Summary:

an ecommerce plugin for elgg. It adds ecommerce, online shopping, payments, user stores etc to your elgg site. Combatible with all elgg versions.

Full description:

Social Commerce is  buying and selling online with friends. Using the Social commerce plugin, we can create ecommerce applications with social aspects in minutes. It lets users to buy and sell products and services online. We can get recommendations on the products and services that users provide. This plugin helps you to integrate payment options like paypal, 2checkout into your elgg system.

Elgg Social Commerce plugin is a feature rich Elgg Plugin that gives you the power to convert your elgg applications into a social store like Shopit. It enables people to create hosted shopping cart with Elgg social networking platform. Shoppers add products to their cart and proceed through a checkout process as if they were using a popular ecommerce cart. This all takes place on a small corner of the merchant's personal or business profile page in the elgg social networking site. It helps users to have everything he has in his social page, plus allows him to create an online store.

Elgg social commerce plugin1.7.8 supports elgg1.7.8. We have modified the plugins and added many new features into this release.

• Elgg1.7(1.7.1 - 1.7.8) combatible
• Continues updations
• HTTPS for checkout
• Every user can buy and sell products
• Each user can create his own store
• Administrator can opt to disable user stores
• Admin can define user types and permissions(needs Cubet Membership plugin)
• Administrator can define the commission
• Many elgg widgets like popular products, my purchased items, latest products etc
• Product thumbnails and pop ups
• Physical & digital products
• Can add more product types
• Social bookmarking with sharethis
• Coupon codes and coupon management
• Related products
• Out of stock emails
• Different payment options like paypal, Cash On Delivery etc
• Different payment options
• Different Tax options
• Different withdrawal options
• Manage fund releases
• Manage cart to river integration
• Create orders manually
• Manage wishlist
• Track Order history
• Manage Transactions etc.

Web masters can define the payment options, shipping options etc. The plugin is designed in a modular structure, hence elgg developers can add new shipping and payment modules easily.

The Social Commerce Elgg plugin has released with a bunch of built in widgets, like "My Products", "My Purchases", "Top Rated Products", "Best Sellers" etc, that can be placed in the profile pages.

The Social Commerce plugin is a great step to make your elgg applications as a online Market. There are many different ways to implement elgg and Social Media, but social commerce plugin based apps provide a way to instantly monetize them. This shopping cart solution provide a solution for merchants to manage inventory centrally while still tapping into social commerce. All the above listed features are not available in this release. You can get the feature rich version from http://socialcommerce.in.