That's quite an interesting proposition. I guess HotWax Systems already used it in production?
Jacques Le 27/02/2015 09:17, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
Hi all, in the last year, the research and development lab of HotWax Systems has implemented a series of components and tools for OFBiz. Some of them are ready-to-be-used applications and, in my opinion, would be a good fit for OFBiz. After discussing the topic internally, we believe that the community could benefit from them and at the same time help to further improve them. Accordingly, I would like to start by exploring with you the opportunity to include in OFBiz our integration with Magento eCommerce platform. Magento eCommerce (http://magento.com/products/overview) is a popular solution for merchants; it is an open source product (but the company is owned by eBay). In terms of features it competes with the OFBiz ecommerce component, but it is easier to setup and with a shorter go to market. For these reasons it is a good fit for small-medium merchants that need an ecommerce store with no backend capabilities and it has a very large users base. We realized that there could be a rather large group of merchants, already using Magento for online sales, that may be interested in integrating it with a powerful ERP system for the backend tasks (order fulfillment, accounting etc...). The integration component we have implemented has a nice user interface to import categories, products, orders from Magento eCommerce and then synch held/cancelled orders; there are screens to manage shipment options and product store settings. You can find some screenshot here: http://people.apache.org/~jacopoc/magento-integration-2.png http://people.apache.org/~jacopoc/magento-integration-3.png http://people.apache.org/~jacopoc/magento-integration-4.png http://people.apache.org/~jacopoc/magento-integration-5.png Arun Patidar led the effort and is happy to provide additional details so please feel free to ask any questions. In my opinion this product could be integrated as a specialpurpose component, but I am open to suggestions. What do you think? Jacopo
