Dynamics GP eCommerce Custom Programming Notes - Alba Spectrum

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 11, 2009 -- Microsoft Dynamics GP, this Corporate ERP application was previously known as Great Plains Dynamics, eEnteprise (and its predecessor was Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows and Mac), is good Accounting and Logistics platform for ecommerce integration. In this paper we assume that you have self designed in-house made custom ecommerce web application with shopping cart and possible such additional features as credit card payment processing, custom B2B items catalogs or simple B2C ecommerce promotions

1. Dynamics GP version and support. Before we jump into your options, please be sure that these options are available to you as if you are on archaic Great Plains version, ecommerce might be very limited in integration and very expensive in design and support. In our opinion, you should consider ecommerce custom website integration to Dynamics GP, if your GP is on currently supported versions: Dynamics GP 10.0 and 9.0 (we are writing these lines in October 2009). The reasoning is also simple - GP eConnect ecommerce programming oriented SDK became matured product in our opinion for Dynamics GP version 9.0.

2. Dynamics GP ecommerce integration tools. The first option, that in our opinion you should check out is Dynamics GP Integration Manager. IM for GP 10.0 has two types of connectors: traditional OLE Server connector (if you are Great Plains consultant, OLE server is what IM was using in older versions: 9.0 and earlier, where you have to initiate integration in the context of targeted company) , and second type is eConnect (here you have to specify company database, windows domain user for econnect credentials, for GP 10.0 you should expect some expected problems, for example SOP Returns are not covered for GP 10.0, however we expect this problem to be patched in the next Dynamics GP version).

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum , help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577 http://www.albaspectrum.com Serving ERP and MRP community since 1994, local service in Chicago, Houston, San Diego, Atlanta, Los Angeles. Information portal: http://www.pegasplanet.com We serve you USA and Canada nationwide from our Dynamics GP and SAP Business One call center: California, Illinois, New York, Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Ontario, Quebec, Washington, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Oregon, New York, New England. International clients welcome from Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, South Africa, UK, Brazil, Caribbean, Russia, Central America: Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, San Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala , South America: Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia