New eCommerce company needs to have a custom website developed.

Business Overview:
The purpose of this site is to sell school supplies to consumers. This will be done by creating partnerships with schools. Each partner school will have a "school admin". The school admin will login to the site and create "teacher" accounts for their school. Teachers will be able to login to the site and create required supply list(s) for their students. Students will then login, find their teacher's list and purchase the list. Purchases will be completed on our site and paid via merchant account. Orders will be electronically tansmitted to our supplier for fulfillment. Confirmation emails will be sent to customer.

Below is an overview of the business process.

-School Supply Outfitters will contact schools (offline) and enter into a partnership
-Schools will internally identify a "School Admin" individual
-The "School Admin" will visit the site and complete the signup form - including entering their email address
-Upon completion of the signup form, the site will create a school admin account and send a confirmation email to the School Admin
-School Admins will login to the site and create "Teacher" accounts for their school and setup a list of classes at their school. Then, they will indicate which teacher is teaching each class. Teachers may teach multiple classes, but there may not be more than 1 teacher per class
-As each teacher is entered in the previous step, the site will create a "Teacher" account and send a confirmation email to the teacher.
-Teachers will login to the site and be able to create 1 or more supply lists for each of their classes. Typically there would only be 1 supply list per class. Teachers create their list by browsing the product catalog and selecting "Add to List" (instead of add to cart). When adding items to the list, teachers select a desired quantity and have the option to make the item required or recommended, and add a line item note.
-Parents will visit the site and select their school > teacher > supply list. They will then add all or some supply list items to their cart with a single click. In addition to the supply list, parents can also browse the catalog and add other items to their cart before checkout. They will then checkout and pay for their items. For convenience, parents can save schools to a list of "My Schools" so they do not have to search for their school on each visit to the site. Parents are sometimes referred to as "Retail Customers" throughout this mockup and specification
-The site will transmit completed orders (shipping info and line items) to our supplier for shipment. This may be real-time or daily

There will be 4 classes of users. Users may have multiple roles:
-Site Admin - setup and maintain accounts (schools) and product catalog
-School Admins - setup and maintain class listing and Teacher accounts. A single school admin account may oversee multiple schools
-Teachers - create and maintain supply lists. Teachers may also have School Admin rights.
-Parents - retail customer. Can browse catalog, schools, and lists. All user types also have the capabilities of Parents


General requirements:
-Typical ecommerce funcationality should be included (coupons, catalog admin, searching, filtering, multi-level categories, etc.)
-Multi-level user login ability (site admin, school admin, teacher, retail customer), users may belong to multiple groups (i.e., school admin AND teacher)
-Site interface should make use of latest technology (Ajax, etc.)
-We will need a data exchange interface to our supplier (iteminfo.com) to retrieve listing of product details
-We need an automatic export mechanism to transmit orders to our supplier (specification available, may be real-time or daily)
-Credit cards will be processed through our merchant account
-Will need security to protect user data
-Ability to view admin reports and download sales transaction data (csv format)
-Open source cart software may be used, but will require heavy modification
-Google analytics will be used for stats

html mockup of site functionality - http://schoolsupplyoutfitters.com/mockup/Index.htm (please review this mockup prior to bidding)
website test plan - linked from mockup home page

Project details:
-Understand detailed requirements (we currently have a detailed html mockup showing how the site should work and a website test plan)
-Develop site graphical elements (site layout/look and feel has already been completed in photoshop)
-Develop entire site frontend and backend (including database/catalog population - electronic product info is available to populate catalog)
-Test site
-Install and test site on my host
-Perform final acceptance testing
-Provide ongoing technical support to ensure site is working properly
-I will retain rights to the code
-Your bid should be a fixed price bid
-There will potentially be future work as we make additions to the site

Bid details:
Your bid should include:
-Samples of prior work
-Technologies you plan to use
-Cost estimate for entire project
-Payment terms
-Time required to complete entire project
-Support you will offer after project is completed

Bids will be evaluated based primarily on quality of prior work (your rating) and cost. A winning bidder is expected to be selected by the end of November to begin work immediately.

Please use project message board for questions. Thank you.My supplier uses web services for product meta data. Our site will need to interface with these web services to populate our product catalog on the fly (based on user category or search query). Retail pricing will be stored on our site, so web services results will have to be matched to our internal pricing file to display retail pricing along with product info. What this means is that no internal "product catalog" will have to be maintained. Simply a pricing file and a web services interface to retrieve products.