Class Appliance Center - Authorized Appliance Sales, Parts and Service.
The Class Appliance Center website was originally developed on Drupal 5 and Ubercart 1. Class Appliance had an ambitious new project to consume a web service that would provide all of the appliance product data through SOAP instead of having to manually enter it into the site.
We took this opportunity to make the move to Drupal 6 and Ubercart 2. Since most of the products would be automatically created in the new site, we decided to start with a new installation instead of trying to upgrade.
The core functionality of the new site is its custom module that makes a call to a SOAP web service every morning to request data on any new products or existing product changes. Presently there are over 2000 products that have been auto-created in the store.
All product data, including photos, color options, features, promotions, etc are placed into table in the Drupal database. Then the module parses this data into Ubercart products, thereby automatically maintaining the product catalog. Of course the owners can still enter products manually as needed.
Besides the custom product service module, we also developed the Ubercart Taxes Florida Surtax for this site.