The idea is to be a great alternative to what is available in e-commerce platforms, correct?

Well I think you are brave to put the best wheels in a car alone. That's really good.

And one of the best ideas that you can copy is the creation of product types.

see the...

One of the most difficult things for us to set up is quantity breaks for printed materials. Because of the way they are manufactured, printed materials are usually sold in groups. For example 500 or 1000 or 2500 business cards. And as quantity goes up the price per item is greatly reduced.

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Registration and Checkout forces customer to fill a lot of fields that may not be required/used in some situations. It would be good to have the ability to indicate which fields are not required or hidden.

One reason why so many users have chosen MijoShop (and derivates) is the CMS functionality. To come away from such solutions it would be fine to have following:

1. text categories (unlimted)
2. text archive
3. frontend module
4. button to add products / categories int...

While not many shops may need that, but some have several employes speaking different languages.

Would be good to have a 'language switcher' in the backend to select the needed language instead of logout and login again.

Additionally a new setting at each user (similiar Joomla has) wh...

I hope there will be a simple setting for disabling the functions Affilates, Compare, Reward Points and Whislist - same way as it's already is for Reviews. While they are useful for some, some or all of them are probably annoying for the most...

Handling (publish, copy, delete) items in batch mode, same as with Joomla and WordPress.