JOOMLA vs DRUPAL Merchant Community / Ecommerce Site Topic is solved

[RIO.D.MAX]

I’m doing research as to what CMS/Shopping Cart combination will be best for a non-for-profit site for low income artists, sculptors, craft merchants to sell their home made goods through our site.

I am exploring the Joomla + Community Builder + Virtua Mart or OScommerce solution or should I be looking at Drupal instead!  Please advise. I appreciate all your advice, suggestions as to what would be the most simple and easy route to implement a solution that can provide the following features.

• Merchant members - (they can list and sell their products)
  Members Register and create an account
  They  create profile or mini-site describing their products (they can style it like on myspace)
  They Enter their products and options and prices into Shopping Cart System
  They can come back and run sales reports and view activity history
  They can also update their mini-site and or also their products, prices in the shopping cart
  Merchant can choose to receive order via email, fax,  IM, mobile text message.

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• Customer Members - (they browse and purchase products)
  Customers register and create an account
  They can search by product, price, merchant, location etc and add them to favorites…
  They can browse thru merchant mini sites and profiles and add them to their favorites
  They can make purchases and track them and they can view their order history
  They can create and read reviews for products
  They can send feedback to a merchant and or rate a merchant
  They can earn points for each order and apply point to next order from any merchant on site.
  

Thanks Again
Rio D Max
Chicago USA

[manuman]

Hate top say it but I would suggest OSC. The multiple merchants bit is easier to achieve with OSC (or ZenCart).

Cheers
Shayne