By default, LS Retail offers the eCommerce solution on top of the Magento platform. The LS Retail extension for Magento has been developed to offer an integration from Magento to LS Central as a turnkey solution, built on LS Retail's Unified Commerce concept where everything is driven from LS Central. Note: LS Retail's Magento extension always contains all the available features in the LS eCommerce feature-set.
For a list of available features, see Features.
When customers deploy LS eCommerce for Magento they can choose between two versions of Magento: Open Source or the Commerce version. The open source version is Magento's entry level platform bearing no additional license fees, while the Commerce version is Magento's enterprise solution with its additional features, hosting capabilities, and licensing cost.
Demo environment
There are two options to demo LS eCommerce for Magento:
- A cloud hosted instance – allowing LS Retail partners and customers to see and try out the Magento front end using the conpany's standard theme and demo data.
- See http://ls-magento.lsretail.com/ for the LS Retail extension running on the Open Source version of Magento.
- See http://ls-magento.lsretail.com/commerce/ for the LS Retail extension running on the Commerce version of Magento.
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A local Virtual Machine – allowing partners and customers to download and install a local virtual machine which they can then connect to a local instance of LS Central – whether that is a local LS Central install or the standard virtual machine for LS Central. This allows partners to demo the solution using their local data and experience the full spectrum of the integration as LS Central is now part of the demo environment.
This includes modifying items and prices, seeing the data replication in action, seeing transactions flow to LS Central in real time, installing new discount rules and seeing them applied in the basket calculation, and so on.To download and install the Magento virtual machine, refer to Virtual Machine Setup.
Local install
To locally install and configure LS eCommerce for Magento, refer to the Technical Reference section of the help.
Source code
The source code for the LS Retail extension is open source towards our partners, facilitating that partners can do all the needed customizations required by their customers. Note: It is very common to employ independent Magento software houses to carry out the needed Magento development, should our partners not possess this skill set. Also note that LS Retail can provide this assistance through the company's Consulting Services.
To download the source code of the LS Retail Magento extension, visit https://github.com/lsretailomni/lsmag-two