Re: [Web-erp-developers] StoreFront/Catalog and webERP

[Meraj R. K. <mrk...@ya...>]

Hi,

Steve/Phill thanks for your comments and help. Sorry
for not replying immediately as I was trying to make
store flow the way I would like it to function. I hope
 looking at store will help convey better than I could
express in words.   

Please read on for my reply which is inline.


--- skaill <sk...@ro...> wrote:

> Phil can correct me if I get anything incorrect
> here.  It kind of depends on
> whether you need customer access for ordering or a
> pretty web storefront for
> advertising, selling, ordering and paying.  
>

We need both :-) if we can get away with it.

>
> webERP,
> to the best of my
> knowledge, is not setup to be a storefront, it is an
> accounting/business/ERP
>

Agreed ! we wish if we could add a storefront to
webERP  which is easy to use and maintain for small
businesses. 

>
> system so the way the customer is going to see the
> products is the same as
> the users in the company see them internally.  
>

Please see www.salaama.com, I would suggest you to
check the Software store and in that store Vector SOHO
3.2 as it has more complete flow of our store as
compare to other products in any store.

If you click at "Your Account" on top or "Login Here"
on the right or if you select any product by clicking
on "Buy This", all point to webERP login. Where you
can check it with the user id "testy" and password
"pakbill" (it is a customer login only account). Here
again you will find what was outside (before logging
in). Here if you select any item by clicking on "Buy
This" it should open the webERP ordering page (where a
user adds product in webERP to order). 

We would like here "Buy This" to add products to the
customer's order. Any help / tip / suggesstions about
the best way to acheive this. 

> 
> What webERP does already give
> you is a common database for storage of products and
> orders.  It has
> mechanisms to create and access orders.   It has
> authentication.  Plus
> creating the web orders directly in webERP means
> they are ready to move
> through all the various accounting without any
> double work and interfacing
> being necessary.
> 

Yes! this is the functionality which attracted us to
go for webERP though our size of operation can never
dream of using any ERP system. Thanks Phill :-)

>
> If a nice storefront is needed then that is a
> separate beast.  You would
> need to either:
> 
> 1) Enhance webERP to present a nice web store front,
> display product and
> organize this customer site in the ways that are
> appealing.

Yes! you are right on dot.

> 
> 2) About the same mission as 1 but you take an
> existing store front and
> combine it with webERP.
>

What about this one. It is simple and template based
design. 

> 
> However, I doubt there is any cost effective
> solution out there that
> provides both full accounting/erp system and fully
> functional storefront so
> whichever system you used you would need to do the
> work explained above
> anyway.  In my opinion you want to go with webERP
> because it's technology
> and design make it easier to combine a storefront
> with it than other
> systems.
> 

Yes.

>
> Hopefully this helps.
> 
> Steve
>

Your comments and guideance were most helpful. Hope
you could spare some time once again. 

Thanking you,

-Meraj Rasool Khattak


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