Finishing up the Store!

This past weekend we worked long hours (past midnight every night) on the technical aspects of the new web store. We (John Armstrong and Nathan Shoultz) spent the weekend in the home of a volunteer, getting the new web store and our current sales and inventory systems to talk to each other. The volunteer is a very technologically gifted man who oversees all of the database administrators for one of the largest credit card / banks in the USA. We were able to put into place tools that will:

• Automatically bring orders from the web store into our systems at HQ’s
• Automatically send all the UPS & FedEx tracking information for those orders back to the web store after they are shipped so customers can track right from the web store
• Automatically update inventory between our HQ’s systems and the web store
• Refining on the look and feel and figuring out how to make adjustments on how it looks

We were also able to start working on the methodology needed to allow leaders of our club churches to have access to club only related products in the web store and tie all that into the new web site management tools we are working on. There is more work needed to complete this, but we have a tentative plan on where we want to go and what we think is needed to get there.