Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
Dear Community,
We have a specification and database model in place for our new webshop
but we can't find the resources needed to implement this in the near
future.
We are looking for something as follows:
* Accept numerous online and offline payment processing options
* Add/Edit/Remove products, distributors, retailers, and customers
* Support of inventory and RMA
* Support for spare part ordering, stocking and shipment
* Support multiple carriers / shipping methods
* Automatic generation of invoices and shipping information
* Secure transactions with SSL -- we need to have the highest possible
level of security and privacy
* Clean, maintainable code which will be audited before being put into
full production.
Preferable this webshop should not be written in PHP. Either Perl,
Python or Ruby would be fine by us.
Hi Sean,
This may be a stupid comment (and feel free to ignore it if it is), but
why build your own?
Having worked on ecom sites in the past and seen how convoluted
individual requirements can make a site, I've come to the conclusion
that there are significant advantages in doing just what everybody else
does.
a brief googling * turned up 'substruct' - open source, based on ruby
on rails - meets a subset of your requirements, but may be extensible
enough that you don't have to reinvent the entire wheel, only the shiny
new spin-rims.
* Based on about a minute and a half of investigation - there are
probably more appropriate projects out there, this is just an example.
And your requirements may really be complex enough that the pre-built
OSS stack isn't viable. In that case, I would take a closer look at the
requirements and see if you can drop any for release 1.
Build when all else fails (unless it is your core competency, like
say.... a linux phone distribution :P )
my $0.02
josh
If anyone is interested in developing this webshop, (for pay of course)
please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following information:
1) A summary of your qualifications
2) How much time you could spend on this project
We will select from these emails a few especially qualified applicants
and ask them to sign our NDA and then provide them with the complete
specification and database model. There are too many confidential
business details to just post this all publicly now.
Thanks!
Sean
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