[interchange-biz] Interchange Developer Needed

[Richard Webb]

Hi, I need a good suggestion for an order management program for multiple ecommerce sites. I currently own 5 health food related drop ship web sites. Each one is built around a different drop ship supplier so as to avoid the multiple shipping costs. They are also using different ecommerce solutions. For example, I am using OS Commerce for one. That site has 8000 products. Another site is using Yahoo store. That site has 600+ products. Another site uses a system called Vermotion, with 5500 products. Another site uses ShopSite, with 400+ products, but will be increased to 7000. The last site also has 400 products, but will be increased to 2000. 
I have orders coming in from 4 of the sites so far and I need a way to get all of the orders coming in to one place. 

I need something that is: 

1) Web based Order Management(so it can be accessed from anywhere). 
2) Can be easily configured to import the orders from the various web sites. 
3) Needs to have the ability to import the costs of the products and display the total profit (profit from product & shipping) on the order summary page for each order. Because the costs from the various suppliers change, it must allow for reconciliation of the actual cost from the supplier. One idea would be to display the estimated profit in one color and then when it is reconciled to show it in another color. 
4) Open Source (so that additional modifications can be made in the future). 
5) Provide accounting functions or the ability to easily transfer orders to QuickBooks. 

I realize that what I have described (especially #3) may not exist, but this is what I need and I am willing to pay a programmer to help me get to this point in the shortest amount of time possible. I have looked at Interchange, which seems to be pretty robust as an order management solution, but I'd need a programmer to get it working as described above. 

Please let me know if you might be interested in a project of this nature using Interchange and what you think it might take to develop this in terms of time and money. Even a rough idea would be helpful.

Or, if what I have described is better suited for some ERP or CRM solution (and not Interchange), please let me know. I just want to find the system that will do what I've described and will be flexible enough for additional modifications in the future, which is why I'm leaning toward Open Source.

Any recommendations or suggestions would be helpful... 


Thanks,

Richard Webb
http://www.mannaharvest.net
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