The catalogue: one stone record, everywhere
A stone is added and changed in one place. Its names, variants, facts and photographs reach the website, the store, quotes, purchase orders, stock and documents from there. Companion to CATALOGUE.md; the phone screens are in ui-shell-mockup.html.
1. Where the record goes
Live places follow the record. Issued papers keep what they were issued with.
Follow the record
Stone record
identity · names · variants · facts · photographs · suppliers · prices · state
Fixed once issued
Staff only
2. What a stone record holds
The description that travels with every name
The European naming standard (EN 12440) requires four things together, because "the same name is used to denominate different stones". Oman's consumer law requires an accurate product name and country of origin.
Sahara Beigethe name
limestonewhat the rock is
beigetypical colour
Omanwhere it is from
3. Seven kinds of name, and how far each may travel
● yes if with a condition never blocked by the system, not by care
4. The customer keeps their name for the stone: try it
A visitor who asks for "Omani Beige" gets Omani Beige: a page under that name, a sample, a quote and papers under that name. Nothing is explained to them. Only staff see which of our stones it is. Search engines are pointed to one page per stone, so the names never compete or look like copies.
Describe a name
5. What is actually sold: a variant
Prices, codes, weights and samples belong to the variant. A quote never types them.