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cfcommerce-feature-list     Version 3 of 16, edit by athanasiusrc, 16 Oct 2007
Based on the discussion from Feature List / Database Structure
  1. Back-end Admin
    1. User management
    2. Inventory Management
    3. Data Entry
      1. Bulk price / data updates from forms or files
      2. Bulk item entry from spreadsheets 
    4. Reporting
    5. Fulfillment which includes order processing, receiving and shipping
    6. Content management
    7. Marketing (if you want to have email blasts integrated with your system)
    8. Possible retail point of sale
    9. Article / content management 
    10. Affiliate management
    11. Data feed management (Froogle, Shopzilla, etc.)
    12. Banner admin 
  2. Registration/authentication
  3. User Admin
  4. Product Catalog
    1. Personalization (for monograms, engraving)
    2. Customizable items (shirt size / color) - This is tough as inventory control says you need to keep count of each style variation. Needs some thought for implementation.
    3. Product comparison
    4. Gift certificates
    5. Coupons
    6. Different image displays for items (lightbox, 360 view, popups or on page, etc)
    7. Robust product search that can make use of verity or real language search or plugins such as the Google appliance.
    8. Articles about products
    9. Customer product reviews
    10. Audio samples
    11. Downloadable products
  5. Shopping Cart
    1. Product up / cross sell
  6. Checkout System
    1. Ability to handle different tax schemes  
    2. Purchase orders for credit accounts.
  7. Plug-in development. Provide a way for other authors to easily develop plug-ins
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Latest 3 messages about this page (11 total) - view full discussion
23 Oct 2007 by Nick Tong
I believe where we can have things as plugin we should. This brings in some
complexity but with a good business object we should be able to nail this.
19 Oct 2007 by Chris Jordan
I really feel like all reports should be plug-ins. That doesn't mean that
the program wouldn't have some stock reports installed out-of-the-box, but
the user should be able to add and remove reports at will (imo) upto and
including no reports at all.
Product forecasting just seems like something that not everyone will need.
19 Oct 2007 by athanasiusrc
I think that reporting and exporting data into spreadsheets at the
least should be part of the core. A Quickbook export feature could be
a plug in. Apart from building a good cart model, we should be
encouraging good business practices. Without reporting, a business is
flying blind.
Inventory Day is when you do inventory of your stock on hand. At our
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