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Re: [mv] Billing-System Yes and No
****** message to minivend-users from "Mr. Christopher F. Miller" <cfm@maine.com> ******
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 05:37:38PM +0100, Marius Schaefer wrote:
> has anyone build up a complete billing system in MV? I mean that you can
> view the orders via browser, edit them and print out a bill and a
> deliverynote?
Yes and no:
We have build a very partial order system in MV: I mean that you can
view the orders via browser, edit them and print out an invoice, packing
slip, and deliverynote? If you search the archives you will find
others have that too.
That is **no way** a complete billing system. ;^)
--
Our current development thrust for this year is to generalize that.
Minivend will be one (of many) interfaces to a full blown accounting
system/call center back end. This is so embryonic that we have only
begun to gather the parts: point of sale, bar code, call center, modules
for accounting, etc.... and we have not even researched what others
are doing in the area or even really charted our own path - hence
this note to minivendors. The whole thing may already have been
invented elsewhere (please!).
We'll probably develop some sort of glueware that ties the parts
together and abstracts the specific field definitions and processes
each particular part uses. The best analogies are DBI::DBD or
maybe PAM; one would have ACC::Minivend, ACC::POS, ACC::Peachtree
or libacc_minivend.so, libacc_pos.so, libacc_peachtree.so and
so forth.
It is a truly mind-boggling scope of work, particularly
since most of the parts are used to being (and must be able to
function as) their own king-of-the-hill. And no matter how
your customer orders a gift certificate for a lobster
dinner, both certificate and goods shipped by fedex, on a Tuesday
Seniors Discount day, with a coupon, the price and resulting
order has to be the same.
It might not even be do-able.
>
> Any comments welcome ~:o)
Is that enough? Can anyone else help out on this? It will be
linux, perl, C, tcl/tk, SQL. The glueware will be one of the
various public licenses; the modules will vary by vendor.
OK, now I'm out on that limb. Help me out! ;^)
cfm
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Christopher F. Miller, Publisher cfm@maine.com
MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039
1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/
Database publishing, e-commerce, office/internet integration, Debian linux.
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