We are looking to create an ecommerce site using Magento. The site will contain about 1500-2000 products related to hardware tools.
The general features will be expected such as catalogue management, shipping, taxes, product browsing features, compare feature.
The design will be provided by us, but would like to liase with developer to see which elements can be styled and designed (i.e. icons, boxes etc)
The key features that we would like using magento are:
1) very good search and compare facility
2) Easy reporting for sales, VAT, refunds, stock control etc
3) related items, product upselling
4)special promotion, clearance stores
5) powerful tax system that allows for international users
There are two main features we require that magento doesn’t provide off-the-shelf:
1) Each product will still need a supplier (that can be selected from a drop down of all suppliers).
– Set up supplier details in database (name, address etc)
– Select the supplier for each product individually (from drop down)
– Supplier will not be shipping goods, we will be shipping goods
2) We would like an order report created everyday (that will be checked 3 times a day) with customers who have bought products, customer details, product details and supplier for each product. We would like the supplier to be in a drop down as we may want to change the supplier (in case we can get it cheaper elsewhere) Once we are happy with the orders, there should be a button to press submit. This will send an email to all suppliers a list of products we would like to purchase from them.
This will allow suppliers to send the products to the shop and then they will ship them directly to customer
3)We would like to have an easy stock control system which allows us to manually update the stock online. I do not know if Magento can do this, but it will something like the following:
- Should be a table format with following fields: Product (drop down), Current Quantity on web (number), Quantity bought from suppliers (number), Quantity sold in shop (number), Quantity remaining (calculates current quantity + quantity bought – quantity sold) and updates the system accordingly
- User should be able to add another product for the next row so he can edit as many products as he wants.
There should be an undo button, or a way or making sure mistakes can be reversed.
In Magento, I have seen that you can go directly into each product and change, but this would make it easy to do a lot of products at the same time. If this feature is not already inbuilt in Magento, you can let us know if you can build such as requirement.
Here are some sample sites:
www.screwfix.com
www.axminster.co.uk
www.fixy.co.uk
www.toolbank.com
www.powertools.co.uk
www.tool-shop.co.uk
www.toolstop.co.uk
www.powertools2u.co.uk
www.toolsdirect.com
Please PM if you have any questions.
