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If you already have eCommerce website with popular ecommerce shopping cart platforms, such as ASP .Net Store Front, or Magento/PHP in Business-to-Business or Business-to-Customer models, we would like to give you highlights on shopping cart integration to Microsoft Dynamics GP or Great Plains, how this mid-market Corporate ERP application was known initially.  First of all, we would like to stress, that in our believe popular ecommerce shopping cart platforms have quite a large number of installations in USA and internationally (they are pretty solid with most of the bugs detected and fixed with direct customer support from the original software development companies) and we discourage you to do custom shopping cart programming.  We also believe that customers with existing ecommerce web application do not like the idea to trash the ecommerce website and redeploy it on another product base – we respect that position and we would like to help you on getting existing ecommerce site integrated with your ERP application, in our example it is Microsoft Dynamics GP:

1. Where shopping cart goes in Dynamics GP?  The most natural way is to transform shopping cart into Sales Order Processing Sales Order or Invoice.  If you are mid-market or large ecommerce wholesaler (B2B) or retailer (B2C), we recommend you to select SOP type for ecommerce integration with manual line items allocation, as you would likely need to fulfill the Order on the warehouse floor with Picking and Packing with Barcode scanning, please see Warehouse Management System section below on details.  If you are selling with full or partial prepayment (customer credit card) – it is Customer Deposit against Sales Document

2. eCommerce module from Alba Spectrum.  Here you have wizard driven installation and setup, our goal is to open ecommerce integration for you in the matter of few hours, where you pick ecommerce shopping cart platform from drop down list, select default ecommerce warehouse, SOP Type and reasonable number of additional settings.  Ideal solution for B2C ecommerce, in B2B scenario you need more control over Customer specific discounts and pricing – we have features in the integration for B2B as well, but you may expect additional programming and modifications

3. Alternative low budget way of eCommerce integration.  If the number of ecommerce transactions per day is low or moderate (let’s say less than twenty or even one hundred) and ecommerce customer doesn’t need immediate access to the order status, we suggest you to consider ecommerce shopping cart integration to Dynamics GP in Quasi real time (every hour or another small time interval).  If this is acceptable in your ecommerce B2B or B2C trade – consider doing shopping cart integration to SOP Sales Document via Great Plains Integration Manager.  We have case study when computer parts ecommerce retailer deployed IM with custom PHP/MySQL based shopping cart to fire every 5 minutes, where Integration was called by one of the scheduled freeware Windows macro type of programs.  If you do integration manager, we can call us for help, and if you do it on your own, we recommend you to consider IM Source to be chosen as Advanced ODBC, where you can pull transactions directly from ecommerce website database (you are not limited to Microsoft SQL Server, MS Access, XML or Text file – Advanced ODBC is possible in cross-platform scenarios, where shopping cart data resides in Oracle, Ingress, IBM DBII, Lotus Notes, Pervasive SQL, Ctree, MySQL and other ODBC open DB platform)

4. Warehouse Management System add-on for Dynamics GP.  WMS opens Dynamics GP Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing and Inventory Control (with additional components also Bill of Materials and Manufacturing Suite of modules) for Barcoding technology.  Typical Warehouse Management System business logic includes Customer Order Fulfillment, Inventory Restocking and Inventory Transfers and Adjustments (including also Cycle Count, which is in essence mass adjustment).  Alba Spectrum WMS has Server and Client components.  WMS client runs directly on your Barcode scanner operating system and LCD screen.  The client talks to WMS Server via wireless connection or RFID to pull info about existing Sales Orders/Invoices, POP Purchase Receipts and Inventory transactions.  WMS Server is typically Windows computer, connected to your wired network (Level 5 Ethernet cable, Fiber Optic or even wireless, if the WMS transaction level is low) and talks to Dynamics GP DB Server via ODBC connection

5. Second Opinion on failed Dynamics GP implementations, ecommerce integrations, Warehouse management Systems and other Barcoding technology based projects.  We are Dynamics GP, eCommerce and Barcode scanning people.  If somebody from Great Plains resellers community screwed the implementation, please be patient, do not burst out in blaming, seek for second opinion.  As our experience indicates, failures might be attributed to too aggressive telemarketing sales techniques, where local or regional Dynamics GP Partner tries to push through GP software licenses sale (giving you “of course” answers on industry specific questions).  Please, do your homework and check references, be sure your prospective Dynamics GP VAR or ISV has your industry expertise, or sufficient exposure to such technologies as Dexterity, eConnect, Integration Manager, VBA with Modifier, SSRS, Crystal Reports

6. eCommerce for Legacy versions of Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise.  If you are committed to older no longer supported version of GP, such as 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0 we recommend you either to review Integration  Manager route (if you are on old version, chances are high that ecommerce transaction level is moderate or low – IM is covering Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2005, 2000, 7.0, 65. As well as Pervasive SQL 2000 and Ctree based Great Plains versions) or upgrade to the current version of Dynamics GP 2010 (sometimes referred as version 11.0), if you think that business is picking up and you are ready to allocate Great Plains Upgrade Budget.  If you are still on Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows or Mac: 9.5, 9.2, 9.1 or earlier versions we would like to discourage to invest in ecommerce integration for this archaic Corporate ERP platform – consider upgrading all the way to Dynamics GP 2010/11.  We do not want you to do Software investments into the ERP which is only compatible with 32-bit platform

