Hi
I am working on a new business project. The budget is virtually
non-existent at this time, so I am appealing to the open source domain.
I am designing some software for the business problem itself but I also
need software for the administrative side of things. I am looking at
Ofbiz because it's in java and java has good scaling and integration
properties. I need something like Ofbiz mainly for its accounting
component at the moment.
For this business, the basic initial business process would be taking
orders from an already existing website and forwarding them via JSON/XML
to ofbiz for, 1) payment processing, 2) general ledger book keeping.
I also would like to add my own payment gateway to ofbiz. I looked at
the code for some existing gateways services but still cannot see how
they integrate with the rest of the accounting components. For example :
1) if a payment is made on the website through Ofbiz, how does the GL
eventually get updated?
2) how do set up the config properties for a new gateway? direct in the db?
I note Ofbiz appears to be very well designed and has loads of
functionality but it is very difficult for me to understand how it all
fits together from what documentation is available. In this regard,
perhaps I can offer some assistance here in return for yours.
Paul
