Hi. I am considering using oscommerce for my partner's business but I require a few changes in the typical flow. I am a software developer and have some experience with MySQL, PHP, Java etc but what I'm really looking for is some guidance with so I can determine if oscommerece is suitable for our needs or whether I should use a different ecommerce product instead.
What we want to do is add a couple of order status values such as "Awaiting approval" and "Approved, ready for processing". So when a customer chooses some goods and submits an order, the order status would go to "Awaiting approval" until such time that somebody approves the order (which will be done when a prescription is received and checked). We would like the ability from an admin logon to tag/mark who has approved the prescription (we will have several admin users).
Can somebody please tell me at a high (or low) level which areas of functionality or code I should be looking into. Is it possible for me to create some code that will hook into a particular area that will do this? Right now I'm looking for a starting point as I'm very new to oscommerce.