This meeting didn't happen. Cory and I were going to record a video for my cart favorites and the flash buttons. Instead, Sean, Steve, and Cory were talking about sales and the needs to be able to sell in bulk, including items that are not yet in inventory, and still keeping the inventory tight and manageable. That is a challenge. Steve was showing Cory and Sean a demo on his orders homepage (orders is another word or alias for quotes).

If you think of quotes, you may get hung up on the name. If you think of it as a tool and are able to name it whatever... it becomes more clear what is going on. Basically, they have clients who are requesting products and inventory. They want to keep track of the orders and/or virtual requests but don't want them (the orders) to affect inventory until they are ready to be shipped and sent out. There are also all kinds of backorder type needs. A quote, or a non inventory invoice of sorts, is the perfect tool. It just needs a little tweaking and it could be the order process. We could then track the fulfillment of those orders as they become real invoices.

Currently, one quote can have one invoice as a built-in relationship. We are seeing the need to expand and/or extend that relationship from a one-to-one to a one-to-many, meaning one order (quote) could be filled with multiple invoices. The difference between what is ordered and what is fulfilled, becomes the backorders or what is still wanted.

As part of our conversation, we also talked briefly about a possible elevator pitch for sales and marketing. Here is the brief pitch - High-end software as a service (SaaS). Anything dealing with operations and accounting. We use a standard product and then allow for custom on top of that. Click here to see more info on the elevator pitch (30 second intro into adilas.biz).

https://data0.adilas.biz/top_secret/time_web_gallery.cfm?corp=748&id=7089 - elevator pitch for adilas - ideas and concepts