TYPO3 E-Commerce plugins

TYPO3 e-Commerce plugins provide a payment facility for your online shop. It is possible to use quite a few extensions for TYPO3 at the moment. You need to choose the extension that is suitable for your online shop: one that suits the shop's requirements and extension options.

There are two extensions from TYPO3 TER (TYPO3 Extension Repository) that are popular and typical:

We can say that the Webformat Shop System by Mauro Lorenzutti is probably more teachable and easier to set up. But Shop System by Franz Holzinger has more functions. If you can financially back the development of the Shop System, you can get access to the newer versions of this extension that support new functions. The Shop System extension that we used from TER, at the time of writing this book, does not support multilingual templates. If you need to use an extension for multilingual content in your websites and you have multiple languages, you can translate templates and add the translated template in the TypoScript configuration using the condition [global]. For example, you can add this line in the code:

plugin.tt_products.templateFile = fileadmin/templates/specialcards/template.html

Add this line into the template:

config.linkVars = L
...
config.sys_language_uid = 0
plugin.tt_products.templateFile = fileadmin/templates/berriesshop/shop_english.html
...

And specify the template for an alternative language:

[globalVar = GP:L = 1]
...
config.sys_language_uid = 1
plugin.tt_products.templateFile = fileadmin/templates/berriesshop/shop_german.html
...
[global]

You should remember that the path (target) for the template location is the same as the main template location.

There are several twists and turns for every extension. It is useful to read manuals before you choose and set up an e-Commerce extension.