Stone Edge Product Manager vs Ecom Assembler

[Jennifer Hornsby]

I am new to Shopsite. I have used Virtual Cart before.... We have Pro v5
and hope Verio will upgrade to 6 soon from what everyone has been
saying.

I love many things about a store called Back Country
http://www.backcountrystore.com and see they use some of Stone Edge's
products in conjunction with Shop Site.

After reading through their online documentation I am still unclear as
to the differences between Product Manager and Ecom Assembler. I am able
to build custom pages on my own in Shop Site (or at least I will be) so
how do these items work together and what sort of business needs Ecom
Assembler?

Thank you!
Jennifer

[Barney Stone]

Jennifer -

The Stone Edge Product Manager for ShopSite lets you manage your ShopSite
Products and Pages off-line, on your own computer. It includes tools that
make it faster and easier to add a lot of data, duplicate similar products
and pages, create cross-sell items and product options, etc. The resulting
data is then uploaded into ShopSite, where it works within the regular
ShopSite structure.

The Stone Edge ECom Assembler creates static web pages outside of ShopSite.
The Add to Cart and Show Cart buttons on those pages use Order Anywhere Tags
to link into the ShopSite cart. The product data comes from a database that
is included with the ECom Assembler. Products can be imported into that
database from ShopSite and/or from most other electronic sources (Access,
Excel, text files, .dbf files, etc.) Since the pages are created outside of
ShopSite, you can have more control over the look-and-feel of the pages. You
can also have a number of user-definable custom fields (Size, Manufacturer,
Brand, whatever you like) that can be included in the product displays. You
can also have things like drop-down lists that display all of the other
groups in the same subcategory or even the results of a SQL select
statement, and other things like that which would be difficult to impossible
to generate with standard ShopSite pages or ShopSite custom templates.

The ECom Assembler was designed for larger stores (5,000 to 50,000 items or
more), and those that require frequent maintenance such as price changes,
inventory changes, seasonal or holiday sales and look-and-feel changes, etc.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to email or give us a call
(yes, we actually enjoy taking phone calls).

- Barney Stone, President
Stone Edge Technologies, Inc.
215-641-1837
www.ECommerceUtilities.com



"Jennifer Hornsby" <jennifer@calbmwtriumph.com> wrote in message
news:3D0FA17F.8A99BDE6@calbmwtriumph.com...

I am new to Shopsite. I have used Virtual Cart before.... We have Pro v5
and hope Verio will upgrade to 6 soon from what everyone has been
saying.

I love many things about a store called Back Country
http://www.backcountrystore.com and see they use some of Stone Edge's
products in conjunction with Shop Site.

After reading through their online documentation I am still unclear as
to the differences between Product Manager and Ecom Assembler. I am able
to build custom pages on my own in Shop Site (or at least I will be) so
how do these items work together and what sort of business needs Ecom
Assembler?

Thank you!
Jennifer

[Switch Hits]

Barney,

You should also probably mention to Jennifer how Product Manager
integrates with Order manager. For one example, it sure makes a
breeze out of inventory control and almost automatic purchase orders
for the 30,000+ skus in my database. One of my products has 480
different skus because of various options. Shop Site can't track each
of those skus though each sku can be readily tracked with Order
Manager and Product Manager.

Jimmy Hilburger
www.switchhits.com


"Barney Stone" <barney@StoneEdge.com> wrote in message
news:aeq31d$8re$1@support.shopsite.com...

Jennifer -

The Stone Edge Product Manager for ShopSite lets you manage your
ShopSite
Products and Pages off-line, on your own computer. It includes tools
that
make it faster and easier to add a lot of data, duplicate similar
products
and pages, create cross-sell items and product options, etc. The
resulting
data is then uploaded into ShopSite, where it works within the
regular
ShopSite structure.

The Stone Edge ECom Assembler creates static web pages outside of
ShopSite.
The Add to Cart and Show Cart buttons on those pages use Order
Anywhere Tags
to link into the ShopSite cart. The product data comes from a
database that
is included with the ECom Assembler. Products can be imported into
that
database from ShopSite and/or from most other electronic sources
(Access,
Excel, text files, .dbf files, etc.) Since the pages are created
outside of
ShopSite, you can have more control over the look-and-feel of the
pages. You
can also have a number of user-definable custom fields (Size,
Manufacturer,
Brand, whatever you like) that can be included in the product
displays. You
can also have things like drop-down lists that display all of the
other
groups in the same subcategory or even the results of a SQL select
statement, and other things like that which would be difficult to
impossible
to generate with standard ShopSite pages or ShopSite custom
templates.

The ECom Assembler was designed for larger stores (5,000 to 50,000
items or
more), and those that require frequent maintenance such as price
changes,
inventory changes, seasonal or holiday sales and look-and-feel
changes, etc.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to email or give
us a call
(yes, we actually enjoy taking phone calls).

- Barney Stone, President
Stone Edge Technologies, Inc.
215-641-1837
www.ECommerceUtilities.com



"Jennifer Hornsby" <jennifer@calbmwtriumph.com> wrote in message
news:3D0FA17F.8A99BDE6@calbmwtriumph.com...
I am new to Shopsite. I have used Virtual Cart before.... We have
Pro v5
and hope Verio will upgrade to 6 soon from what everyone has been
saying.

I love many things about a store called Back Country
http://www.backcountrystore.com and see they use some of Stone
Edge's
products in conjunction with Shop Site.

After reading through their online documentation I am still
unclear as
to the differences between Product Manager and Ecom Assembler. I
am able
to build custom pages on my own in Shop Site (or at least I will
be) so
how do these items work together and what sort of business needs
Ecom
Assembler?

Thank you!
Jennifer

[Jennifer Hornsby]

Thank you for all of the input on this subject. We don't need inventory
management at all as we already have an in-house system that we are forced
to use for our type of business and it is DOS based (if you can believe
it) and cannot generate reports that could be uploaded into shop site
efficiently. Have had programmers look at the task before and it seems
unatainable

I am sure I will have other questions about shop site and Stone Edge
products and appreciate your help

Jennifer