Mike, Thanks for posting a nice success story about Satchmo. It is useful to me to hear these success stories. Sometimes we get so bogged down in the bugs and issues, we don't see the successes that are out there. Thanks again and congrats on a nice looking site.
-Chris On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Mike Hostetler <[email protected]>wrote: > I submitted this to the Satchmo sites page, but I think it's worth a > mention on the list as well -- because really shows how much you can extend > a Satchmo store. > > We just finalized Powerhouse Distributing's site, which really would not > have been possible without Satchmo and Django. > http://www.powerhousetoolparts.com/ > > (I admit -- there are some image quirks left. . . we are working on them. . > . .) > > This is not a yadda-yadda e-commerce site. The customer can find or search > for their power tool, and see the part breakdown on it, find their part, and > add it to their cart. Satchmo isn't actually used until the user puts it in > their cart -- the Manufacturer listings and part breakdown is all part of > the custom Django app that I wrote to sit in front of it. This doesn't > count the off-line process that syncs the site's inventory and pricing to > their internal inventory system for their brick and mortar store. > > Oh, and the site has a bit over 200k products in it -- not all are active > yet. I think the active number is 11k products. But more will be active as > more tools are configured on the site. > > A site like this would not be possible without Satchmo being so > configurable -- nor without it being written in Django. Chris and the other > maintainers and committers should feel proud of themselves for making just > an extensible product. > > Finally, I can't take credit for the nice looking front-end for Powerhouse > Distributing. That was conceived and implemented by my good friends at > Image Made Design: > > http://imagemadedesign.com/ > > So my kudos go out to Chris Moffitt and everyone else who has helped out. > > -- > Mike Hostetler > SquarePeg Systems > http://www.squarepegsystems.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Satchmo users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
