One other important point here:
For our client implementations we are typically dealing with retailers
who have a back-end ERP fulfillment system already. This will take
orders from eComm, customer service calls, stores, catalog orders etc.
So they are typically using BigFish for eComm and existing ERP for
everything else.
Our approach for these types of retailers is to provide a user friendly
XML interface whereby the retailer provides daily updates of products,
including variants. The BigFish XML Loader will process the XML file and
make the appropriate updates. So, for our current clients this is how
Product information is typically updated, and all systems remain in
sync. The XML load jobs are wrapped into services which are wrapped into
scheduled jobs -- we essentially poll for files, and any files found are
processed and logged.
That's not to say that we shouldn't allow for Variants to be managed and
added via the Admin Module, just to let you know that our priority has
been in XML feed processing. You may also be interested to know that the
XML feeds is much more encompassing than just products:
INCOMING (from client ERP to BigFish):
Products
Order Status Changes
Product Ratings
Stores
OUTGOING (from BigFish to client ERP):
Customers
Orders
Contact-Us Events
Request Catalog Requests
All wrapped in services and scheduled jobs.
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
[email protected]
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On 8/31/2012 8:39 AM, Nick Rosser wrote:
Good to hear that you're playing with the demo implementations and
have gotten to the point of adding a variant.
You've stumbled across a feature that is not yet developed, this will
be supported in the next release.
Note: you can always add the variant using OOTB OFBiz.
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
[email protected]
O: 516.742.7888 x221
C: 516.901.1720
On 8/31/2012 5:19 AM, Ofbiz 开发 wrote:
Hi Nick,
I just tried out your BigFish fashion demo backend and frontend, it
doesn't seem to have anywhere to specify the product's colour and
size etc in add new product or manage product, how do you add product
variant please? Thanks.
Kind Regards
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Nick Rosser <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
OFBiz user community:
A quick update for the BigFish eCommerce project. For more
details please visit http://bigfish.salmonllc.com. The best way
to view what this is all about is to click on the "Demo" link and
play around. The Fashion House and Electronic Store demos show
the majority of features that are available.
Significant feature enhancements since the last release are as
follows:
** Many small enhancements and fixes, in both the eCommerce and
Admin modules
** Rotating Carousel: Fashion House and Electronic Store both
have implementation examples. Content maintained in Admin Module
(Content / Home page spots).
** QuickLook on Product Listing Page (PLP): prototype available,
still needs some tweaks to control the transition
** Product "Variant" enhancements. Check out the Fashion House
demo at http://bigfish.salmonllc.com:8082/osafe/control/main.
Click on Apparel / Blouses. Play with the "swatches", works very
well in Product Detail Page. Also integrated into the SOLR
facets. On the Fashion House demo execute a site search for
"pink" -- you'll see the pink variant image of the "3/4 sleeve
button down". Search for "white" and you'll see the white
version. Works nicely.
** Mega Menu. Both Fashion House and Electronic Store demos have
examples of overriding the standard navigation drop-down with a
more expansive "mega menu". Content managed in Admin Module
(Content / Product Category Content).
** Under the covers (CSS): we've spent a lot of time
consolidating and cleaning up the CSS, for both eCommerce and
Admin. For adopters this should greatly simplify styling for your
desired look-and-feel. Tools in the Admin Module (Admin / Tools)
to store new style sheets and switch CSS files. Currently working
on alternate styles for the Admin Module (for some reason folks
don't seem to like our classic "in your face orange" styling!).
** Admin Module, enhancements to support all additional features,
enhanced Order Status changes (on the Orders tab).
ROAD MAP ...
For a complete list of features, what's coming soon, and our road
map go to http://bigfish.salmonllc.com/bfFeatures.html.
There was some previous interest in the multi-site capability of
BigFish. We've made some baseline changes to control the
separation of Product catalog, and the Admin Module understands
this separation. We have a clear idea as to how to separate out
the other content (home page, static pages etc.) and will be
implementing this shortly.
NEW CLIENTS ...
The community may be interested to know that we're working on two
client implementations, both decent mid-sized companies. Our
general sales prospecting efforts are beginning to pick up some
momentum and we typically have 2 client demos each week ...
obviously hoping that we will be converting some of these into
real clients over the coming weeks and months. We've also found
that the BigFish solution stacks up quite well when comparing to
Magento and other pay-for competitors. We don't have any
particular "white papers" or similar documentation but obviously
the price point is a very attractive feature. In terms of
integration we are leveraging our custom software history as a
way to ensure prospects of our capability and our ability to
implement a robust, stable, expandable and flexible solution. The
rich functionality of the OFBiz baseline is key here -- and every
BigFish implementation is by nature an OFBiz implementation so
hopefully this will bring more attention to the OFBiz project
during the rest of this year.
As always, comments, questions, suggestions are welcome!
--
Best Regards,
Nick Rosser
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
O: 516.742.7888 x221 <tel:516.742.7888%20x221>
C: 516.901.1720 <tel:516.901.1720>
