On thursday Ramon and I had a SilverCart presentation at the London SilverStripe user group. The visitors worked a lot with Magento and I was asked at least by three different people why SilverCart doesn't cost anything.  At first I was a little disturbed but then I realised that thisquestion is very natural in our economic system. If someone is investing time and effort in a product he wants to get compensated one day. The longer he waits the more money he expects. One example is Blizzard. They are developing "Diablo 3" for 4 years now I think and they don't even have a release date. They invest a lot of money and expect a high profit at the end. Well, I don't like computer gaming any more (I only "play" SilverStripe) and I have a whole other idea about software. I believe that open source is the future and I believe that our economic system is about to change.

Some weeks ago, Rich Johnson from GPMD invited us to the UK SilverStripe CMS User Group in London to present our SilverStripe E-Commerce module SilverCart. Roland and me will fly over to London* to do the presention and to have some fun work and do some research.

I just published a new docu page for the userbase: Shipping Fee Management. It should help you to add your own shipping fees to you installation. With our implementation of shipping fees we wanted to reflect the carriers shipping fee matrix consistent of zones, countries, shipping methods and shipping fees.

Is SilverCart scalable? How does it work with hundreds of product categories and thousands of products? It works very well! Yesterday our biggest ecommerce project went live with 300.000+ products and many categories. It is a pharmaceutical online store called teleapotheke.de. Customers may pay with credit cart, debit or prepayment. They can register or shop anonymously.

Googlesitemaps is a great module for SilverStripe. It is so important to SilverStripe's team that they deliver it with the standard download package. The sitemap is an important cornerstone in SEO, and SEO is vital for an ecommerce website.