Sales Reports

[eradio]

Newbie question here....I am trying to decide on which cart to develope in and one key factor is the backend reporting features/functionality. How does Zen Cart stack up with these features? Is there a 3 rd party module that will expand its functionality?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[econcepts]

What type of reporting features are you specifically looking for? Sales, Visitor Tracking, Products, etc...?

That would help us determine what functionality you are looking for as far as reporting goes.

[eradio]

Typical sales reports that can be sorted by various details like products purchased, region(State), amounts. I want to be able to track Brand A in a specific region...etc Compare brand trends....

[econcepts]

Tracking in various "regions" is not available to my knowledge in any current "sales report" offered by Zen (or third party).

The "Sales report" plugin adds some functionality to the current reporting features of zen, but there is nothing for "regional" breakdown that I know of.

Here is the "Sales Report" third party module you can look into this to see if provides at least some of the data you are looking for. For any other reporting features, you would need custom coding. But it can be done :)

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...products_id=83

[eradio]

Another question...In the admin area, once an order is received, does it show the entire Credit Card number for human processing or refunds if needed?
If not, do you know of a system that does this?

[econcepts]

Another question...In the admin area, once an order is received, does it show the entire Credit Card number for human processing or refunds if needed?
If not, do you know of a system that does this?

You can set (from within the Admin) to save the credit card information to your database (viewable from within the Admin) or not.

So, if you want to be able to see the info for human processing, then you would want to save the information to your db. Yes, it does.