Many firms operating in the e-commerce market already have an accounting system built on the basis of the popular 1C: Enterprise platform. But there are also those who only face the choice of platform for creating an accounting system: this choice will be discussed.
Today, in fact, it has become the standard that the accounting system should be able to integrate with an online store (MI), at a minimum, solving the main tasks:
- synchronization of catalogs and goods (real-time and scheduled)
- product updates (descriptions, prices and balances)
- exports to the accounting system of orders generated in IT with informing customers of the store about changes in order status.
But, at the same time, before starting the operation of the accounting system, it is necessary to perform the initial filling of reference data on nomenclature positions and update prices and balances with IM. So, the accounting system must support, with the help of embedded modules or third-party developments, feedback with the store - i.e. the ability to import data.
After reviewing the list of proposed configurations (for example, on the official website 1C
www.1c.ru/rus/support/release/categ.jsp?GroupID=88 ), it remains to decide which version is suitable for the specifics of your business. Before choosing, we recommend:
- Determine the list of minimum system requirements: what should be in the basic functionality, and what may have to be finalized
- Consult the seller for information.
- Refer to the methodological literature, in sufficient quantity posted on the Internet
Solutions from the company 1C weight, for example:
- If you have a trading company that covers all main areas of economic activity (working with customers and suppliers, contract management, flexible pricing, etc.), the applied solution “1C: Trade Management” will probably be suitable
- Your activity is related to retail outlets - pay attention to "1C: Retail"
- If it is a small firm, but there is a need to maintain trade, warehouse, production accounting, manage finances and cash flows - “1C: Management of a small firm” will do
- There is a specific specificity of activity (for example, production, construction, leasing, etc.) - you can choose one of the industry solutions of 1C.
In addition, when choosing, one should take into account that currently only in the “1C: Trade Management” configuration there is a regular exchange mechanism, and only with online stores based on 1C-Bitrix software products. That is, if you have a third-party store, you may have to contact the developers to implement synchronization of IM with the selected configuration.
Consider the possible choices of the accounting system on the 1C platform, for example, an online store built on the basis of PHPShop.
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The PHPShop online store management system, already included in the
standard delivery , has external independent processing files for synchronization with typical 1C configurations: both version 7.7 and version 8. The relative advantage of the external synchronization file is its independence, which allows to avoid editing 1C source code and removal from support and updates. Suppose that you stopped on the choice of configuration "
1C: Management of a small company ." In this case, you get:
The ability to upload trade offers to the site and transfer their images, with the establishment of flexible conditions for the selection of exported data

The ability to export to the site price lists in xls format

Exchange of customer orders with the formation of invoices for payment, and uploading them to the client’s personal account on the site

The initial unloading of data from the IM to the accounting system, with an indication of the correspondences of the fields of the transport file IM and details in 1C

The exchange is performed either online (at the request of the user), or according to the schedule. In the settings, also, you can specify fixed information information about the details that form the header of the document: organization, type of prices, order status, contractor and others.
There are other options for synchronization of the PHPShop online store with 1C, it all depends on your requirements, which you have defined above. We recommend, having looked at the
list of supported systems on the PHPShop website, to select the desired 1C configuration from the ones already offered in the standard delivery of the online store.