Epicerie des allergique is an online store built on the ecommerce open source package, Magento. With this project, I got a nice exposure to Magento ecommerce, where I had to dig in, to make some modules and to create an external communication from the site. I have worked as a dedicated programmer for this project. The interaction I had with the client contact, Richard Good, was the most important part in the success of this project. We had regular meetings to discuss the progress of the work and to analyze the upcoming tasks. We always made sure we didn’t spend much time on discussions and therefore the work was moving according to our plan. The cooperation and understanding of Richard was really great.
The most important part of this simple shop is its communication with a desktop application, XLPos (The client used this in the shop to manage the products and its inventory). We are updating the stocks, product details and prices every 30 minutes using a cron job. In this process, we are adding new products, if any, to the online store and updating the existing products, if any new updates are there. The next process is to update the product stocks based on the sales. And the last process is to send the orders we got in the site to the XLPos. These processes update and maintain the products, stock and price in the site and shop, frequently. We are using magento modules as the base for importing the product and stock to the online store and for exporting the orders from here. (more…)
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