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Re: [mv] Special use
****** message to minivend-users from "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com> ******
> I have a potential customer who wants some special features. I'm not
> sure if Minivend supports (or rather easy can support) these -
Yes, this is all doable in minivend. I would highly recommend some sort
of SQL database for this...
> 1. The product base should give different prices to customers.
> This company makes deals with their customers. When the customer logs in
> to the web page, they want to look only at their prices (and maybe also
> only to a selection of products)
I would use standard Web authentication mechanisms, then key into the
products database based on the authenticated username. Just add an
extra search parameter to your query, i.e.
SELECT code from products WHERE description = "Acme Gizmo" AND
CUSTOMER = '[scratch customer]'
> 2. They want a facility to store several email addresses for a customer,
> so the customer can select the one they want to use at that time for the
> receipt.
None of these features are built directly into minivend; they're really
more database issues than anything else. But if you can develop
a database to handle these, then minivend will work with it.
> 3. They want some statistics to see how much each customer buys for.
If you log transactions in a database (which is possible with
minivend), then yes, you could run summary reports with customized
SQL queries.
Chris
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