How difficult is NetSuite ecommerce integration?

In regards to the question about ecommerce integration.

NetSuite does have its own shopping cart and the simplest thing to do would be to use NetSuite's shopping cart, by inserting NetSuite's Add to Cart buttons into their current site. Those buttons would lead the shopper into NetSuite's shopping cart, and their registration and order information would all feed into NetSuite. There are numerous customers which have done this and found it very effective.

That being said, there are also options for external integration as well. NetSuite can integrate with any external eCommerce solution in realtime via Web Services, or batched via CSV or ODBC.

Our customers have done all of these options successfully.

thanks,

Ranga Bodla

I think Ranga hit the nail on the head. Use the WSDK catalog site tags to allow users to register their account and for the shopping cart. If you decide to go with a 3rd party cart, there are a lot integration points you'll want to cover - synchronizing users, sales orders, fulfillments, and possibly returns/credits, etc. It can be a daunting and expensive task. There is also a lot of other built-in functionality in NetSuite that you might want to use - tax calculations, customer center (customer self-support), etc. WSDK or the built-in eCommerce solution is the way to go, IMHO. Other pieces to think about with NetSuite's cart/checkout - tracking abandoned carts and abandoned checkouts works well. You might want to do a solid cost/benefit analysis with defined criteria.