I make this as a pure business decision. I can no longer compete effectively with others in my business without having some major changes in SCCP.
I have grown to really love SCCP for a cart system (But I admit I loath SCDP!! ). I found ways of abusing the giant flat-file that SCCP uses to store its data. I worked my way around the quirkiness of creating my own themes. Figured out ways to add in additional pages as I needed and have them added to the menu system.
But I can no longer go without some of what I consider to be a must in any e-commerce cart system:
- Text fields for product customization
- Coupon codes
- Downloads
- Customer groups
- Product reviews
- SEO friendly URLs
- No cryptic names for images used on the site (i.e. "full2_3_45.png") I really dislike this one the most!
- Customer accounts
- MySQL DB and not a flatfile
I will stay tuned for whatever (and whenever) the next iteration of SCCP comes out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDbSyfU_04
Hopefully everything that myself and others in this forum have asked for will happen to the next SCCP.