For a long time, web shops for SAP Business One tended to play an outsider role. There was an offer from SAP that never came onto the market in Europe and was in any case in a cost range that could be described as "inappropriate" for SMEs, to put it mildly.
However, the picture has changed enormously recently. Now you have a real choice of integrations.
ePages
The first thing to mention here is certainly ePages. Or should we say coresuite. Both!
The aim of the co-operation was probably to give users of SAP Business One the easiest possible access to an eCommerce sales channel. And it has succeeded. With just a few clicks and a little data, you have configured your shop and Business One and you're ready to go.
The webshop is rented from ePages for a monthly fee, which starts at 99.00 Eur and ends at 499.00 Eur.
However, it must of course be said that these are standard shops with a standard design and standard processes.
At the same time, I would also like to see the payment processes considered in a new version. There is still a lot of "manual work" to be done in the backend.
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Conclusion: For a quick entry into the online sales channel, it's certainly great, but not for individualists with high demands on full automation.
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sync4
The colleagues at Dupp Datensysteme GmbH are also taking an interesting approach. With their integration tool sync4, they can dock onto several shop systems at the same time. Including such popular ones as xt:Commerce.
Here, too, the handling appears to be very simple. Additional data is stored in user-defined fields in SAP Business One and can be easily administered.
Shop users are created as Business One business partners and orders are transferred.
However, this is also the end of integration at this point.
You can rent a package from 99.00 EUR per month and also get a template delivered here. However, such templates are available in all colours and shapes on the internet and sometimes even for free.
Conclusion: A quick entry into online trading is also possible here, based on a very popular platform. When real mass business with many transactions "threatens", there is a lot of work in the backend.
WEB EC ONE
The Italian SAP development partner is consistently moving towards integration with SAP Business One. Run Time Solutions with its product WEB EC ONE
Like the product WEB CRM ONE from the same company, the shop utilises existing Business One logic via its Java technology in order to extend it accordingly in the front end.
This means, for example, that price lists from SAP Business One are used or that the documents displayed in the web shop are not synchronised duplicates, but the original documents. Furthermore, the logistics chain has been integrated right through to the end, including invoicing and payment via credit cards in SAP Business One. B2C-shops is possible. Item maintenance and, of course, stock levels all come directly from SAP Business One.
WEB EC ON also provides a tempalte, so you are not completely free in the design options. The price is EUR 9,500.00 as an SAP Business One add-on.
Conclusion: For a quick start, with high demands on integration and performance.
The individual path
Of course, there is still the option of docking other shop systems via an interface. We have had very good experiences with the SAP Business One integration tool b1iSN . With its capabilities, we were able to integrate even large Magento shops via web services with relative ease, taking a fraction of the time it would have taken to programme an interface.
Such a solution is always recommended if large complex solutions are to be realised and the design of the shop also plays a major role.
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