EPOS Updates to an ECommerce Site - Help Me :(

suarve · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:49

Hi,

I'm working on a quote for a pretty large ecommerce site at the moment.

One of the requirements is that the website stock must match the stock as per the stock in their shop on an EPOS system (WASP???).

I did one in the past where a list of website transactions were exported in csv format from the site and imported into the EPOS system to update all stocks levels at the end of the day, but this is different, as the shop is quite busy and the stock level needs to live. So, I need a way to query the live stock from the EPOS in the clients shop and display it on the website.

Basically, does anyone have any experience in making this link so the site could query the EPOS for the live stock level? I'm Googling but there doesn't seem to be a lot about this.

Just trying to work out costing - is it is a big job, very involved, even possible lol

etc.?

Ta

Rob

Dj_Jestar · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:54

Which implementation of EPOS? There's a lot of vagueness.

suarve · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:58

Yer sorry it's WASP. Just need to know if it's possible, if anyone has some helpful links and how involved it is

akakjs · 28 Mar 2011 at 18:56

mm if I'm reading the feature list on the WASP website correctly, even their intergrated stock management isn't real-time ("Distribute and share information between physical locations using a polling operation"). No mention I could see of an API either.

There is a "value-added resellers and solution providers" program on their website called WaspLink, I suspect more information might be had there if you contact them.

Honestly this screams closed development community with poor vendor support. I'd run a mile.

akakjs

suarve · 28 Mar 2011 at 19:14

akakjs said:
mm if I'm reading the feature list on the WASP website correctly, even their intergrated stock management isn't real-time ("Distribute and share information between physical locations using a polling operation"). No mention I could see of an API either.

There is a "value-added resellers and solution providers" program on their website called WaspLink, I suspect more information might be had there if you contact them.

Honestly this screams closed development community with poor vendor support. I'd run a mile.

akakjs

Would be a shame if I coulodn't do this really, as querying a stock level really isn't overly complicated.

Will give em a call tomorrow.

Dj_Jestar · 28 Mar 2011 at 23:29

Could be a perfect job for an eventually consistent system

I'll bet a substantial amount of money there will be margin for a small delay - nothing is immediate, particularly on the web!

akakjs is right about it being closed community. EPOS vendors are very tight lipped because they have a somewhat niche market, though it is biting them in the bum these days because new systems are replacing them (because they have been so tight lipped etc.)

suarve · 29 Mar 2011 at 12:09

Aha, kind of result.

Apparently I can query an ODBC database for the stock level, just spoke to WASP on the phone and they are sooooooooo protective.

UncleRuckus · 29 Mar 2011 at 12:21

suarve said:
Aha, kind of result.

Apparently I can query an ODBC database for the stock level, just spoke to WASP on the phone and they are sooooooooo protective.

Me thinks that they want you to pay money to WASP so they can sort it out for you

gord · 29 Mar 2011 at 13:16

suarve said:
Aha, kind of result.

Apparently I can query an ODBC database for the stock level, just spoke to WASP on the phone and they are sooooooooo protective.

Ask them for some documentation and you can literally hear the mental explosion down the phone line.

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