E-Commerce solution
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- gammo
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First of all, I'm a total ignoramus on this subject matter (I’m more of a designer then programmer) and thus I apologise for the unstructured post you are about to read;
I want to integrate a robust, scalable E-Commerce solution into a Joomla powered site. (That has not been built yet)
My clients likes and wants a site like this in presentation and function;
www.myer.com.au/
Am I right in saying that virtually ANY of the newer Rockettheme Theme's can be tweaked to look like that?
I'm not too concerned with the theme itself, more so, what is the best solution for my clients needs;
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-Mid-Level Business
-200 to 300 products (Will grow, but slowly)
All products have a series of photos and an item description.
-Spare parts for those products (May be a bigger list then the product list itself)
Ultimately I wanted something that pulls info from the clients local Database.
Now here's the thing, none of this has been built yet. This particular client has been doing everything like it was 1440.
They have NO Database to speak off, nor do they store any of their clients info on any sort of contact management software or the like. They only have MYOB. That and Windows Live Mail, which has all their clients and suppliers listed.
So I need to revolutionise their office and while I’m at it, move their catalogue online and put it to work.
I’m still undecided on what Database to use for them Access, FireBlade, Filemaker, etc... (I'm open to suggestions on a better choice) They will only have thousands of records not millions. So I don't want to get too complicated with it, even thou the Database will control everything;
Customer information, sales and service, item information, order processing, warehousing, shipment, etc…
But what E-commerce solution is out there, that pulls info from a local database and is 100% compatible with Joomla, it will need to handle;
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-Inventory (Item Master, Stock Location/Warehouse, Quantity)
-Sales (Customer Master, Sales Order Processing, Pricing)
I’m not sure about these functions, these would be done on the local db, I think…
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-Accounting (G/L, AP, AR and Reporting modules)
-Purchasing (Vendor Master, Purchase Order Pricing, Material Control)
I’m a little lost here, I need some help in making sense of this.
Have any of you had similar challenges, what is the best solution you found?
I looked at;
virtuemart.net/
It looks quite capable but I really wanted to hear from people that have actually implemented it. Also it does not have to "free" my client is willing to spend money on a dedicated solution if any.
Any help and advice will be greatly appreciated, thank you. - MySQl Version: 5.0.51a
Joomba 2.5 + phpBB 3.0.10
PHP Version: 5.2.17
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- Sam Mahoney
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Any particular reason you need to use Joomla, seeing as you mentioned they don't have a site currently? I'd also second Magento, as it'll do pretty much everything you mentioned, although won't be using a "local" database, as it'll run it's own db on the server. The Halcyon theme is pretty similar to that which you linked -
demo.rockettheme.com/magento/magento_1601/halcyon_style_2/
If you wanted to access things locally you could check something like this www.mag-manager.com/ - STEP 1 IN MAGENTO DEVELOPMENT - DISABLE YOUR CACHE OR YOU WON'T SEE ANY CHANGES.
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