Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Sage Software Webstore Integration Solution



Sage Software Webstore Integration Solution


With online shopping firmly entrenched as a standard method for consumers to purchase goods and services, a company’s Webstore is an essential component in achieving success and strong growth in Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce environments.

With a Webstore Integration Solution, customer and sales order information is automatically entered into the back-end accounting application from the Webstore front. In turn, product inventory and order status is automatically entered into the Webstore to provide the customer with essential and up-to-date information.

Webstore integration eliminates manual data entry and accompanying errors, improving information flow, increasing efficiency, and achieving savings in time and money.

Types of Integration

An eBridge Webstore Integration Solution offers manual, schedule-based, or real-time integration of data. With manual integration, the movement of data is initiated and dependent upon the user. With scheduled-based integration, data is automatically moved at regular times according to a user-set schedule. With real-time integration, information is immediately inputted into either the Webstore or Traverse via the eBridge Web service without human intervention.



Manual or schedule-based integration requires less initial investment than a real-time solution, and requires up-front parallel storage at the Webstore site to facilitate on-line processing. Real-time integration stores the information at the customer-site only, alleviating the need for “doubled” databases and allocation of ongoing staff resources.

Benefits

• Manual, schedule-based, or real-time integration
• Populate new sales order and return reference to customer
• Product availability check
• Customer check
• Eliminate duplicate data entry
• Free up resources & save time
• Resolve issues quickly

Integration Touchpoints

• Price book from accounting application to Webstore
• Sales Order from Webstore to accounting application
• Order confirmation into Webstore
• Invoice History



By providing an essential component to a business’s B2C and B2B e-commerce systems, the eBridge Webstore Integration Solution ensures your company streamlines its information flow to help achieve higher productivity.

The Solution is not limited to just a "WebStore" eBridge works to integrate information coming in from your eBay Account, Paypal, Yahoo etc. If you have a current website developer and would like to take sales orders in off the website and integrate it with Sage Software solutions such as MAS 90 or MAS 500 we can help you out with the solution.

Can I use this solution with anything else?

In addition to a WebStore integration, the same basic eBridge Software core can be used in an EDI solution so your getting the best of both worlds without shopping around spending even more money on a solution. Customers running our EDI solution in the begining will have the benefit of being able to connect the Web Store information easily or move into EDI with trading partners easily. Imagin taking an order off your website and have it run through your ERP and generate a sales order to your supplier without the data entry??



If you have any Questions about integrating your WebStore please feel free to contact me.

Wayne Thompson

e-Commerce Integration Partner for Sage Software - Account Manager at eBridge Software