[Zope-dev] the birth of ZCommerce

[Josh Zeidner]

>
>Most high end accounting packages would use a SQL backend, I would
>presume.
>

  Or Com/CORBA...

>It's been my experince that alot of companies will have some POS (That's
>point of sales) system and then have some other accounting system say
>MAS90, QuickBooks, or some retched little thing still running under dos.
>What I was thinking was just a MarketItems object (to steal from EMarket)
>that can be placed anywhere in the zope DB that provides a solid api for
>listing, adding, and removing inventory items. It can then be inherited
>from so that it can pull from a SQL db, use MS Com to talk to Quicken if
>possible, or pull information our of the stack of papers on my desk.
>

  No fair! I thought of that first. :)

>
> >
> > >* Credit Card Processor object *cough Wampum Generator cough cough*
> > >* And a way to do reporting (This makes my head hurt)
> >
> >    - this could be taken care of by the accounting software.
> >
>There again, not all accounting packages process credit cards. If you
>check out the Wampum Generator (excuse me while I pat myself on the back)
>at www.zope.org/Download/Contrib you'll find a CyberCash connector that I
>just uploaded yesterday for Zope.

>Of course it dosen't compile under
>Windows yet, I don't have access to a windows compiler.

  are you distributing the source for Wampum?



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