Customization of Hika-Shop : Multi-Vendor support

Hi,

I am looking into HikaShop as my base for a project I'm working on. Among other things, I mainly need to implement a "multi-vendor" e-commerce where people can register to the site and sells online on behalf of the website itself. This includes the ability to users to add products from the front-end. This is the rough idea.

Now, I've already analyzed the database schema and quickly parsed the hikashop component to find what I need to work on. It seems this features is already "planned" as the product table already contains a "vendor_id" entry.

My main question is how far is the Hikashop team is willing to support me (and any customization project, for that matter) and, who knows, integrate my modifications into their component.

Otherwise, were these features already planned for Hikashop?

Thank you for your time and great component.

This is nice.

In my case, when a order is completed, it has to be subdivised into mini-orders to each vendor (so if customer X orders items from vendor Y and Z, vendor Y and Z both recieve an order with their respective products).

This also means I have to change the logic concerning the "Status of an order" which is currently global to the order. I have to move the status to the hikashop_order_product table so each vendor can individually mark their product as shipped or not. Depending on what my client needs, might also move that to a new table hikashop_suborder where vendor can mark their part of the order as "shipped" (instead of doing it on a per-product basis).

Also, by looking at the API page, it seems like some key "events" could use a plugin call to unleash the full potential of a component like this, (ie : onAfterProductCreate and so on.) Also, in my case, I'll probably have to implement some crazy coupons mechanics (such as this coupon is only available to products of vendor Y when Product A is purchased with product . So I might try to implement the coupons as joomla plugins (following what has already been done, sometime like hikashopcoupons).


Where would be the best place to keep you in-touch with this customization? This forum?

I think that little plugin like plg_szaki_table_j17_v1.1.zip is good for this.

Hi, I think that there is a lot of people willing to have this feature.

Could you please told us who much will cost the development of these functionality, maybe we can chip in for this.

What do you think?.


Daniel.

I'm eager to see the solution that hikashop team is building.

I made a working multivendor version of hikashop for one of my project, but it involved some nasty hacks and core modification of hikashop (due to how hikashop was made at the time and budget constraint). Good thing to know this will become a core feature!

Have some news about Multi-Vendor support?

Very cool to hear! We have a client who uses HikaShop who is interested in possibly funding an enhancement to JoomLister for eBay to be able to list to multiple eBay Stores, from the multi-vendor setup you're adding. Not sure if the project will go forward, but obviously we'd want to see multi-vendor added to the core before working up a proposed design and estimate.

Thanks for the continuous development.

Great. How will you probably handle the licensing? Will there be an update for hikashop business users free of charge or is it a new edition then?
Any plans there already? Can't wait to have multi vendor integration in hikashop.

Any news about a possible release timeframe for the addon?

with "HikaMarket - Multivendor", may i have a payment directly to the bank account or paypal account of each vendor ?

some news about the dev of "HikaMarket - Multivendor" with "payment directly" to the bank account or paypal account of each vendor ?