Internet Cash - Great Plains eCommerce - Order Management and Business Portal Notes For Consultant

Let's quickly review what it means to you if you were supporting and implementing old eOrder and now you will have to move your customer to GP Business Portal platform: However it is now hosted in MS Sharepoint and it is part of Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal modules family, order Management module is in essence successor of eOrder. When as part of the upgrade you had to reapply your custom changes to eOrder Asp pages as new version update simply was wiping out old version eOrder pages and placing new version pages on the top, this customization did the job until new version upgrade. And as such could be modified deirectly in its ASP pages, eOrder was written in Interdev as ASP application. You probably remember old good days when eCommerce solution could be built on eOrder module platform, if you are consulting Great Plains Dynamics customers.

Which as similar to old eOrder settings when that work is behind you and you are now expert in setting up Business Portal - then you are pretty much at the point of settings for Order Management, Which potentially saves you software licensing money), as you will have to read BP administrator guide to setup your existing GP users as well as thin Business Portal users (who do not have to be Great Plains users, this is definitely an overhead. Business Portal Setup. 1.

If you remember eOrder catalog management should be reasonably intuitive for you to set it up Which has separate program needed to be installed separate from Business Portal, here cental part is Catalogue manegment. Order Management setup. 2.

If you do not have the idea about eConnect architecture business portal installation problems, but you may expect eConnect and so, this excurse may seem not really informative, Allowing you to create various Great Plains master records and transactions, eConnect is the set of SQL stored procedures. Business Portal and Order Management deploy eConnect in the back side. EConnect stack. 3.

Keeping the main web site at the same old ip address, instead you should consider scenario when you register your business portal Url with your domain registrar. You should not switch to new e-commerce over night, if your website is written in legacy ASP pages. Legacy e-commerce phasing out step by step. 4.