Thoughts on the feature list

Based on the discussion from Feature List / Database Structure

  1. Back-end Admin
    1. User management (CORE)
    2. Inventory Management
      1. Add/Edit/Delete items in the inventory (CORE)
      2. Image management (CORE)
    3. Data Entry
      1. Bulk price / data updates from forms or files
      2. Bulk item entry from spreadsheets
    4. Reporting (plug-in)
    5. Fulfillment which includes order processing, receiving and shipping
    6. Content management
    7. Marketing (if you want to have email blasts integrated with your system)
    8. Possible retail point of sale
    9. Article / content management
    10. Affiliate management
    11. Data feed management (Froogle, Shopzilla, etc.)
    12. Banner admin (plug-in)
  2. Registration/authentication (CORE)
  3. User Admin (CORE)
  4. Product Catalog
    1. Personalization (for monograms, engraving)
    2. Customizable items (shirt size / color) - This is tough as inventory control says you need to keep count of each style variation. Needs some thought for implementation.
    3. Product comparison (plug-in)
    4. Gift certificates (plug-in)
    5. Coupons (plug-in)
    6. Different image displays for items (lightbox, 360 view, popups or on page, etc) (CORE)
      1. capability of using separate images for thumbnails vs. browser scaling down larger images (CORE)
    7. Robust product search that can make use of verity or real language search or plugins such as the Google appliance.(CORE?) Maybe just a plain search?
    8. Articles about products
    9. Customer product reviews
    10. Audio samples
    11. Downloadable products (CORE)
  5. Shopping Cart
    1. Product up / cross sell
    2. Add/Edit/Delete cart contents (CORE)
    3. Guest Cart (CORE)
    4. Member Cart (CORE)
  6. Checkout System
    1. Ability to handle different tax schemes (CORE)
    2. Purchase orders for credit accounts.
  7. Plug-in development. Provide a way for other authors to easily develop plug-ins
    1. payment gateways (CORE)
    2. shipping methods (CORE)

Here is the feature list for a competitive product http://www.venda.com/page/uksolutions#features