Customizing search, shipping, etc

Hi,

Here is what you can do:

- using HikaMarket Multivendor ( www.hikashop.com/hikamarket-multi-vendor.html ) you can create one vendor for each dealer.
- with the address geocoding shipping plugin ( www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/250...shipping-plugin.html ) you can configure one shipping method for each city (you enter the address and the radius in each shipping method via the menu System>Shipping methods when you create new shipping methods for that geocoding shipping plugin).
Make sure that you activate the "shipping price per product" in your shipping methods.
- then in each product, you'll have a "shipping prices" area where you can block the shipping methods for each product. That way, you can restrict the shipping of products to the cities you want.
- to have the search based on the city, you would have to create a custom product field with the list of cities as values, so that you can select the cities again in each product in that custom field and then you could create a filter based on that custom field (this requires HikaShop Business : www.hikashop.com/extensions/hika-business.html ). That way, on the listings of products the customers will be able to search based on the city.

The only thing left here is the selection of the vendor. You didn't mention anything here but I suspect it will require the development of a plugin of some sort to force the vendor during the checkout.
Should the customer select the vendor (dealer) during the checkout after the list of available vendors has been filtered out based on the available shipping methods (delivery locations) ?
In that case, it would require two things: allowing the vendor to select the shipping methods he wants to support, and displaying the vendor selector on the checkout.

Hi,

So if I read in between the lines of your message, do you mean that only one dealer will service one city ?

With only the Business edition, I don't think that you can do that unless you do quite a bit of coding.
But even with HikaMarket Mutlivendor, it will require some coding (but a lot less as you already have the "dealer" entity with the sending of the nofitications, etc)

Hi,

Well, what I would do to do it properly is to create three new tables:
- a "location" table, where you can enter the locations you want to be delivered.
- a "location_vendor" table where you can have basically two columns : a location_id pointing to an entry in your location table and a "vendor_id" pointing to a vendor in the hikamarket_vendor table.
- a product_vendor" table so that you can link vendors to products with two columns: a product_id column pointing to an entry in the hikashop_product table and a vendor_id column pointing to a vendor in the hikamarket_vendor table.

Then, you can develop the plugin.
If you're not familiar with Joomla plugins development, you first want to check:
docs.joomla.org/Portal:Plugin_Development
Then, I would recommend to check the plugins/hikashop/email_history/ folder of your website. That's the "email history" plugin of HikaShop, which adds everything you can find under the Customers>Email history menu in your HikaShop backend.
Using that plugin as a reference, and the developer documentation we have ( www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/6...r-documentation.html ), you can first add the interface in the backend to see a listing of locations, create new locations, delete and edit them.
Then, you can create the interface on the product edition page to add the link to the vendors. You can do so implementing the onProductBlocksDisplay event to add your HTML, and the onAfterProductCreate and onAfterProductUpdate triggers to save the data in the database.
You can also create the interface on the vendor edition page to add the link to the locations. You'll have a onAfterVendorCreate and onAfterVendorUpdate triggers for the saving, and for adding the HTML, I would recommend to directly add it as a view override:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/1...-display.html#layout
Then, you can develop a joomla module to add a dropdown for the selection of the location and use the onBeforeProductListingLoad event to filter out the products based on that selection.
And finally, you want the select the vendor based on the location of the products in the cart. You can do that with the event onBeforeProductsVendorAttribution :
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/1...ctsVendorAttribution
Once the vendor is assigned to the cart thanks to that trigger, HikaMarket will automatically notify the vendor for the order. And you can setup the payment methods in each vendor so that the payment will go to the vendor automatically.