Live Order Status on Website

[Roey]

Pretty general question here, so that I can go off and do some research... I would like to post the order status of customers orders to a website so that they can log in and see when to expect a delivery. Similar to what Dell and Amazon have. My program is currently using Windows forms.

 

Thanks

[stustarz]

Well a website with a backend database, holding order information for your customers, this database would have a table perhaps called orders, in this table just have a field that contains the order status - when an order is recieved, processed or despatched just update the status in the table, allow your visitors to see there orders including the status and there you go!

 

Or was that too simple?

[Roey]

That's the sort of solution that I was thinking about as well... Would my internal Windows forms application and external website share the same database and if so are there any securty issues that I should be aware of?