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Working on the sales tax expansion project. I spent a lot of time cascading the source of where the cart line items come from. These are things like: simple searches, advanced searches, view detail pages, my cart favorite buttons, barcode scans, QR code scans, sub inventory, advanced add to cart, recipe/build, etc. The list goes on. We aren't tracking that data in a database yet, but we are starting to gather it up. We are also seeing more ways we can speed things up, standardize things, and make it more efficient. Good stuff. Steve and I and then Calvin and I had different phone calls and online meetings to talk about progress and potential problems and/or issues. Calvin has his stuff going on but we are seeing a bottle neck in one of the processes. He is looking more into that part of the puzzle. I am combing the data, building pages, and doing the updates and cascading the new code around for the project. Steve has been helping with sales, tech support, training, and helping out if and when I have questions. Here are some fun notes from one of the meetings that Steve and I had today. - Start grabbing and storing some of our own data. We have tons of users who use our product on a daily basis. We could really catch and get some great data from our users and how they use the system. This could be things like the item to cart source stuff or other usage habits. Think about stats and data warehousing. Just an idea. On a different note, think of how useful some of that data would be back to our users and/or to their managers or business owners. It could help us improve our own product and/or help a business focus on key components and/or key processes. - Along those same lines, Steve was showing me a Google spreadsheet or Google doc where multiple users were working on the same document in real-time. You could see where they were working and it was kinda fun to watch what they were doing. I mentioned that it might be both fun and scary if you could see what was happening with your full adilas account (world building level) through a visual display of some kind. Steve would love that. He has dreamed of stuff like that for years. Almost a game-like interface where you could see invoices going out, products being purchased, things being sold, checks being made, deposits being made, and employees doing different tasks. Think of the whole world building type concept. It could be both super cool and kinda scary... :) Fun concept and idea. - As we were talking about things, we kept going back to how our current model works. We would love to have enough monies to help and keep our dependables going and being happy. The secret is where the money comes from... is it adilas monies or is is custom or adilas market monies. Some of our guys may have to mix and blend to get what they need. The market is very fertile ground where different parties buy and sell their products and services. That is pretty cool. Think of it as where do you get fed? - One last idea was dealing with the sales tax calculations and how and when they happen. We have a unique problem where some items need a special excise tax. That tax needs to be calculated and collected based off of the original list price vs. off of the ending or final saleprice. The final sale price includes discounts, price changes, specials, etc. Kinda random. Anyways, we will end up adding a new field to the store/location table where all of the tax settings are stored. We will end up adding 13 more setting so that each tax setting (state, county, city, and other 1-10) can use this new setting and/or tax calculation rule. |