Sumit Verma talks about “Slatwall ColdFusion eCommerce Unleashed (Beyond Shopping Carts)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.
Contents
- Show notes
- What is Slatwall
- Why use an eCommerce platform
- New features available in Slatwall:
- Sites using Slatwall
- Why are you proud to use CF?
- WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
- What are you looking forward to at MuraCon?
- Mentioned in this episode
- His MuraCon session Description:
- Listen to the Audio
- Bio
- Links
- Interview transcript
Show notes
What is Slatwall
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- Enterprise level eCommerce platform
- More than just a shopping cart
- A flexible way to build eCommerce websites that integrates easily with other software for payments, marketing, sales, shipping etc
- Easy to customize for your individual business processes
- In summary, you could create your own Amazon.com clone. But add on subscriptions, events, reviews.
- “The headless commerce” – all the backend of eCommerce
Why use an eCommerce platform
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- Saves a lot time over custom coding
- More flexible than a shopping cart
- Security
- PCI compliant
- PA-DSS certified
- GDPR
- Reliability
- SaaS, hosted on AWS
- SLA and support
- Auto-scaling
- Monitoring
Investment
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- Free Open source for self-hosting
- Full service SaaS ad$1500-5000/mo depending on level
Features
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- Total customization
- MVC
- Event-driven architecture
- Integrations architecture
- Collections – Custom data lists
- Workflows
- Templates (eg email)
- Cart abandon email
- Inventory notifications
- Call any service methods
- Automation
- Events
- Reports
- REST API
- Product catalog
- Subscriptions
- Tickets
- Digital content
- Product reviews
- Taxes and shipping
- Order management
- Customer management
- Inventory management
- Promotions
- Total customization
Technology
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- CFML Server: Coldfusion 10+, Railo 4.0.1.003+, Lucee 4.5+
- Database Engine: MySQL, Microsoft SQL or Oracle
- Hibernate ORM
- Operating System: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
- REST API
Integrations
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- Mura plugin, other CMSs
- Payment processing – Stripe, Payflowpro, Authorize.net
- Shipping – FedEx, UPS
- ERP – SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Netsuite, Micros (SaaS version)
- Marketing – Marketo, Hubspot, Eloqua, Salesforce
New features available in Slatwall:
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- Collections
- Pick, Pack, Ship
- Accounting and Inventory Enhancements
- QuickBooks Online
- Other accounting interactions and exports
- Point of Sale
- Star Micronics m-pop with iPad
Sites using Slatwall
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- 400+ developers using Slatwall
- solve very complex eCommerce requirements while maintaining their legacy platforms.
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- CalPIA
- TotalWine
- Sotheby's
- Inc Magazine
- Scientific American
- FastCompany magazine
Why are you proud to use CF?
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- RAD
- Fast to get up to speed – cross training developers from other languages
- Clean, concise code
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
What are you looking forward to at MuraCon?
Mentioned in this episode
His MuraCon session Description:
Topic – Slatwall: eCommerce Unleashed
We take a closer look at some new Slatwall Projects that launched in 2017. Learn how these businesses leveraged the flexibility of the Slatwall platform to solve very complex eCommerce requirements while maintaining their legacy platforms.
- CalPIA
- TotalWine
- Sotheby's
As we review these projects we will also highlight new features available in Slatwall:
- Collections
- Pick, Pack, Ship
- Accounting and Inventory Enhancements
- Point of Sale
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Bio
Sumit Verma
Sumit brings over 15 years of RIA, web development and technology management expertise to ten24. He is directly responsible for overseeing the development process for each project and managing ten24's technical infrastructure. Sumit has successfully implemented projects calling on his diverse skills that involve: E-Commerce Applications, ERP Applications, CRM Applications, Client/Server Solutions, System Analysis & Architecture, Database Designing and Administration, for clients such as Working Advantage, Pongo Resume, Stonyfield Farms and White’s Nursery.
Sumit also brings knowledge of core programming languages including: C, C++, COBOL, ColdFusion, Flex, PeopleSoft (Financials, HRMS), CRM (Siebel), Client / Server Solutions (Visual Basic) and Databases (Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL) using OOAD methodologies and modeling tools (Convoy DM, Rational).
Links
Interview transcript
Michaela 0:01
Welcome back to the show. Today we're looking at snap wall cold fusion e commerce platform and how it unleashes you beyond the shopping cart and I'm here with summit Burma nearly made a mango of your name there. So it is.
And he, he's talking at Mira con in a few weeks. And we will look at what slap wall is, and why you want to use an e commerce platform. And we'll look at some of the amazing features inside that wall, including total order, customer management, inventory management, promotions, automation workflows, customer data lists, or a lot of integrations with other software for marketing, shipping
charging, the credit card mirror, of course, integrates with and we'll hear about some of the new features in slab wall. So welcome summit.
Sumit Verma 1:00
Thanks, Michael, for having me on the show. Glad to be here.
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