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Social commerce sample

Have you ever thought of generating more revenues with your social networking site?
Does anyone thought of creating a platform for designers, architects, painters, etc to sell their work online? We now have an easy way to create a social ecommerce site.
What do you mean by a social ecommerce site? social ecommerce or social commerce is a term used to refer to social networking applications which adds ecommerce elements into this. Some of the examples of popular social commerce applications are http://shoppify.com, http://thisnext.com etc.

Developing a custom application with the social commerce features is a big task, which requires a lot of time and money. So, we have an easy work around. We can create quality social commerce sites with the best open source social networking platform, ELGG. We can create a variety of social applications with the elgg platform. We extend the features of elgg by developing plugins and themes for elgg. Elgg social commerce plugin is a good plugin that enhance your social networking application with ecommerce features. The elgg social commerce plugin allows members of the site to buy and sell products-both downloadable and physical.

The elgg social commerce plugin has a lot of cool features like,

• Physical and digital products
• create and manage orders by admin of the site
• Users can buy and sell products
• Buyers can rate products
• Different payment options
• Provision to set a site commission by administrator
• Create and publish promotional coupon codes
• Provision to add more shipping and payment methods
• we integrated with elgg- built as an elgg plugin
• Packed with supporting widgets
• Multi language support
• Can support custom defined fields for products

You can buy this plugin at http://elggmarket.com as well.

Elgg is the best open source platform for creating social applications. Elgg can be used to develop social aware applications like e-Learning systems, social and family networks, intranet systems, closed communities etc. But, elgg was lacking one of the great features of this decade, the ecommerce factor.

The first few years of elgg lived with out the e-commerce or lets say social commerce features until when an Indian Company called Cubet Technologies came out with a new & feature rich elgg plugin called “Elgg Social Commerce Plugin“. This plugin is very feature rich and configurable, but its not FREE.  As per their website, it costs $249, but it looks worth.

For thos who look for a cheap solution, they have released a FREE version at the elgg’s plugin list at http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/webcubes/read/232027/elgg-social-commerce-plugin

The people beghind this cool plugin have developed many other elgg plugins and are focusing on elgg.