Hand Made Stuff (HMS) is now looking for a way to streamline the business process that they use to allow artisans to make their wares available through the main website. At present, when an Artisan has created something that they're willing to sell, they send an email to someone at the HMS central office, with one or more attached photos if it's something new, sometimes with new photos if it's a new version or set of a previously-offered products. Someone in the HMS central office copies the relevant information into their web system and does a bit of basic setup to make the items available. From there, once a consumer decides that they want to order something an Artisan has made, the order goes through another manual process that involves the HMS central office emailing the Artisan with the order information.
All of these manual processes...