7. How to get further info?  Please, call us 1-866-529-0577 or internationally 1-630-961-5918 or email us help@albaspectrum.com  If you have specific requirements, we encourage you to submit your case via email – we will try to answer with case studies and recommendations.  The nature of our servicing module allows us to serve you with ecommerce, warehouse Management System and generic Dynamics GP support USA, Canada nationwide and internationally via Sales presentations via Web Sessions and Phone (or Skype if internationally) conferences.  If required we travel onsite for initial implementation, especially when hardware setup is required (Barcode Scanner, WMS Server Computer installation, etc.) with following remote support.  We also carry Great Plains Dexterity Software Development Factory and ready for Dynamics GP customization projects from small ones to the Dex projects with unlimited scope.  Local walk-in consulting service is available in Michigan, Illinois, California, Texas

 

eCommerce internet solution is proving its significance in the world of business for the last few years. It has become equally beneficial for entities involved, customers as well as companies who are providing ecommerce solutions. The ratio of providing satisfaction to customers by ecommerce solution providers in the business world is measured unequal or it varies due to many factors.

Global business world is the blend of big business players as well small companies, both are providing ecommerce solutions to their customers at their respective levels. Every company wants to expand their business and internet is the best way to expose products and services and to reach out the customers spread all over the online business sphere. Good technically sound, interactive design, smooth navigation, error-free payment system is some of the qualities or properties of good ecommerce website that helps the companies for exposing their products & services to achieve maximum level of customer satisfaction.

Many studies all over the business world use to conclude variety of results over the concept of ecommerce. Many of them conduct studies with company point of view, such as they use to research on companies ecommerce websites, there are many issues like whether the website is exactly according to company? Whether it is able to gather the potential customer base? Whether the ecommerce website of the company functioning properly?

On the other hand there are also studies conducted on the customer satisfaction, customer complains about ecommerce solutions provided to them, customers good and bad experiences about ecommerce internet solutions as well as variety of customer views about visualization of the ecommerce website and online security of the personal information.

Hence it is concluded by various studies, ecommerce websites are playing key role in between company and customer. Ecommerce website provides the power to both the entities involved, companies need to develop well functioning ecommerce websites and customers expect excellent services from the company and more from their ecommerce website which is main mode of interaction between them.

Power that ecommerce website can bring to business and to achieve highest level of customer satisfaction depends on professional business web design. A website demands for the professional design that makes selling process easy for customers, design of the website is most responsible factor for ecommerce success. Professional design plays great role in any company’s ecommerce website that helps in gathering customers from the online market.

For the success of the ecommerce website there are few important tips that should come under consideration of ecommerce solution providers:

Companies providing ecommerce solutions should understand the value of professional design that gives power to their websites to drive sales.

Online security of the information is another big issue for the ecommerce solution providers. Error full ecommerce website is the big constraint in the success of online business today. There must be online security for attracting more and more customers to ecommerce websites, error-free shopping cart that provides security to personal information of the customers is very essential for the success of online business.

 

Among various effecting factors to ecommerce business websites a “professional ecommerce design” and “error free shopping cart” plays significance role in the world of ecommerce business. Perfect ecommerce website brings great power to ecommerce business in the global online business environment.

 

Don’t know what ecommerce solution is? What purpose does it serve? And still you want to get started with reaping huge profits in online business. Here is the solution.

Let me knock the door of your mind with the meaning of ecommerce. Ecommerce stands for electronic commerce. In broader terms, ecommerce refers to the purchasing or selling of products or services using electronic communication between organizations. In plainer terms, ecommerce solutions are software tools that help you do your business over Internet.Ecommerce solutionswill help your website earn more money and conduct your business without the problem of ‘how’ to receive payment. Ecommerce solution business is upcoming nowadays. Ecommerce solutions make transactions easy. A good and effective ecommerce solution is very hard to find. The best thing to find a good ecommerce solution is to seek the aid of search engine. When looking for an ecommerce solution, shop around and see which one offers you the best deal.

The age when ecommerce was just selling products and services through the web is long gone; most leaders in the industry have found how important it is to integrate of concepts like content management system, order tracking mechanisms, customer relationship management and other workflow systems with their ecommerce applications.

There are several modes of online payments:

? Papal

? TradEnable

? E-Charge Phone

? Internet Cash

But online payments have been made so easy by ecommerce solutions . Let me etch it clearly in your mind that ecommerce solutions are not so easy to deal with. Their installation process is quite complicated. Let me explain it to you by citing a simple example. A company is geared up to install a new ecommerce solution for example, supply chain management but its staff is absolutely apprehensive about the functionality of that solution. As a result, longer time of installation, reduced productivity and deteriorated output etc. So the installation of the software should be efficient.

Let us focus on some key implementation problems:

? Unwillingness to learn on the part of senior managers will disrupt the functionality of the entire hierarchy of the staff

? Lack of sound technical knowledge accounts for improper estimation of efficiency and productivity

? Improper estimation of efficiency and productivity leads to improper utilization of time and money

? Lack of proper understanding of the ecommerce solution increases the work pressure on the entire staff along with making the work tedious and boring also

So if you are planning to install an ecommerce solution, make sure that you use good and efficient ecommerce software. This will lead to a perfect ecommerce solution installation and will also yield better productivity.

Below is the list of some key areas in which one must endeavor to excel if he wishes to set up his online business in congruence with ecommerce solutions:

? Professional design

? Easy-to-use navigation

? Products or services required by users

? Competitive pricing

? Quality content

? Shopping cart

? High-level customization

? Reliable merchant account

? Security

In my opinion, you are wise enough to take care of these aspects once you are all set to experience the taste of success in online business. I hope this information on ecommerce solutions will well equip your software armory to fight the online battle and also assist you in emerging as a victor.