Tools for Managing Accounting, Orders, and Inventory?

Hey There,

I think I saw you on the Amazon forum? This post sounds familiar…I’ll reiterate what I posted there (in case you missed it), and if you did see it…sorry for the duplicate info! Twice is nice, right? (Is that a saying? It should be.)

Ecomdash could be a solution for you. We’re a multichannel inventory management system that syncs with your sales channels and automatically tracks and updates your inventory everywhere you sell. As far as your bullet points, here’s what ecomdash does:
-Multichannel- we integrate with Amazon, Ebay, Magento, and we should be finished testing Etsy sometime in July (meaning it would be ready for public use in August).
-Accounting- You can track basic costs, etc. with our tool (ex: total revenue, product costs, total cost of shipping, etc).
-Orders and Processing- We automatically pull in your sales orders as often as every five minutes, and immediately update your inventory across channels to reflect the purchase. Ecomdash has a shipping function built in to the tool, so you can handle the entire end-to-end process from within our system and create pick lists, packing slips and shipping labels.
-Price- Our monthly subscription starts at 49.99/mo for up to 500 sales orders/mo. No extra fees.
-Easy to Use- We designed our tool for small business owners who don’t have an entire IT Staff behind them, so our tool is intuitive to navigate. We have step-by-step manuals, we get pretty good feedback about how easy it is to use, and our team is available to help - support is always free.
-Customer Service- As a team, we pride ourselves on our rapid response to our customers. If you needed one-on-one help, our product development team can do video conferences to help answer your questions. We never charge for support.

Hope you find what you’re looking for! Happy selling.

Tiana, does Ecomdash work with Wordpress?

Right, this is how it works. Small business solutions will achieve up to 100-200% efficiency gains (Linnworks), mid-size companies (Channel Advisor) are 300-500%, corporate solutions (SAP) are 700-1,000%.

So, at the small business level it is all much of a muchness, the point of multi-channel software is to increase efficiency. The problem is that as the percentages are so much lower - any mistakes reduces the efficiency levels substantially. A 50% drop for a small business can put them out of business - a 50% drop for a corporate is more or less irrelevant.

What do we use - some SAP consultants built a mid-sized solution equivalent to Channel Advisor but with 800-950% efficiency for multi-channel, inventory, product mangement, etc based on SAP business processes. We considered SaaS solutions but have serious issues with 100-200% efficiency gains - Channel Advisor took too long to integrate with what we wanted to do and only went to mid-range. So the small business solutions can work - but you need to be very sure there are few mistakes along the way otherwise what you gain you will lose in another way and net out to zero!

The interesting thing we find is that most do not understand what multi-channel actually is. It is an ERP with ETL connectors joining the parts together for automation and efficiency gains with some BI (analytics) added for good measure. So SAP is effectively the largest platform available - from there it spreads down like a pyramid until you get to the online SaaS solutions.

The whole point is to increase the efficiency so you can process more orders, handle more products, and generate more visitors with the same amount of staff. The simple way is the prettier and more flashy the solution looks the less efficient it will be - have a look at the SAP ECC data entry screens - http://mysap.ericvanberkel.com/SAP01...s/image028.jpg - but that's how you get 1,000% efficiency gains. Some of the tools we use can onboard and auto load a new supplier in 30mins - it's the same as Walmart - the consultants spoke to their platform provider - but they don't really even have a frontend!

So the key question is, how much more can you do with the solution in place. The problem most people face is that the internet is global - you are directly competing with the largest most efficient companies as well as the smallest niche. So at small business levels you really need to drop in the solution and it works - otherwise you start moving in to the least worst scenarios due to the low efficiency gains.

I too am very interested in this, I am currently in the process of building a new Magento site coming from Bigcommerce. Currently I manually enter everything into Quickbooks and just manage my inventory by physically checking it. What is recommended to get automated accounting setup? Should I use a quickbooks-magento integration or should I get a third party software to link everything?

how many sku are you planning to have bigfoot?

We wont be finished the amazon piece until first q 2015