Sage 100

Client wants to start small and manual on a website but then eventually integrate. ""Small and Manual"" i.e, entering items and qtys manually themselves, entering orders manually, etc. Any direction to give him for starting small that can grow into something that will integrate with Sage?

I've had customers ask this. They buy eBusiness. Then they spend lots of hours customizing it. Fast forward a year and it's ""why does eBusiness suck?"". Well, remember you just wanted the basics? If they just want remote entry how about RDP to an instance of Sage. That's probably the cheapest and most flexible (and secure).

IDK, i just point them directly to Website Pipeline. Even for the smallest of websites. Sometimes it gets them excited to see where it can go.

My customer who tried the ""we will only use it sporadically"" wound up hiring someone who devoted almost full time to eBusiness. They ultimately were creating Access databases to popular descriptions from their inventory to work around problems with SEO. I think their ""we will only use it sporadically"" turned into a 5-year journey. Ultimately their final thoughts were about why eBusines was so bad. They most definitely had approached it initially as being an experiment. It is very easy for these web integrations to grow a life of their own.

I agree with @MadelineStefanou . Customers don't consider the true costs of what they are doing, especially with this function. One of those costs is the time spent by employees to maintain that ""small and manual"" solution. That staff could be doing something more relevant to the bottom line to more than offset the WSP investment. Data control and security are other costs that should be considered, and who can really assign a cost to those when they are compromised. IN-SYNCH may be less of an investment, but requires more internal intervention than the WSP ""turnkey"" solution. Then there are those customers that evolve their solution, so they are implementing different solutions. Because these are implemented over a number of years, they don't realize what they have spent. Just start with WSP and it's done. Resources can the be deployed on more important projects.

If anyone asks me about eBusiness manager, I tell them ""I sold it once, and ONLY once"", and send them to Website Pipeline. Finally had one of those that got beyond ""Wow this is great!"" to actually writing WSP a check...

I find that the worst position to make the eCommerce referral is when the customer has already engaged the web developer. Usually they're elbows deep in the implementation and they find that the integration to Sage isn't as easy as they sold it... then there's no shortage of blaming Sage 100 for being an old, outdated, archaic system that doesn't work like any of the two prior ERP systems they've ever integrated.

Fast and simple we suggest Shopify. Custom and integrated Website Pipeline. Web developers dream client Magento.