dm - I hope this answer addresses some of your concerns. I must admit, that is a long posting for your first posting on the forums. I hope that if you do have specific questions about Actinic that you would feel free to post again and the guys here will see if they can help you.
Actinic is designed as an ecommerce solution that contains lots of features for putting a store onto the Internet. The vast majority of our customers are not interested in the structure of the database because they want to use the user interface for adding products/choices/sections/components etc into the store. Because of the nature of our target market, a decent user interface is our priority, rather than making all the 'under-the-hood' functionality transparent to understand. At some point in the future, we may well do that, but you are right when you say that it is not a current priority with us.
Because of the sophistication of the Actinic funtionality, it does not have a simple easy-to-understand database structure - because the features within Actinic are not simple.
There are some things, however, which may help you.
1) We do have a database schema we can send you - but it is an internal document so does not look very 'friendly' - but it will contain all the information you need.
2) Actinic Business has the ability to link all its product fields to an external database. You can map the fields in your own Access/Excel db to Actinic and then control your products from this external data source.
3) We have got an interface in Quickbooks which will bring all your products and customers into Actinic from Quicbooks, and transfer order data from Actinic into Quickbooks - raising sales receipts/invoices as required.
Actinic is designed as an ecommerce solution that contains lots of features for putting a store onto the Internet. The vast majority of our customers are not interested in the structure of the database because they want to use the user interface for adding products/choices/sections/components etc into the store. Because of the nature of our target market, a decent user interface is our priority, rather than making all the 'under-the-hood' functionality transparent to understand. At some point in the future, we may well do that, but you are right when you say that it is not a current priority with us.
Because of the sophistication of the Actinic funtionality, it does not have a simple easy-to-understand database structure - because the features within Actinic are not simple.
There are some things, however, which may help you.
1) We do have a database schema we can send you - but it is an internal document so does not look very 'friendly' - but it will contain all the information you need.
2) Actinic Business has the ability to link all its product fields to an external database. You can map the fields in your own Access/Excel db to Actinic and then control your products from this external data source.
3) We have got an interface in Quickbooks which will bring all your products and customers into Actinic from Quicbooks, and transfer order data from Actinic into Quickbooks - raising sales receipts/invoices as required.
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