Oliver_Henniges - 12:32 pm on Dec 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

We're relatively small, so our internal warehouse-management is running on our local computers, whereas our website is hosted on a managed server. This is the only reason why I cannot provide availability-information about our products for our internet-customers.

Except this one issue, we normally do everything ergophobe mentions.

We still do some local sales, so to synchronize availability data between our website and our local network would require quite an intensive data-transfer between both, which raises a number of security-issues.

This is just a side-note, but I guess many of you are -or have been- faced with a similar problem. If so, how did you overcome it below the level of a static, public IP for your own computers?

The most common "Whow"-effect, I could filter from customer-feedback, was that of quick delivery. Anything below 24 hours makes customers raise eyebrows.