.