On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:21 AM, salmobytes wrote:

>
> Perhaps the real comparison is to OFBiz.
> Ofbiz is a java servlet.
>
> More important, OFBiz has an integrated customer management database.
> Every transaction gets logged as a relationship between inventory,
> customer and transaction.
>
> So you not only get to sell stuff online, you can track your sales,
> best customers, markups, expenses, create
> mailing lists, generate advertising, sale definitions, etc.
>
> Seems to me you need a shopping cart plus bar code reading plus
> customer database.
> Or you don't really have a system.

I think that's a gross generalization.  A large percentage of people  
don't even sell products with bar codes.

>
> Is there a 3rd party customer management database that can be plugged
> into and integrated
> with Satchmo?  I've talked to high-volume retailers who have told me
> about
> commercial products that do what OFBiz does (was it Retail-Pro?), that
> cost a ton of money up front,
> plus they require a fat monthly licensing fee: 300-600 bucks a month,
> just to use it.
>
> A soup-to-nuts system (like OFBiz and/or those proprietary systems)
> would be
> a major development.

Being a major development doesn't mean it's a good one.  I like  
Satchmo for what it does and the fact that it's configurable.  My non- 
technical users love it for the Django Admin system that makes product  
management & order management a snap.  It Just Works.

- Griffin

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