Suitability of Broadleaf to our requirements

[broadleafer1]

Hi,

We are considering using Broadleaf for our upcoming project.

We require a sophisticated (i.e with complex nested product categories, multiple prices, promotions, discount vouchers, images e.t.c) product management system. In addition we also require custom after sale receipt documents to be issued to the customer, potentially different for every product.

All of the above needs to be maintainable via an admin GUI interface with access control, version control e.t.c.

We are selling electronic products, so after the shopping cart is submitted, the system needs to talk to our back end services to generate and supply the product, providing any custom links / access codes to the custom after sales receipt document.

We don't require a web based front end but require a restful API interface.

Is Broadleaf able to provide this functionality out of the box? Would much custom development be required?

Thanks,
Andrew

[RapidTransit]

I'd put Broadleaf in the IBM/Oracle category instead of trying to do everything and the kitchen sink. It provides a solid foundation to integrate in to your business. I've demoed at least 15 hosted cart solutions and about 10 PHP everyone of them hits a technical brick wall and requires extensive modification where writing from scratch would be less expensive.

The Admin backend has CRUD scaffolding via annotations. There is a Rest API and if you don't see it, the Java's WS API is very fast to get to production.