Web Integrator vs Yahoo Store Emulation

How did you configure StoreOps to download the orders? I have been trying to get that to work. I can't seem to get the RMSNet configuration tab to show up, even though I have enabled the service under the General Options. I have been trying to manually update them in the registry, but so far have had no luck. The custom programming would not be a problem as I am a developer. I would like to hear more about how your inventory custom coding if you don't mind.

Scott

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I am interested in the custom system to handle inventory on Yahoo. I have a Yahoo store and RMS. Would you be able to share any info? Thanks, Butch

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I don't use RMSNet for anything and I don't have a store on Yahoo. Had tried unsuccessfully to use RMSNet for a long time before finally figuring out my solution. I use an FTP process to automatically check for and download a file that gets generated on my web server whenever an order gets placed. I have a Linux web server on which I wrote a script to generate an XML file whenever an order is placed. I use a cron job to check for new orders every few minutes. There is a sample YahooStore XML file in the Exchange table of the sample database that comes with RMS. If you connect to that sample database and hit (the "Internet Order") button you will see an entry there and test how internet orders get loaded into the POS by cashiers. You can extract that entry from the Exchange table and use it as the model to generate XML files. I wrote an awk program on my webserver to parse the data that gets extracted from my database on the web server and put it into an XML file. Then you need to write a batch file on your pc which can load the XML files into the Exchange table whenever an order is downloaded by FTP.

I don't have a Yahoo store and I actually doubt that my system would work on Yahoo stores unless you can have direct access to the database there. Either that or Yahoo must offer some kind of system for importing inventory data automatically. For my system I wrote a sql script that gets executed from a batch file on my pc that extracts inventory values from my RMS database. I then have an FTP process which automatically uploads that data file to my web server. And finally I have a script that runs on my webserver which automatically loads the inventory data into my web store database.

The term YahooStore refers to the format of the XML file that is used to load data for internet orders into the Exchange table of RMS. I don't know the genesis of that XML format but it seems like it is some kind of standard.