Hi,
1) The vendor can manage their products / categories / orders / discounts directly from the front-end.
The management of the shipping methods is not yet finish (but is in our TODO list) but it is possible thanks to the plugin "shipping price per product" to let the vendor set a shipping price for their products (without having to mange the shipping methods).
You can test HikaMarket in order demo website (
demo.hikashop.com/
) using the "demo" account.
HikaMarket is under the menu "other features > hikamarket".
2) There is an option in HikaMarket use "shipping per vendor" ; at this moment HikaMarket will create virtual warehouses for the vendors and the customer will have to choose one shipping method per vendor in his cart.
3) I recommend you to use the "canonical urls" feature of HikaShop ; for more details, please use the HikaShop forum section.
Regards,
Jerome - Obsidev.com
HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team.
Also helping the HikaShop support team when having some time or couldn't sleep.
By the way, do not send me private message, use the "contact us" form instead.