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namit

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Hey all,

Am new to e-commerce websites,
Am looking for product/package that does the following


  1. Automatic invoicing for incoming orders
  2. Ability to send an automatic email to the customer, acknowledging their order
  3. Automatic stock control / management. I have this with Quickbooks at the moment, but it doesn’t link with my website and I don’t use it effectively. Plus, it’s not linked to the website, where it could be updated as people place orders.
  4. Accounts and banking – very important
  5. Full Contact Management function.
I could get a separate system for this, but it would just mean double entry again which I’m trying to avoid.

Have come across some packages but they all work out very very expensive.

Anyone recommend products they know of or have used?

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namit

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The only thing with that that can find is the support is 2 days, what if my site is down for 2 days that was be disaster!

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googlebomber76

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Zen is a good place to start, It won't do everything you want but without a big budget your not going to get an all in one system...

The 3 to look at are Magento, Joomla and Zen, there is a lot of support for these products....
 

daemonbit

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A couple of guys suggested Magento and I would certainly agree but depending on how much work you want to do with it. Magento really is a beast and requires buckets of man hours for a for a well designed site (not using the default template slightly modified) set up and configured properly with somebody who knows Magento well (at least 2 projects) you are talking several weeks. Anybody who tells you different is either a). telling porkies, b). crazy, or c). telling porkies. The reason the package is so complete and Open Source at the same time is that Magento get stacks of consulting work - they have recently launched a Pro option which looks pretty cool.

Another very nice solution to look at which is by far easier, is quite well designed (from an engineering perspective) and has plenty of features is Presta shop - it is yards faster - even with Magento's caching turned on. It has PDF invoicing and a stack of other features.

Hope this helps.
 
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