Sage 100

e-Business Manager Since this is still on the current price list, I assume it still works with the current version of Sage 100c. We have a customer who simply wants to take web orders from their customers - a very basic website with no frills due to the primary purpose. The subscription price includes all applets at $600 per year, so it's very economical for this purpose. I'm assuming Sage no longer provides the hosting service for the shopping cart components. The e-Business Manager Hosting Program was offered at $500 per year. We can accomplish this without it, but I was wondering when that may have been discontinued, if it was.

I recall that this was refitted with web services, which could make it better. First, find a customer who actually likes it - i'm skeptical. Insist that your customer consider a 3-yr TCO, and be clear about what he wants and doesn't. product lookups and responsiveness are top two to clarify. I suspect that ROI Consulting can come close to a 3-yr TCO and at the same time offer easy way to expand after customer realizes that their ""no frills"" isn't enough in 2 years. Please post what you find out!

@ToddMartin - Has numerous clients with E-biz. He even supports my lone user....

@ToddMartin I am going to have @MichaelBuscher message you about this, since he's the expert.

I would be more than glad to talk to them. The hosting is at a very reasonable rate and we can provide customization to ebiz as well to make it match their existing site.

@JohnHoyt, EBusiness Manager is by far the easiest way to accomplish what you want, in my view, as long as it is what you say - very simple. It's fast to set up and inexpensive to host. Once it's up and running, maintenance of the data is all done in the Sage 100 system, except to copy item images to the web server, if desired. It is not pretty and there are not very many programmers to call on for modificaitons, should you need them, but I see that Todd has already spoken up, so you're covered there. I'm not sure what additional expenses to expect in a 3-yr TCO that would drive EBM to come close to the higher price of any other option. Once you've paid for the license for EBusiness Manager, you've just got hosting and annual fees to worry about, and those are both pretty reasonable. It's also pretty fast when properly configured and the data shown on the site is truly real time in accuracy. Once it's set up, in my experience, it just runs.