Nice job extending satchmo. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Chris Moffitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
