Hello,
I am just about to start work on a new project and I am interested in hearing some recommendations from the great freeway talk community.
A friend of mine has a bunch of stuff from a now closed store that is sitting in his basement gathering dust. He wants to set up a database in which he can log and categorize all this stuff and then eventually create a website to sell some of it.
I offered to look into solutions that would preferably be straight forward. At first I wanted to use Bento as the database, but it seems that it may not be exportable to an online shopping cart. Then I was considering filemaker pro or some sort of mysql setup, but I feel like that might be quite a learning curve.
Eventually I would like this database to fit into a freeway website of some sort.
Any recommendations?
You might look into a Google Spreadsheet, I believe there’s an API where you can access that data from afar. There’s another one that’s much nicer called DabbleDB. That puts a very shiny skin on a traditional relational database, using a framework called Seaside. I believe they have an API that you could query from a Web application to use the same data in your store. For the data entry side of things, there is nothing I have ever seen that is quite as elegant as Dabble.
I looked through google checkout’s “gadget” and it looks interesting but also fairly limited in its flexibility. My friend is looking to catalog and sell a lot of stuff, and I think there needs to be room for organizing the online shopping cart in a flexible way. Do you know of any slightly more advanced solution that might not be too difficult to learn from scratch.
Thanks,
Brett
Shopify is very nice, not sure about how many hundreds of SKUs you can get without investing in a large account, but that would be the one to really look at closely.