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Ubercart vs E-Commerce Features

Submitted by specmav on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 22:16
specmav
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Since the release of 1.0 and eC moving towards version 4, I am curious to know what features eC has over Ubercart and vice versa.

From what I have seen is Ubercart's community and progress is moving faster than that of eC and I am having a hard time deciding what module will offer the most features and versatility.

My business will have a lot of products and services (i.e web-based and offline) such as:

1. regular products (clothing, mugs, etc..)
2. Online and offline events (printable tickets for offline and role purchase for online or Userpoint credits)
3. web-based premium content (role purchase)

I know 1 and 3 can be done with UC but number 2 is a large portion of my business. I would like to create a small scale ticketmaster like (mainly for my business events) site where users purchase tickets for an event then load all purchased barcodes into a scanner, then scan tickets at the event.

Even if there is no module available presently, does the UC API allow this type of features to be coded?

Also is it Ubercarts intention to superside eC's feature list?

Thanks!
permalink #1 Mon, 06/30/2008 - 03:17
armyofda12mnkeys
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why not just sell the tickets as products and have stock for them. like 200 tickets for a 'section front' product, 300 tickets for section middle, 400 for section back. or just do general admission tickets.
if going to do assigned seating, just use cheap service like brownpapertickets.com, cant get much cheaper.

permalink #2 Tue, 07/08/2008 - 20:50
specmav
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Thanks for the suggestions!

permalink #3 Tue, 07/08/2008 - 21:07
jimi089
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armyofda12mnkeys wrote:
why not just sell the tickets as products and have stock for them. like 200 tickets for a 'section front' product, 300 tickets for section middle, 400 for section back. or just do general admission tickets.
if going to do assigned seating, just use cheap service like brownpapertickets.com, cant get much cheaper.

That would be my tactic as well, unless of course you need specific seat's purchased. If it's more general admission like this, inventory/stock would be fine.