As you might know, we started working on SilverCart 1.3 in January. Some weeks ago, we were done with the features and started with testing and quality assurance. We also opened a thread in the forum to gather invaluable information from community members for the beta version.

With the announcement of SilverStripe 3 and the first preview versions, we found ourselves trapped in a deadlock. We knew that we had to modify the administration area to enable new features, but have been hesitating to do so and trying to stall for time. Since the architecture of the admin area in SilverStripe 3 is subject to heavy modification, we were afraid we will have to do it all over again once SilverStripe 3 is out.

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.