Since there’s currently no complete solution to build a modX powered website with integrated shop, I was wondering which would be the way to go, to achieve this with a third party cart.
The integration in the frontend should be very close, so you can’t distinguish the parts coming from modx with the parts (cart, product listings, product views) and everything should work without heavy js processing. On the other hand it would be totally ok to manage content in the modX backend and products in the shopping carts backend, independent of each other.
There should be a convenient way for i18n and a big range of (international) payment methods, everything should run on own hardware and it would be lovely to use an open source cart. In addition, it would be a big plus if the commerce software would be well suited to sell digital goods.
A pretty long wish list, I know, but I expect a combination of modX with something as powerful as Magento, XtCommerce, Opencart or the likes would be a really nice way to realize a big website with integrated shop.
I’m absolutely willing to spend a lot of time for the integration, I’m only very unsure, if there’s something that can be considered the way to go for a project like this.
There’s a MODX shopping cart addon called SimpleCart: modxsimplecart.com
It is built using standard MODX techniques (templates, TVs, chunks & snippets) and the output is fully customizable. Because of this, it’s well integrated into the back end as well.
Not free nor Open Source though.