I'm in the process of developing my first real Satchmo store, and I'm hoping that some of you who've gotten to production can comment on how the store owners deal with day-to-day administration.
My big question is: how much custom admin work have you had to do? Does the Django admin work for store staff, or do you find you've had to write custom product and order management tools? Product variations, in particular, took me a little while to figure out. Bruce's screencast helped, but I can't help thinking that non- technical store owners are going to have a hard time with this. I started thinking of ways to further improve the admin, but now I'm wondering if other developers are skipping right past this stage and just updating inventory from spreadsheets or ERP systems? Order management is my other big question mark. My client wants to accept orders for out-of-stock items, so we have to authorize and capture separately. Has anyone unchecked "Capture Payment" and provided tools for the store owner to capture or cancel later? It looks like it would just take some modifications to the payment processors, some new order status values, and making sure cancelled orders' quantities are returned to stock. There's nothing too daunting about any of that, but it surprises me that it's not already in. Is this unusual among the live Satchmo stores? I wouldn't have thought so, but either my assumptions about how they're actually run are naive (likely the case), or the owners are doing a lot of manual work in multiple systems, or they've got custom tools that haven't made it back to the project. If I'm not misreading the situation (or TFM or the source), I'm happy to implement what we'll need and submit patches, but I thought I'd ask before I went off solving problems experienced store owners aren't having. :^) Thanks, John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
