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Will Drupal support complex integration for E-Commerce?
Posted by hpoom on February 8, 2011 at 4:36pm
Thinking ofswap our inhouse created CMS with something more important and Drupal is on top of my menu of possible solutions. I will bestruggling to find out if Drupal support will continue to workthe best wayI want it to though. Can somebody help answer my questions?
1/ Will Drupal support integrationinto a inhouse built API to acquire stock of products and prices. I have seen Drupal E-Commerce solutions but they all seam to have the products and prices loaded into Drupal. I don't want to, and can't load the products into Drupal as the stock and prices come from 3rd parties with 3rd party API's wrapped up behind our own request system which gets various products from back end sysetms and packages them together. We sell shortbreaks, which might be a hotel from one API and a ticket to the theatre from another API. All this stock and pricing is available from a single API Request system we have coded in house however we wantto haveproducts into a CMS/Templating system. Is this possible, and if so how?
2/ I'd personallywant to create pages for services we sell like, hotels and show, but all of the data on they is held in a product data system. I would want pages to automaticly appear as new submissions areadded to this product data system. Therefore a copywriter writes about a new hotel, then I need to have a page to automaticly be made in Drupal that links to the hotel, as well if data is stripped away fromthe product or service data system the I wouldwill need to page to 301 to in other places.
3/ I would moreover want any digital belongings to come from an external digital asset database to ensure hotel images wouldn't be managed in Drupal support but ratheralso come infrom my inhouse digital asset store which works closelywith these product data store.
4/ I am seeking 2 login systems as well. Will need LDAP for in house staff to deal with content, but will need Facebook Connect or Twitter OAuth (or both) to allow for customers to firewood in a leave review articles or see their order history etc.
I want to use the Drupal support system with the intention that we can easily manage copy and static pages as well as add forums, sites etc. It would be a better tool then our existing CMS, but I have big concerns about the E-Commerce component of things. I'dequally want to run a number of sites (about 20) all off one particular Drupal support install making sure that I can take care of the sites quicker. Examples of these sites are in German together with English.
A good example ofa few things iwish togain is http://www.show-and-stay.co.uk/ the booking breaks part is hit when you perform a search form the form. There's no doubt that the Drupal support could well begreat at the homepage and product pages like:
http://www.show-and-stay.co.uk/dirty-dancing.html
And likewise the blog part:
http://www.show-and-stay.co.uk/magazine/
I'veproblemsabout it's power tosupport the booking pages though like:
