On Aug 11, 2005, at 12:09 AM, Al Byers wrote:
> I had someone ask some questions about OFBiz and since I am not
> familiar with these areas I would like to throw them out to the
> list and get some help in answering them:
>
> 1) What payment gateways does this support? What about if I wish
> to process all my payments at a physical register w/in a store
> using a separate system already in place, but have OFBiz control
> inventory/ accounting?
There is a services_*.xml file in the accounting component for each
currently supported payment processor, which right now includes:
clearcommerce, cybersource, pccharge, rita, verisign.
To handle payments externally you'd have to use the payment entry
stuff that is to some extent already in the accounting manager, but
is being extended right now in the accounting extension component.
> 2) Shared inventory: Let's say I have 4 retail stores, all of
> which sell widgets. If store a happens to run out of widget x,
> can I use OFBiz to view a real-time inventory of store b to see if
> I can send my customer to store b to pickup widget x? Further,
> what network connections must exist to support this? Can it be
> done w/out network connection to store b's database? (ie, does
> OFBiz have any way to do realtime 2 way synchronization of
> datastores in a hub and spoke layout so that my database in store
> a has all of store b's data as well?
Yes, this sort of data synchronization is possible and done through
the EntitySync stuff. You can see the example configuration settings
in the PosSyncSettings.xml file (in applications/pos/data). And yes,
this can be done syncing through a central server and even over
unreliable connections with good recovery. The stores don't have to
be able to communicate with eachother, much easier if they don't
actually.
-David
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