peer-to-peer commerce

[manojvp]

Any one using Zen Cart for peer-to-peer commerce? Any suggestions on how to customize Zen Cart for peer-to-peer?

Thanks

[kuroi]

Zen Cart isn't designed for this. It can provide a good platform from which it can be developed (e.g. www.officetrader.net), but the amount of work involved is huge.

[manojvp]

Thank you Kuroi for the quick response. Do you know of any other tool that will make it easier?

[kuroi]

I'm afraid not, otherwise I might have advised the client for whom I did Office Trader to use an alternative. My impression is that peer-to-peer platforms are usually built from scratch. We used Zen Cart to get a head start, but there was still a lot to do.

[manojvp]

Thanks again Kuroi,
can I ask you how much work you had to do to customize for peer-to-peer? like 1 person month? was it a extreamly complicated?


I just came across a tool called phpShop, I am looking into that as well. have you seen that one?

Thank you so much.

[kuroi]

It's difficult to say as there were lots of other very specific customisations in there too. But I'd say somewhere in the range 1-2 person months.