Recommendations?. Client Order Form w/ Admin back-end
I'm looking for recommendations on a system that a client can fill out the requested info, info can be reviewed, then submitted, there is a back-end admin that tracks the orders, etc. Would also like it to have a private member area where they can view pages and download an item that's been uploaded specifically for them, print out a receipt etc..
Anything out there like this? All I can find are Order form scripts for "products".
I want to take client info not have them order products, accept to maybe select certain service options that are priced differently.
JeevesBond posted this at 21:20 — 31st January 2007.
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I've never heard of a sales system that can do this (unfortunately). What's your coding ability? If you're able to spend some time and know PHP I'd recommend using Drupals ecommerce module. It's designed as a generic 'ecommerce platform' so it's very open-ended and allows you to develop whatever sort of shop you want.
The main drupal site is: http://www.drupal.org
The ecommerce module is at: http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce
There are also lots of modules in the commerce category to look at: http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/55
You should know about versions: there's very recently been a release of Drupal taking it to version 5. A large number of the ecommerce modules haven't been ported to the new version yet, so you may want to start on version 4.x and move up to 5 once all the modules you need are available.
I'm confident Drupal can fulfill your needs, although it will take a bit to learn. Unfortunately I don't think there's an easy solution to your problem though!
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leeuniverse posted this at 05:01 — 7th February 2007.
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Ya, joomla has something similar, but I'm really not wanting to use a cms.
leeuniverse posted this at 04:36 — 15th February 2007.
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Any more thoughts?
timjpriebe posted this at 13:25 — 15th February 2007.
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Uh, I can't think of any ecommerce packages that are not technically a CMS.
It sounds like regardless of what starting point you pick, whether it be a CMS or start from scratch, you'll need quite a bit of custom programming to pull something like that off.
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leeuniverse posted this at 03:03 — 16th February 2007.
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Ya, I'm thinking the same. I just can't believe know-one has released such a system yet. I know lot's of business implement that kind of system.
JeevesBond posted this at 00:37 — 21st February 2007.
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Well, maybe it's time you developed a drupal module to do it then.
Seriously though, there are a lot of sponsored Drupal modules. If you know of a few businesses that need this functionality then it's possible one of them will sponsor you to do it. Failing that, you'll be creating something of use to you and many people.
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