OT: Evaluating an Application

[Jose Lerebours]

On 12/15/19 11:11 AM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> When evaluating an application -in what state-, for what purpose/to what
> end?
>
> It's incredibly hard to give an intelligent answer to a question as vague
> as the one you posted.

Fair enough!

I left it open intentionally hoping that each would possibly offer 
points based on their own perspective/experience and/or particular 
business of interest.

To be more specific,

1) a retail business that does both, store front and back office.
2) single or multiple warehouses (with ability to manage inventory 
movement & location)
3) single or multiple stores (with ability to restrict sale based on 
warehouse designated to a given store)
4) mixed product types with need to sale in multiple units of measure 
(dynamically converted by system)
5) need to track samples sent to prospective customers, designers and 
other retailers
6) ability to have a built in shopping cart or integrate with existing 
via API
7) ability to process credit card payment
8) ability to process Factoring
9) track/manage short and long term projects
10) ability to do partial shipping/billing
11) track job cost
12) track expenses associated to any given project (expense not same as 
cost of goods sold)
13) automatically draw commission for up to three sale persons per job
14) unlimited inventory
15) unlimited users
16) cloud based
17) Account Payable
18) Account Receivable
19) General Ledger
20) Financial Reports (P&L, Balance Sheet, Trial Balance, GL Audit ...)
21) Purchase order
22) Repacking
23) Pick & Pack
24) Freight Tracking / Quoting
25) PO Will Call
26) Sample Management
27) Claim Management
28) Help Desk
29) ... much more ...

You can imagine that these are more of a list of "features" in the 
application not the "need" of a particular business but, given these as 
true features, how valuable are they?  How meaningful can they be when 
evaluating the application if you had a retail/wholesale/distribution 
outfit?

Whatever your business needs, could these be of any use to you? If so, 
how can this be presented or how would you expect it to be presented to 
you (not even sure how to phrase this) ???

If not, how are these overkill or not necessary to a retail, wholesale, 
distribution outfit?

As a side: I am asking this simply because I am in the process of 
preparing marketing material in hope to release an application I have 
been developing for a while now.  I am no sales person and I am known 
for "saying too much"  (lol) and really want to limit the out pour of 
information so that instead of encouraging interest, too much 
information often kills it.



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> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 10:28:16AM -0500, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> When evaluating an application, what are the top 10 questions you ask?
>>
>> If not questions, prerequisites in the form of features or
>> properties that you figure are "must have"!?!
>>
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