Inventory monitoring issue

[Liver Kid]

Currently using Shop Site Manager but will upgrade to Pro if we can
accomplish what we want...

My client has an on-line store as well as over the phone sales and possibly
a brick and mortar store as well in the near future. He wants to have one
central database that monitors his inventory. When a product is sold over
the phone and/or in his brick and mortar store, they can subtract the proper
amount of inventory through a key stroke entry. The challenge is that the
on-line sales subtract form the same inventory, yet there's no way, short of
monitoring the system every minute, to know what has been sold, therefore
know what the true inventory is.

I've looked into the Shop Site on-line help and found this:
Can I use ShopSite to track my product inventory?
Yes, ShopSite Pro includes inventory tracking, which tracks the number of
products ordered. Merchants can configure their stores to alert them via
e-mail when stock gets low and to prevent customers from ordering products
that are out of stock.

This doesn't work because we want the information to be instantaneous, or at
least very frequent. My client is using Quick Books and I found this link in
the help files:

http://www.shopsite.com/help/7.1/en-US/ ... ducts.html

which basically says orders can be downloaded in a Quick Book Format. Is
there any way to automate this process so that every 30 minutes (or whatever
time frame we decide on) the orders could be automatically downloaded into
Quick Books?

Thanks

[Barney Stone]

What your client needs is an order management system that handles ShopSite,
phone and point-of-sale orders, and can consolidate inventory tracking for
all three. The Stone Edge Order Manager (www.StoneEdge.com/OrderManager.htm)
is ideally suited for that. It imports orders from ShopSite (as well as
about 20 other shopping carts and sales channels such as Amazon, eBay and
Shop.com). It also handles phone/mail/fax orders, and it includes a
point-of-sale (computer cash register) system. They all share the same
inventory, and the program includes many other tools that will help your
client manage their operations. The average installed price is less than
$1,500, so it is very affordable. For more information, please see our
Website, or give us a call at 215-641-1837.

- Barney Stone, President
Stone Edge Technologies, Inc.
www.StoneEdge.com


"Liver Kid" <LiverKd@Comcast.net> wrote in message
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Currently using Shop Site Manager but will upgrade to Pro if we can
accomplish what we want...

My client has an on-line store as well as over the phone sales and
possibly a brick and mortar store as well in the near future. He wants to
have one central database that monitors his inventory. When a product is
sold over the phone and/or in his brick and mortar store, they can
subtract the proper amount of inventory through a key stroke entry. The
challenge is that the on-line sales subtract form the same inventory, yet
there's no way, short of monitoring the system every minute, to know what
has been sold, therefore know what the true inventory is.

I've looked into the Shop Site on-line help and found this:
Can I use ShopSite to track my product inventory?
Yes, ShopSite Pro includes inventory tracking, which tracks the number of
products ordered. Merchants can configure their stores to alert them via
e-mail when stock gets low and to prevent customers from ordering products
that are out of stock.

This doesn't work because we want the information to be instantaneous, or
at least very frequent. My client is using Quick Books and I found this
link in the help files:

http://www.shopsite.com/help/7.1/en-US/ ... ducts.html

which basically says orders can be downloaded in a Quick Book Format. Is
there any way to automate this process so that every 30 minutes (or
whatever time frame we decide on) the orders could be automatically
downloaded into Quick Books?

Thanks