I have been working with many merchants recently who would like to integrate their Point of Sale (POS) or accounting systems with their eCommerce site. This is the holy grail for multi-channel or high volume merchants but in almost every case we discover that they are not ready.
There are are 4 main goals that the merchants hope to achieve by integrating their accounting and other systems with their eCommerce site:
1) Ease of building the catalog
2) Inventory updates...