| Certainly, if you are building ecommerce from | | | | rules. If all you need to do is create or update |
| scratch, then you should consider products as the | | | | customer record, and then create Sales Order |
| base of your future ecommerce web application. | | | | and possibly apply credit card customer payment |
| However, and this is probably your case, in | | | | (for Credit Card Processing you should deploy |
| ecommerce scenarios we often see legacy | | | | third party products: PC Charge, IC Verify, etc.) |
| ecommerce portal, which does the job, and your | | | | – eConnect does this job |
| role is to give some impulse as software | | | | 2. Dynamics GP Integration Manager. If you do |
| developer in your IT department to ecommerce | | | | not see yourself as Microsoft Visual Studio |
| integration evolution. In this case you are moving | | | | developer, and you are OK to do integration in |
| away from emailing orders “automatically” | | | | batch mode overnight or every few hours, |
| from ecommerce to Great Plains users to | | | | consider Great Plains Integration Manager. If you |
| somewhat like batch overnight ecommerce Sales | | | | have very basic programming skills, probably from |
| Invoices and Payments processing or even in ideal | | | | high school, IM has VBA scripting, where you can |
| case to real time Invoices creation triggering from | | | | tweak Integration logic a little bit. IM could be |
| ecommerce to Dynamics GP SOP module. | | | | scheduled for shutting integration, Microsoft |
| Popular PHP based ecommerce shopping carts | | | | Business Solutions has scheduling tool, however |
| also create customer profile on the fly or update | | | | you could schedule it via DOS batch file or third |
| existing customer. In this case integration goes | | | | party add-ons |
| to Receivable Management Customer Master file | | | | 3. Alba Spectrum Order Connector. Thinking |
| in Great Plains. Let’s take a look at technical | | | | about IM or even eConnect, where integration |
| side or programming tools: | | | | logic is rich and requires processing time and |
| 1. Dynamics GP eConnect. If you are | | | | power, when you need simple repetitive |
| comfortable in programming in C# or VB.Net, and | | | | integrations on the very high volume, we have |
| you have basic SQL scripting and stored | | | | Order Connector, written in very direct SQL |
| procedures understanding – we recommend | | | | stored procedures, providing astonishing |
| you to invest your time in eConnect. For | | | | integration speed |
| Dynamics GP version 10.0 it is installed | | | | 4. Posting Server or Autopost. Here you are |
| automatically on your DB side. eConnect, in fact, | | | | breaking through eConnect or Integration Manager |
| does have most of the logic, that you would be | | | | limitations and you can now post Great Plains |
| trying to build in custom SQL stored procedures. | | | | Batches automatically from your eCommerce |
| However, eConnect stored procedures are | | | | application |
| encrypted and you would need to formalize your | | | | 5. Give us a call: 1-866-528-0577, 6. |
| programming logic to accommodate eConnect | | | | |