eCommerce Questions

[thomasjoseph315]

So I am in a world of hurt and need some help. I got a a store I need to be build but my supplier has about 70,000 items with 30,000 more about to enter into market. Atm, they offer drop shipment which is great, but they really don't have a web store, I have to build my own or pay someone else. I've already spoken with 2 companies they recommended. The first one was a joke run by 2 young developers who haven't a clue what they are doing. The second one is legit, but is becoming more of a middle man sucking off my monthly profit. As I am just starting out this isn't something I am looking forward too. Anyway, the idea is I can build my own carting site, but I want to incorporate live availability into the store, stock levels. I am wondering how I can do this. They have b2b store where I order my products from, but I was wondering if I can take lines of code of just the availability levels and inject it into my own store, in this case zen cart. Also, if possible see if there is anyway to set up a data base to install all the products they have available without manually adding them all, what would I need?