Been brainstorming something similar (re POS)

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Post #102,159

by altmann

5/15/03 7:23:13 PM

Been brainstorming something similar (re POS)

From the customer's POV:
One problem with a web based POS system like that is if you host it somewhere and your DSL goes down, yer hosed re: in-store sales. If you host it in-store, then you may need in-house tech support and a better net connection. If you have more than one store, the first problem crops up again. If you decentralize your DB, you have to worry about synchronization. What if someone buys an item online, then someone in-store picks up that item and buys it before the online order can be fulfilled (without keeping a separate online inventory)? Lots to think about.

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Chris Altmann

Post #102,164

by orion

5/15/03 9:12:27 PM

Obviously there will need to be two different inventories

and the need to shuffle items between them. An item will have a stock type of In-Store and Warehouse or Webstore or whatever. When one stock is low, you can shuffle items from one type to the other.

I even had an idea of using dynamic web forms for the web store, so the captions and text is stored in a table indexed by language so a Spanish speaker will see the forms in Spanish, etc. If no language preference, default to English. All captions will be loaded from variables that are populated in the code as English, and if the user has a language set, it is loaded from the table.

"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard

Building a web store - (orion) - (7) - May 6, 2003, 07:21:10 PM EDT

Re: Building a web store - (admin) - (6) - May 6, 2003, 07:39:58 PM EDT

Thanks - (orion) - (1) - May 6, 2003, 07:50:05 PM EDT

You can distribute PHP with your product AFAIK -NT - (altmann) - May 7, 2003, 04:18:44 AM EDT

Not to mention self-serve services like Yahoo Stores -NT - (tablizer) - May 6, 2003, 10:10:56 PM EDT

The challenge so far - (orion) - (2) - May 15, 2003, 02:48:05 PM EDT

Been brainstorming something similar (re POS) - (altmann) - (1) - May 15, 2003, 07:23:13 PM EDT

Obviously there will need to be two different inventories - (orion) - May 15, 2003, 09:12:27 PM EDT

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