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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 12:45
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Hi all,
So I've been doing a lot of research in finding a long term solution to move forward with as an Ecommerce platform. I have some key things I want it to do and I would like to know if Ubercart is the best way to go forward? Couple of things I want it to do are

- Be able to provide vendors a good inventory management solution. This would be items in stock, re-order levels, alerts when stocks are low.
- Storing supplier details and products they buy from them
- Good reporting for sales and stock reports and things like that
- Integration with Google Analytics so vendors know what products are being viewed the most and so on
- Ability to have a multi vendor site using sub domains. The main domain will host products from sub domains. Each sub domain will be a different vendor with their own check out

So these are some of the key things I want to achieve. I'm not sure if I go with Ubercart there will be a lot of development to be done to achieve this? Perhaps you can share with me your experience. But I'm trying to provide a ecommerce portal for SMEs to list their products and sell online whilst having a main site where people can search for items they are looking for.

Hope this makes sense.

Appreciate your feedback and guidance.

Thank you in advance.

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Mon, 10/19/2009 - 12:37
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Good reporting for sales and

Good reporting for sales and stock reports and things like that

Poorly lacking in this field I think. Coming from Sage its very primitive - no reorder levels, no supplier references, no shortfall, no location/bin fields, only one unique reference etc.

That said someone, somewhere will either be working on this or thinking about it, or be ready to be paid for it. For example, until a couple of months ago VAT was a major failing of ubercart, but its fantastic now (and I paid for a new feature in uc_vat and its now even better).

I, for one, am adding a Reorder level so you produce a list of what to order, not just what needs ordering.

This side of uc needs more work (maybe a Extended Stock Module?) but otherwise it has all the power of drupal and you can pretty much achieve anything.

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Mon, 10/19/2009 - 12:39
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p.s. judging by some of your questions, it may be worth a visit to drupal.org or drupalmodules.com to see whats available (esp. subdomains etc). Rules is a pretty powerful module and I am sure some of your requirements could be cobbled together with a little work (by you or paid).
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