Vendor category listing

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Hi,
Relating to this post : www.hikashop.com/forum/2-general-talk-ab...d-delivery-site.html i prefer now begin a new post.

I'm currently testing for this project, for vendor display for my food delivery site project.

I created 2 test vendors, and put products in one of the vendors. I've created a vendor listing menu.
I can see my 2 sellers, but when I click on the seller with products, I don't see the products or categories for that seller.

The goal is as follows:
- To have a filter to display the seller based on a zip code (per forum post linked above).
- Display the selected sellers.
- Click on a seller and get to the seller in question with the seller's subcategories and products, like this example on a competitor site :

www.smood.ch/fr/livraison/stores/lausann...ausanne#promo-burger .

As you can see, I see the seller (restaurant) on this page with its products and subcategories.

For the construction of my site, I will create a parent category "Vendors" => "Vendor type" (restaurant / grocery store, etc) => "Vendor name" => "Vendor categories" (Beef burger menu, Chicken burger menu, etc).

How to have the same type of layout as my example url?

As I understand it, the display of sellers and the display of categories are 2 different things.

I'm a little confused with this, because I need the 2 to be linked and I don't understand how to do it.

Because in fact, as explained, I need to have parent categories that will be the vendors (restaurants or grocery stores) and subcategories by vendors with their products.

So it's easy to create categories and subcategories, but how to display them according to the ZIP.

OK, thank you.

Actually, I don't really need to use the vendor display feature. I need to use it mostly for orders and to differentiate between different partners for deliveries.
Nicolas advised me to use the vendor pages to be able to use the ZIP search. I don't know if it is possible to use the ZIP search to display categories? To display the parent categories of the sellers according to a field (here the ZIP)?

Because I'm going to use only the categories for the sellers. There will be no general categories, only specific categories for each seller.

If not, then I have to go through the seller view. But I could also put a link on the seller page to his parent category in the shop.

You must also understand that the sellers will be managed only by the admin site, not by the sellers themselves (they will only have access to their orders). So by setting the automatic creation of seller categories in the admin, it only adds "standard" categories in the seller category menu? I mean, is it the same if I do it manually or does it create some kind of link?

Or perhaps i can do the inverse, so use only the vendor pages and put the category of vendor with the modules...
Because i see now i can add the module on the vendor page with all the vendor products, sorted by categories. So it will be a nice display for what i want to do.

Hello,
Do you talk about the setting "Link vendor category to vendor page by default" ?
Because this work if i try to go to the category it redirect me to the vendor page.

But sorry, for the inverse, how it should work ? Because i still can go to the vendor page with the module for category. Or i have to change some setting ?

OK.

I will use for now the vendor view with the categories module under the page. It seem to work well, and make the filter with the ZIP codes.
For now, if i can show all the vendor products sorted by categories in the vendor page it is OK.

If i need more dev, i will come back and tell you to see the possibility (i have to check that with my client).

Regards.