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bitcoin support for mayor open source webshop systems
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r2k-in-the-vortex
on 27/05/2011, 09:21:19 UTC
here is a list of open source webshops

and here is a list of open source webshops supporting bitcoin(bitcoin modules available but not included in the official release)
    Virtumart
    Zen Cart
    OpenCart
    WP e-commerce

now its obvious that the true value of a currency is what you can buy for it, so to raise bitcoin value we must get more vendors to accept bitcoin
but that can never happen until webshop softwares start supporting bitcoin payments

now most of these software solutions are written in php, two in java and two in python, one of perl and one of asp .NET
so what we need first is a php webshop module to attach to half of these solutions

now i looked around a list of businesses accepting bitcoin and found few vendors use some of these widely used eCommerce softwares,
eg My Healthy Organics uses zencart a php based foss eCommerce solution
the thing is that Zen Cart featurelist does not include bitcoin payments as far as i can tell, so did the vendor write his own support for the feature?

i think we could get lot more vendors supporting bitcoin if we could get a "pay with bitcoin" feature from some of these sites on the list and get the feature included in all the most used foss webshop solutions

so is there any vendor here who has modified their webshop software and could we approach the webshop development teams with that solution?