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About CostumeZone
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www.costumezone.com is the year round costume destination for all seasonal costume needs.
It offer costumes (for children and adults), wigs, hats, make up, decorations, props
and accessories for sale to the general public, for all seasons. Costumezone’s B to
web site is powered by eCart e-commerce software. Due to the heavy traffic and volume
of orders before Halloween, Costumezone needed real time integration capabilities with
its preferred supplier. The integration module allows Costumezone to publish up-to-date
stock and merchandise availability information on its web site, collected from the supplier's
multiple warehouses. Orders received through Costumezone’s web site are automatically placed
with the supplier through a series of HTTP GET and POST requests without any direct access
to the latter's systems databases or compromising any security by means of direct access.
Order tracking information for orders fulfilled by the supplier is immediately posted on
Costumezone’s web site automatically for customers to view. Furthermore, invoices received
from the supplier are parsed and the data is inserted into Costumezone’s database for the
administrator to better manage both the buy- and sell-side operations from the same system.
Robust safety-net features in the integration module immediately warn the admin of any failures,
allowing him to overrule the system and take timely actions. Having a strong supplier integration
module in place, Costumezone decided to take advantage of its technical infrastructure and increase
product visibility by publishing its products on an online catalog web site, CatalogCity.com.
It has an integration module that automatically uploads desired products to
CatalogCity’s server in their required format via FTP at frequent intervals. Orders
received from CatalogCity are unzipped using a dynamically generated password key and
meticulously parsed and inserted into Costumezone’s eCart database after charging the
credit card in real time. As soon as the orders from CatalogCity are placed in eCart,
they are in turn automatically picked up by the supplier's integration module for fulfillment,
thus completing the cycle.
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