MyShop

• A fully-featured online shop built with Django that implements essential e-commerce functionalities.
• Customers can browse products, add them to carts, apply discounts, checkout securely, and receive invoices.
• A recommendation engine suggests relevant products, and internationalization enables multi-language support

Technical Features

Product Management:

• Create and manage a comprehensive product catalog with rich details.

Shopping Cart:

• Utilize Django sessions for a seamless shopping cart experience.
• Implement a custom context processor for convenient cart access across views.

Order Management:

• Allow customers to finalize purchases and track order history.
• Asynchronous Tasks with Celery and RabbitMQ:
• Configure Celery for background tasks like sending notifications.
• Leverage RabbitMQ as a message broker for efficient task management.

Customer Notifications:

• Send automated email or SMS notifications to customers about orders, discounts, etc. (Integration with a notification service would be needed)

Monitoring with Flower:

• Monitor Celery task execution and performance using Flower's web interface.

Secure Payments with Stripe:

• Integrate the Stripe payment gateway for secure credit card processing.
• Handle payment notifications for seamless transaction confirmation.

Order Reporting:

• Export orders to CSV files for easy data analysis and management.

Administration Panel:

• Create custom views for a user-friendly admin interface.

Dynamic PDF Invoices:

• Generate PDF invoices with essential order details.

Coupon System:

• Create and manage coupons for discounts.
• Apply coupons to shopping carts and orders for flexible promotions.
• Support coupon creation for Stripe Checkout (if needed)

Product Recommendations:

• Build a product recommendation engine with Redis to enhance customer engagement.

Installation

1. Prerequisites

   • Python (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
   • RabbitMQ (https://www.rabbitmq.com/)
   • Celery (https://docs.celeryq.dev/)
   • Flower (https://flower.readthedocs.io/)
   • Stripe account (https://stripe.com/) (for payment processing)

2. Clone Repository:

   • git clone https://github.com/omarraafat14/myshop.git

3. Set Up Environment:

   cd myshop
   source env/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   python manage.py migrate
   

• Note: Create a .env file to store sensitive information like Stripe API keys and database credentials (refer to Django documentation for details).

4. Run RabbitMQ:

   • (Optional for asynchronous tasks with Celery)

   docker pull rabbitmq
   docker run -it --rm --name rabbitmq -p 5672:5672 -p 15672:15672 rabbitmq:management
   

5. Start Celery Worker:

   • celery -A <project-name> worker -l info

6. Monitor Celery (optional):

   • celery -A myshop flower
   • This opens Flower's web interface (usually at http://localhost:5555) for monitoring Celery tasks.

7. Run Redis for product recommendation:

   • docker run -it --rm --name redis -p 6379:6379 redis

Usage

1. Start the Django development server:

   • python manage.py runserver

2. Explore the app's functionalities using the admin panel and frontend.