My Django-Oscar experience

ahavnoo.com - Multi-vendor shop where a percentage of each sale is donated to a do-good project.
Developed by LoopIndex

Oscar benefits for Ahavnoo

• Multi-vendor
  although not officially supported, very easy to implement using the fullfilment partners feature
• Management of donation projects
  It's very easy to customize the dashbaord
• Customized checkout process
  added support for donation and project selection during the checkout process
• Custom payment using Tranzilla
  There is no Tranzilla payment plugin

What is Django-Oscar?

• Django E-Commerce framework
• Open Source, active, commercial support and endorsment
• Django 1.8, Python 2 and 3 supported
• Frontend (optional): Bootstrap 3, Less, Jquery
• Extremely customizable

Partial list of features

• Product Catalogue
  including: variants, categories, product attributes, product types, recommendations, reviews
• Customer Management
  including: customer address and order management, communication events, email templates
• Dashboard
  Easy to use and customize, including support for custom permissions
• Offers, discounts, vouchers
  Managed via dashboard - can specify offer availability, conditions and benefits
• Order Management
  Support for complicated workflows, including per-line statuses and events
• Fulfilment Partners / Suppliers
• Payment plugins
• Promotions
  managed via dashboard - can edit content-blocks per page
• Search Simple or with Solr

Useful features for non e-commerce projects

• Dashboard
  Easy to extend and modify
• CMS features
  Edit pages and add content-blocks from the dashboard
• User customizable email templates
  Define email templates and edit them from the dashboard
• Reviews and rating (could be used for comments)
  Reject / Approve from the dsahboard
• Reporting
  User can generate custom reports for a given time-range
• Category tree
  Editable from the dashboard

What it's not

• Out of the box shop solution
  Every installation will require some Django coding
• Dashboard could be hard to use for some actions
  UX could be improved, but it's easy to learn or customize
• No catalogue bulk create/update
  There is some preliminary support from command line
• There aren't a lot of plugins
  Integration with 3rd party services will probably require some coding