Small Business Software

After building WP Shop I realised that this whole venture could grow and hence the title “Small Business Software”.

Take a look at the roadmap but suffice to say that I run a small business and also build websites for small businesses so I am hoping that this plugin will help my small business and benefit others. I am also hoping that the plugin will enable developers to offer more than just websites!

Over to you. Do you have any ideas or suggestions for further implemetations? Comment and suggest please.

The Roadmap
Must haves:
- get WPShop running stable in Wordpress 2.0.x (I’m currently running 2.0.4, and have problems with the installation)
- enable Paypal payment Gateway

Nice to haves:
- WPShop running stable in Wordpress 1.5.x (not tested yet)
- debugging of existing, non-critial bugs
- Reduce number of generated pages

Demarcation criteria (do you know a better word? This is “stuff not to be done right now”)
- prepare plug-in for other payment gateways.
- namespace and incompatibility tests with other than the default plugins of

Wordpress 2.0.4 (akismet, dbbackup and hello dolly)
- include shop urls in url-rewrite procedure (we haven’t talked about this yet, but I’d be very interested to do this. Helps search rankings and makes
urls more readable)
- preparing a wordpress release of the shop as a package.
- Extend the plugin to store customer details.
- Extend the plugin to include the facility to send mailouts.
- Extend the plugin to encompass stock control.
- Extend the plugin to encompass customer/supplier billing and contact details etc.