After setting up a website for my mother, enabling her to accept orders for her small business I began to quite like Ubercart for its simplicity. One of the big things I like is the attributes system, where a product can have user-definable variations that can affect the price. There are limitations of course, but being free is a big bonus.
The only element of Ubercart that isn’t free is the time it will take to discover its limitations. With all its simplicity comes quite a lot of rigid inflexibility and today I have hit a point that goes to the very core of Ubercart: it lacks support for anything but discreet units for products (no decimals), lacks support for ordering by a specific unit of measure (UOM) and thus doesn’t have any kind of UOM conversion available.
I was in the planning stages of transitioning our company website to using Ubercart but now that I’ve discovered this particular weak point, using Ubercart in this case will be impossible. What is it about software that individual packages will include a single great feature but lack everything else I need? If only it were possible to take all those great features and make one super application… Why do developers tortue me so?
