Your answers look great Chris. Just a few additional comments:
On Jan 14, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Chris Howe wrote:
I'll try to answer as many questions as I can, inline.
--- "Munaretto, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BACK OFFICE
Can email notifications for new accounts and changes in order status
be edited and managed in text and HTML formats? (We would be
manually changing the status of an order, and would want this to
trigger emails). I assume this isn't out of the box but could be the
platform could be customized to do this... correct?
Certainly can be customized. Depending what you mean by manually
changing status, it may exist for the most part OOTB
This actually is available pretty much out of the box. There is a
setting to put orders initially into a pending status and then you can
manually approve them, and just use the order confirmation email that
is triggered on this status change (which is one of many available
stock in OFBiz).
SECURITY
Does it support AVS verification (address verification) and reporting
with orders?
I think I saw that somewhere. This would depend on who your shipping
carrier is as I believe the service uses their api
Yes, there are quite a few options for this including independent
services and those that are part of a shipper's API. Some are included
in OFBiz, and it's pretty easy to integrate to other service when/if
needed.
Has a security audit been performed by an independent company?
unknown
Technically all companies are independent of OFBiz on one hand, and on
the other hand many OFBiz users are not independent because in
contributing to the project they are acting on behalf of the Apache
Software Foundation.
Anyway, quite a few security audits have been done by organizations
using OFBiz, usually by a third party security company that does a
review. Usually OFBiz does pretty well, but keep in mind that most
security issues for web apps and such are dependent on how the
application is deployed, and many others are dependent on how public
facing things are customized, etc.
COMPATIBILITY
Do the public facing pages and functionality support the following
browsers on the Windows XP and Vista platform: Internet Explorer 6
and 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2?
As well as can be expected. I'm pretty sure most if not all front end
issues have been resolved
Quite a few issues have been resolved but chances are various remain.
Most users who do significant work based on OFBiz create their own
HTML/CSS from scratch rather than trying to refine and then customize
the stuff that comes in the OFBiz ecommerce webapp.
-David
