We have about 300K SKUs with some products having 1,000 different options to select from.
What is a good platform that can handle this and be PCI compliant?
Something feature rich and fast. Open Source would be great!
We are currently on the Magento Enterprise platform for some of our shops, but the cost for each server is ridiculous. 70K/year!!! They don't do anything really for it. They just bill us. Support is below avg, and platform could be better. Upgrading to newest version costs a lot of money to get a developer to come in, and extensions are usually $200 more compared to community edition.
I am just wondering what else is there?
@Joshua, I'm currently looking at developing my own ecommerce platform as part of something much bigger. It would be nice to have a chat sometime to see what your requirements are and what typical requirements are for ecommerce platforms. Seeing as you've already mentioned 300k products with 1000s of options each, that would be a good base for me start from. If I can cover all your requirements, then I would probably cover most requirements.
Magento from what I've seen is very complex to use, very complex to develop on and their database diagram printed in the smallest fonts I can read on the biggest paper I can have it printed on spans an area bigger than my whiteboard.
Let's have a chat sometime ...
Preetish Panda
Product, Marketing & Technology
You don't have a lot to choose at the intersection of open source and PCI compliant eCommerce platform. One option that I know is Zen Cart. The out of the box front end and back end might not be intuitive (read ugly), but the platform is highly customizable. So your dev team would have to put in some effort here. Do note that you'll get hundreds of free plugins and support from the forum (also there is a wiki).
For PCI compliance, you would have to take care of the the hosting environment (stuffs like deactivated weak cipher and updated OpenSSL), payment provider apart from the platform itself.
Good luck!