Will VirtueMart Work for My Application?

[gpeppers]

The application which will work best for me must be able to handle rapidly-changing  price fluctuations.  I don't know how best to deal with this reality.  The website I need/am trying to develop is like an on-line grocery store (catalog, if you will), which sells bulk food staple ingredient items (wet and dry bulk, fruit and vegetables, spices, herbs, tea blends, etc.) 

A large portion of these prices don't fluctuate that often, but I can see them being a big pain to update.  Merely comparing my wholesale price sheet to that of the shopping cart would be a daunting task.  If there isn't some way to overcome this obstacle, another way around it might be to give shoppers a way to -through a shopping cart- build a list of items they're interested in.  With that information, I could go price them and post the prices of only those items. 

The target audience is very local to me; my immediate neighborhood and a few select people I know around town.  I have wholesale accounts with minimum order requirements, so when someone says to me something like "can you get spaghetti squash and pasta sauce?", I could shop those items and return prices which would be ballpark at worst.  This isn't an ideal situation, but it certainly could be worse.

The perfect solution (?) would be -since I can get the price sheets in excel format- to have a plugin (?) on VirtueMart which would use a macro (or?) to search for a pre-set item and return a value from a document which I would update ~3x/wk.  Then, when anyone wanted to shop my website, they would look up an item and get a price.  That would be slick and easy (on the front end). 

Does anyone have any input as to whether Virtuemart would be a cumbersome way to go about achieving this goal, as messy as it is?

[jenkinhill]

If you already have the data in Excel it is easy to update VirtueMart regularly using csv files with CSVImproved. And very quick after you have done it the first few times...

[jegan]

Hi,
   For your website you can use virtue mart, First you have to study about its entire feature then only its easy to install and develop a website with this component.Virtue Mart is perfect to sell your Goods online and drive your Business to new Heights. Despite being Open Source Software it powers large Online Shops providing the Performance, Usability and Security you expect from professional Software.

[eCabinetStore]

Well answered by jenkinhill, I've done that, even to put the almost the same store to other domain, import export