user data attached to login number

[jgstyle]

I'm not sure if this post belongs here exactly.

I'm working on a business to business site where our client wants their customers to all register, and then have their own customer number.

When they register, they should be assigned a customer number. At which point they will be able to go through and input the criteria for the job they are submitting. A quote will be generated from this with it's own number.

Our client would like the info from those quotes to be saved from each customer number, then their customers could re-order by inputting that quote's number.

I've tried looking through some of the ecommerce apps on hotscripts and other places, but I'm not sure if they need a full-fledged e-commerce backend. No money is processed on the site. However, it seemed that the saving of previous quotes was kind of "shopping-cart" like so I tried that .

Do anyone have any ideas on how best to proceed. The server they are hosting on is a windows server running ASP. Thanks for any help!

-john

[minnapple]

Often it is hard to impossible to find an off the self product for such applications.

Sounds like you need some custom asp or php programming.
The quoting system could be on a seperate server so don't limit the programming to the box.

I have had similiar programs written for clients, the costs ranged from less than a thousand dollars to 5 figures depending on the level of interactively and complexivity.

[arquan]

As mentioned, it is difficult to find an off the shelf product for something like this. It's too customized for each situation. We too have written aps like this, and here is what the value proposition for the customer was... They have customers they want to do recurring quotes for. So, the system is capable of letting the administrators build 'typical quote templates' that they can then turn into a real quote just by selecting the customer, and the applicable quote template. They can also add one-off ad hoc items to each quote along with the price of the activity. It is then turned into a PDF document and emailed to the customer on the fly. It's really slick, and they have sent thousands of quotes in the time it used to take them to do relatively few quotes. The best concept here is the 'quote templates' that they can turn into real quotes and deliver on the fly in a snap.

I know your scenario is a bit different, but the concept of re-usable templates could be used it sounds to make the system quite efficient.

[jgstyle]

Thanks, guys. I guess that's what I needed to know. I'll just have to find out from the customer how important it is for them to have this functionality, and how much they are willing to pay to get something specific to their needs.

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some really obvious tool that could do the job. Thanks again.