Deciding between Umbraco and Orchard ASP.NET CMS [duplicate]

Question

Now that both system's are built on ASP.NET MVC, does anyone have any experience dealing with both? Looking to set up a small business site for a friend, that will eventually have an online store. I've read a lot of posts, but nothing recent ( since Umbraco 5 was released ). If you've had experience, just looking for pros and cons. Anything related to commerce functionality would be helpful as well. Thank you.

Answer 1

Orchard has been built from ground-up around ASP.NET MVC 3. I personally prefer that one, as it's well designed, very active and backed by Microsoft. And, of course, totally free.

If you are looking for e-commerce solution - there is a new, very promising module called WebShop, along with a full tutorial.

Answer 2

Orchard is very dynamic and u can build your site out of parts, a e-commerce module would be able to provide parts that can be rendered as partial views. Another custom module could inject other views in there. It's just very extensible and i like it. U can allow some access to the admin panel just for store administrators etc.

I don't know about Umbraco with ASP.NET MVC as base, but i know Orchard is from Outercurve Foundation which i like alot.

As far as i know there is just one real commerce module, but i don't know if it is any good

Orchard gallery - Mageliawebstore

Mageliawebstore directly

Answer 3

Hi Don't know about Orchard but Umbraco V5 is ideal for a small business. The reason that you don't read a lot of post recently is that the Architecture is completely new. Expect a lot of documentation in the coming month. But you can already start with the site you get a lot of info if you are using the create template dialog in the backend which renders some default code for you.

Regarding Ecommerce I know the Package vendors of UWebshop and UCommerce are already building next versions of their products on top of Umbraco V5 so expect a fully integrated Ecommerce solution soon.