Just getting together the finances side of my new venture, and thought I might throw out the old book and see if there is anything better available.
Currently, as my suit site is bespoke, all the back end is hand written, from pulling in the bank statements, to managing returns and refunds. Its hugely complex now, and I really don't want to go through that build process again.
We were looking at Magento, but Rich who does my programming, is quite keen to build the shopping cart from scratch, as it means he can easily mange cross subdomain logins, and we are only selling a handful of products and a subscription.
But then I get to the bit about refunds, full or partial, invoices, reminder emails for the subscriptions etc, and then the reports of orders, money paid , reconciliation with the bank, units sold etc etc, and cannot help but think this must have been done so many times it should be like falling off a log.
With Quickbooksso I have started looking at
- Secure Trading for taking the cash.
- Quickbooks online for feeding the data to via api.
- Managing all credits (have to feed that data back to the site for refunds ) on Quickbooks
- And then pulling in the bank details automatically to reconcile it all
With SageBut then after talking to sage, who basically told me it could not be done online and I had to download software and run it on the PC, I bought something through Sagepay, so I know there is some online options there.
Has anyone got a simple, integrated system like this working, or is it an unattainable dream, without doing it as a bespoke build?