In this chapter, you learned how to set up basic e-commerce functionality with CMS Made Simple. Even if CMS Made Simple does not pretend to offer fully sophisticated e-commerce features, it offers the most wanted features with delivered modules.
Be sure that you do not use CMS Made Simple for pure e-commerce websites. It is better to use a dedicated e-commerce solution for an online shop rather than CMS Made Simple. However, if your website has a mix of features such as a blog, a shop, a forum, and so on, then you can use third-party modules to implement these features.
Specifically, we covered:
The Products module that allows you to create and edit products for the online shop. This module is a basis for the e-commerce suite.
The Cart module that adds simple cart functionality to the Products module. It saves its data in the browser session and connects the module Product with the module Orders.
The Orders module that starts the checkout process for the items added to the cart. This...