We are building ecommerce into Jobster and I am doing due diligence on whether we should buy some functionality rather than build it in-house.

This process is one of information overload. How many hundreds of “ecommerce solutions” are there, especially hosted shopping carts?

One promising product is Elastic Path. They have a j2ee product with provided source code that we can download, integrate into the rest of Jobster, and host ourselves.

Has anyone had experience with Elastic Path or any of its competitors? We are also willing to buy pieces of an ecommerce platform:

• storefront with customer self service
• product catalogue: manageable inventory of which products we sell, how much they cost, etc.
• promotions engine: deal with sales, limited time offers