Hi:
We have a request from our most important client to convert their store into a marketplace were vendors will be selling and fulfilling orders. A general outline of their needs are:
- Each vendor will have:
- A descriptive page
- A rating by customer who have ordered their products
- An authorized number of products (by ranges: 0-100, 101-250, etc.) which he can publish and sell
- Vendors will have restricted access to the admin for:
- Checking their orders (only the portion of products provided by them) and updating their status
- Sending PMs to customers for quotes requests and answering requests regarding their orders
- Updating products, images, costs and category/ mapping. This can be done individually and/or imported from Excel tables
- The sotoreowner (our client):
- Will authorize each request to be a vendor and his number of products range
- View all full orders which can consist of products that will be sold and fulfilled by him and others sold and fulfilled by one ore more vendors
- Orders will be paid to the store owner and when vendors deliver their portion should automatically be paid according to the cost they defined for their product
- Price of products by vendors will be equal to the cost plus a % markup defined by store owner
- A feature is needed for massively update % markups by: vendor, manufacturer, category and type of produc
Please inform us when you will have the multi-vendor option and which of the above features will be available. This can mean that we can keep the client in Smartstore or will have to migrate him to another e-commerce platform.