BizReady Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I did lot research, but could not find right answer. I looks like upcoming 1.5 release some multi-shop features but I am not sure how it will fit into my requirements. Need your expert opinion. If not presta, is there any other script could meet my requirements at high-level? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Website – Parent shop (www.myshop.com) There are City based shops (www.myshop.com/LasAngeles, www.myshop.com/Chicago, etc) under parent website. Customers will be directed to their default city page; forwarding to city shop/page should follow similar logic like groupon or livingsocial or craigslist. Merchants will register their account based on city shop/page – they will register their product under shared catalog. Customer shopping experience is same amazon. Customer will look for product to purchases that is offered by multiple merchants within the city. Merchant account management is same as amazon functionality. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizReady Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 With prestashop, can we really direct customers to specific based on their preference? Can we direct them to city based page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Hi BizReady, what you are trying to do is not the main purpose of PS. You can assign different merchants to the different shops and with a little coding you can achieve that people maybe are redirected to their city portal via ip-based geotargeting. From experience I can say that this is not very accurate as for example the last backbone of the provider is maybe 100 km away from the customer. You could calculate the distance to the nearest city but depending on the amount of cities this can be really slow. Here are some examples http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2226489/optimising-a-haversine-formula-sql-call-in-php or read here to get a feeling about what we are talking http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8727717/missing-results-due-to-geo-proximity-formula-store-locator So that is homework for you programmer Problem number 2 is that on a small scale you can achieve that with PS but PS is not an amazon or an ebay clone. Adminstration of hundreds of merchants is not advisalbe and you will very soon run into performance and administration problems. If you need hundreds of cities and merchants it is more clever to come up with a custom solution coded by experts. Best regards, trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizReady Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 Thanks Trip and I appreciate your time to respond in details. Ip based store locating is complex (based links provided), I would think user can select city based on their wish. The site would default to most recent city. I would think it is a cookie based solution like craigslist and may be even groupon. Has anyone implemented cookie based solution? In PS 1.5, do you think that we can assign multiple sellers/vendor/merchants to a shop? If that works, I would think a sort of city based shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizReady Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 In PS 1.5 beta looks like there is no concept of shop-owner or seller. I do see multi shop functionality, but not owner for the shop. Also, I am looking forward to have multi shop members to have access to a shop. Seller should able to see activities on his product orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Hi BizReady, I don't know what you mean by cookie based but another solution might be html5 geolocation. The downside is the user has to allow that feature --> http://html5demos.com/geo As far as I tested you can create a new merchant profile under employies and give them the right permissions. I do not have the 1.5 version at hand at the moment but I am quite positive that every instance of multishop can have an own shop owner, design etc.pp. This should not be a problem on a low/medium scale but if you want to run hundreds of different shops with different merchants it might be difficult to administrate and performance will decrease. Best regards, trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizReady Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 Trip, I was referring to cookie based redirect http://www.webdevforums.com/showthread.php?45268-Page-Redirect-Based-on-Cookie-Value Yes, I played around adding employee as merchant by giving him appropriate permissions. With the current level of permissions, I can not limit sellers's access to just their data. Meaning, I can limit their access to just category and order sections, but I can not limit to show them only their orders. I think custom code development needed to get limit access to next level. But, I am impressed with Presta, a great piece of hard work and kudos to the team. Any idea on how to extend the permissions to next level? Ex: Employee should able to see only certain category of products and its orders. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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