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Hey jeyjoo,

 

Yes, this is a function that we will have for the 1.5 version.

 

Great thanks Benjamin.

Will it be possible to specify a "shop" type (for example shoe shop and food shop) and have different layout per shop (using say a different CSS prefix for each shop type).

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Great thanks Benjamin.

Will it be possible to specify a "shop" type (for example shoe shop and food shop) and have different layout per shop (using say a different CSS prefix for each shop type).

Hi Benjamin, do you have an answer to this? Thanks

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Hey jeyjoo. In the upcoming MultiStore option, you will have the opportunity to have difference CSS layouts for each shop type that will be managed from one backoffice. -Benjamin

 

Great.

But just want to check we are taking about the same thing.

I woud like 1 website, with say 100 different different businesses logging on to sell their own products, with their own front office/catalogue and profile management.

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Front-office - each shop can have a private logon to manage their own products

I see You need something more specific, than usual web-shop. You looking for a marketplace solution, so I guess it should be much different from PrestaShop architecture.

 

In the PS1.5.0.15 I didn't find a feachure such "Each seller has their own logon and own catalogue to manage". Actually there are some ways to do such feature, referring seller's account to dedicated catalog, referring to own products in a common catalog, etc...

then tracking purchases for each seller, etc... it's require to duplicate a most piece of code, that's why it's better to do from scratch using low-level php framework.

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the meaning of MultiStore in RC1 is not the meaning of a total entire mall,but many shops seprated!

 

each shop is separated,don't have a mall interface to integrate them.

 

I think, we really needed is a mall ,with multi shop support

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I see You need something more specific, than usual web-shop. You looking for a marketplace solution, so I guess it should be much different from PrestaShop architecture.

 

In the PS1.5.0.15 I didn't find a feachure such "Each seller has their own logon and own catalogue to manage". Actually there are some ways to do such feature, referring seller's account to dedicated catalog, referring to own products in a common catalog, etc...

then tracking purchases for each seller, etc... it's require to duplicate a most piece of code, that's why it's better to do from scratch using low-level php framework.

That is what I was thinking Nick. I dont think that this is possible with PS 1.5.

Have you any idea how this can be done with PS, or what package I could use?

Thanks

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I still newbie in PrestaShop and spent some time on examination since my last post here.

I suggest following scenario:

- use Multistore feature

- provide a sub-domain for each Office - actually it's a VirtualStore, say socks.supermall.com

- set up a permissions for each user on each VirtualStore

- set up a sub-category as Root Category on each VirtualStore

- set up a common web-store for marketplace (mall), say www.supermall.com

 

Each site can operate separately from sub-domain and all products should ne accessible from www.

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Welcome to Prestashop!

You scenario sounds possible, though I have the following concerns with this approach:

  • There may be 100's of stores, so new subdomain/ new store creation would have to be automated
  • Some stores may only have 2-3 products, and with 100's of shops, it would be essential to use/call the same underlying PS code/software when generating each shop
  • The "latest products", "categories", "best sellers" e.t.c. would have to consider all shops. So on home page, "latest products" would have to bring in products from all subdomains.

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Those are some very valid concerns. I will see what kind of information I can pry from some of the developers about theses. I know that one back office can manage multiple domains. Each vendor can have their own logon and own catalog to manage.

Actually a colleague just pointed me at a valid extension for Jooomla 1.4 that may well provide this multi-store functionality

http://www.etiendas.co/en/etiendas-prestashop-modules/27-prestashop-multishop-mulltidomain.html

It looks pretty powerful

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hello, I tested the multi shop 1.5 RC1 and it start working. You can have different URL different design for each shop. Each shop can have their own product with their own price or curency.

 

The things I could n't do is featured product all shop had the same.

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hello, I tested the multi shop 1.5 RC1 and it start working. You can have different URL different design for each shop. Each shop can have their own product with their own price or curency. The things I could n't do is featured product all shop had the same.

 

There are two different definitions of "multishop" floating around here:

  1. PS 1.5 multishop - manage multiple stores from 1 backoffice
  2. Market place (ebay style) - which is what I require

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Hi Benjamin,

 

You seam to missed my question,and tomergs also.

There is module Agile multiple seller

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/104232-module-agile-multiple-sellersvendors-module-for-prestashop-14/

and in its description it says

Agile Multiple Seller is a PrestaShop module that enable multiple sellers/vendors shares one PrestaShop store/shop. It is a best solution to to create your own market place like eBay, Amazon....

 

Thanks

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Dear TheCoffee, Just wondering, do you know of any MarketPlace modules that are available for PrestaShop. That seems like a very advanced functionality. hmm Curious, that would be fun though!

It seems like a mod that would benefit Prestashop. Creating a market place is far more powerful than a stand alone shop - it opens up a world of possibilities. So far I have come across the two mods mentioned in this thread:

I will be trying both over the next 2 months, so will let you know how that goes!

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Thanks TheCoffee, this will definitely be looked at to create a mod. I think that having a mod for a market place is definitely a good idea. It's good that we have community mods available but definitely we should look into create our own module. How are those community mods? are they a favorable option for that market place capability?

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Thanks TheCoffee, this will definitely be looked at to create a mod. I think that having a mod for a market place is definitely a good idea. It's good that we have community mods available but definitely we should look into create our own module. How are those community mods? are they a favorable option for that market place capability?

I havent used them yet, though will over the next month or two.

The draw back so far seems to be payments. Currently you can either:

  • Charge each vendor a monthly fee
  • Or charge commission per sale (and commissions can be set on a per vendior basis)

But you cannot do a combination of both i.e. where some vendors have a flat monthly fee and others have a commission system.

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Here is my understanding:

The PrestaShop multi-store/multi-shop is based on business model of one owner - multiple stores.

It does not for multiple owners and multiple business.

 

 

My Agile Multiple Seller modules for PrestaShop 1.4 is based business model: multiple owner - One store

 

For PrestaShop 1.5, we are extending our modules to support business model: multiple owner - multiple store

 

We also have some accessory modules to support this business module, like Agile Paypal adaptive payment (Parallel payment).

You can find more detail of the module for PrestaShop 1.4 in the forum here.

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/104232-module-agile-multiple-sellersvendors-module-for-prestashop-14/

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Hi - Reg. marketplace!

As I see it, 1.5 is so far concerned about one owner / many shops or many owners / many shops.

The marketplace function -

One shop, (one main-owner/manager) / many sellers / many buyers

seems not to have been in mind.

However, this should not be a big task to create.

I´m sure that this "E-bay lie" concepts would appeal to a broad audience.

Of course something could be put together as it is now, by ordinary users, but there are a few vital things that needs to be changed.

Creating your user profile, must be ease, (no problem here) but especially creating a product must be a simple task.

They will not need all the features a viable now. Just like E-bay. few clicks and the product is on.

Also.. showing geographic distance between seller and buyer should be an easy option.

I´m sure some add-on skilled people are working on this concept ??

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My next version of Agile Multiple Seller/Vendor module (which is under development) will implement the eBay like concept.

 

Sellers can list his/her products on main store.

Sellers can also open eBay store with multi-store multi-shop function of PrestaShop.

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