[ic] Handling inventory

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Wed Nov 28 17:06:01 2001


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:30:49PM -0700, George Loch wrote:
> The client is a motorcycle dealership who needs an online store. The trick
> with these guys is that a lot of the stuff must be ordered but, there are
> some things that they stock and will stock more based on demand.
> 
> They use Lightspeed as their management suite. It's client/server running on
> windows.
> 
> Is that enough info?

Getting there.  How does one talk to lightspeed?  You say client/server;
is there an api with which you can talk directly to lightspeed?  Or
a database for perl DBD, etc...  or is it using *.mdb - in which
case you are close to but not quite dead (and will probably wish
you were dead)?

Timeliness and item count don't sound critical.  Maybe you can do 
a file dump daily, parse it and load that into the store?  Can it 
be automated?  If not, it's not going to happen reliably.

Is their network on the net?  How can you get data back and forth
to the store through the firewall?



> 
> George Loch
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > It depends entirely on what you have already.
> >
> > It depends on your network architecture, how important it is
> > to be exact, how time critical, etc....  For most online stores
> > it is irrelevant, for some that deal in "one ofs" it is critical.
> >
> > What are the details?
> >
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Christopher F. Miller, Publisher                               cfm@maine.com
MaineStreet Communications, Inc           208 Portland Road, Gray, ME  04039
1.207.657.5078                                         http://www.maine.com/
Content/site management, online commerce, internet integration, Debian linux