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Originally Posted by sosidge
Most free sites are based on the osCommerce architecture which is a completely live stock system (if required), over-ordering is impossible.
In-store purchases are slightly more complex, depending on the layout of your shop and the number of customers you have it is harder to track stock, obviously you don't want to take items out of a customers basket because it had been ordered online the night before! However the instances when this will happen are very rare. Look at a shop like Modelsport or Microtech and they basically run a "trade counter" operation.
As you say, correct stock control as it comes in and goes out is fundamental in any business and I'm sure a shop the size of DMS have a strong system in place for that.
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As I mentioned above, we are not just a "trade counter" but a full on shop and this is why this kind of system just is not possibel here at present all of our stock control and stock checking here at DMS is manual, as in our invoicing as anybody who has used us will see.
Also, just how big do you think DMS are, (you make us sound like a Supermarket!! LOL) We are a one shop enterprise with just 5 members of staff (3 are part time, 2 full time) that is it, we are not as BIG as some poeple obviuosly think, we just service a LOT of racers....