Users - used products?

[davidnwelton]

As a side project... I'm wondering how much WorkEffort it might take
to make OFBiz deal with buying and selling used products over the
internet.  Some of what would be needed, proceeding more or less from
easy to difficult:

*) Users able to add/delete/modify products themselves, but only theirs.

*) Users responsible for shipping when payment confirmation arrives,
or at some other predetermined point.

*) All this would have to have a very simple and friendly user
interface - probably bypassing all of the existing facility code?

*) Possibly messy bits very specific to used items shipped directly
from sellers: conflict resolution, reputation ala ebay.

Is this just straying too far from the path to make it a worthwhile
endeavour for a team who is not an expert with OFBiz?

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[BJ Freeman]

Short answer Doable. But a lot of work for the UI.

David Welton sent the following on 6/5/06 3:26 AM:

> As a side project... I'm wondering how much WorkEffort it might take
> to make OFBiz deal with buying and selling used products over the
> internet.  Some of what would be needed, proceeding more or less from
> easy to difficult:
>
> *) Users able to add/delete/modify products themselves, but only theirs.
>
> *) Users responsible for shipping when payment confirmation arrives,
> or at some other predetermined point.
>
> *) All this would have to have a very simple and friendly user
> interface - probably bypassing all of the existing facility code?
>
> *) Possibly messy bits very specific to used items shipped directly
> from sellers: conflict resolution, reputation ala ebay.
>
> Is this just straying too far from the path to make it a worthwhile
> endeavour for a team who is not an expert with OFBiz?
>
> Thankyou,

 
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[Andrew Sykes]

Yes, I'd agree,

Very doable.

There's already some stuff in the ecommerce component to allow users to
create their own digital product, so it's not a great leap from there.

You could probably use some of the facility stuff (inventory etc) to
help where users had more than one of the same product to sell.

As BJ says though, you'd have to put a fair bit of time aside!
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[davidnwelton]

> Very doable.
>
> There's already some stuff in the ecommerce component to allow users to
> create their own digital product, so it's not a great leap from there.

Ok, I had supposed that in terms of modifying the core, that some sort
of permission/access system for products might be the sticking point.
I could see that being useful to other people, though - perhaps
letting their suppliers update some aspects of products, and suppliers
update their facility information (or is that already an easy thing to
hand out on its own without giving away the farm?).

> You could probably use some of the facility stuff (inventory etc) to
> help where users had more than one of the same product to sell.
>
> As BJ says though, you'd have to put a fair bit of time aside!

Sure, didn't expect it to be a walk in the park, but we need to
evaluate whether it's simpler to just roll our own, which I could see
being the case if we ended up with an OFBiz so heavily modified and
extended that we're not really taking advantage of all the good stuff
it's got because we've strayed so far from its sweet spot, and are
stuck trying to maintain what amounts to a fork.

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[Andrew Sykes]

David,

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 13:21 +0200, David Welton wrote:
> Ok, I had supposed that in terms of modifying the core, that some sort
> of permission/access system for products might be the sticking point.
> I could see that being useful to other people, though - perhaps
> letting their suppliers update some aspects of products, and suppliers
> update their facility information (or is that already an easy thing to
> hand out on its own without giving away the farm?).

The permission is handled on a per-customer basis, this isn't like
allowing a supplier to manage a huge set of products, it's actually
designed for a digital product version of what you're talking about.
That being said, you'd need to do a bit of work to make it fit for
purpose, but then think of the kudos of submitting that back! ;-)

It's not going to be so difficult that it would be easier to roll-your-
own.

Follow best practices for creating a hot-deploy component and you'll be
able to cherry pick what you need.
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