Multi-branche websop

-- url of the page with the problem -- : https://www,formidog.nl

Hello HikaPeople

We are trying to find a solution for a multi-shop installation

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Our situation:

We have a hikashop with frozen products.

The main webshop (formidog.nl) has 1200 products

There will be 100 child-webshops (all top-level domains), from our branche stores (magasins de la succursale) all over the country.
These child-webshops show the same products as the main webshop, from the same database.
But each one has its own physical address (f.e. formidogamsterdam.nl, formidogrotterdam.nl, formidogdenhaag.nl). These are no subdomains!

Ordered Products will be distributed to the location from where they originated. They can be pysically picked up by the customers.

On the main site we must be able to see which order belongs to which branche division.
Email communication from the branch division must go to the branch division's mail address AND - as a BCC - to the main company address.

From the user guide of Hika-market MultiVendor we understand that Hikamarket Multi Vendor works the other way around.
HS MV hows the products of multiple vendors in ONE webshop.
These vendors can add their products to the database and the will be shown in one central shop.

We are looking for a solution to sell the same (our) products in multiple webshops (where each webshop has a different owner and address).

We are curious if we have colleagues who have succeeded to build a multi-branch-shopo with Hika

Greetz

Dick

Thanks for your weekend-reply jerome!

I will answer between your lines:

The Goal of HikaMarket is to create a marketplace ; so to have multiple shops in one single website.
One rule in HikaMarket is that, one product is assigned with one vendor.

Yes, I got that one straight after playing around with it.
I misunderstood the description
In its "standard" form Hika market Multi Vendor will not do what we need.
I am not too sad about it as I have learned a lot and most probably have a purpose for it within a few months.

You can't have one product affected to several vendors because if you add that single product into the cart you can't know of which vendor he is buying.
So, if might want to use characteristics/variants in order to have "sub products" and each one can be assigned to one vendor.
Thus the customer could choose from which vendor he want to buy by selecting the according variant.

Afterwards HikaMarket comes with some plugins made for "sales repository".
When a product do not have a vendor assignation, it is possible for a plugin to dynamically assign vendors when the order is created. That assignation can be made thanks to an item custom field or an order custom field.
One side effect of that is, all products without a vendor assignation can be use by that plugin. It would mean that all vendors can sell these products. Another side effect is that the product stock is unique.
In the usage of "sales repository" it's not a problem ; but in your marketplace, I imagine that some vendors won't sell all of the 1200 products.

Well, hmmm.... The fact is: they do! All vendors (or branches) sell from the main stock. The products are delivered to them and the customers pick it up at the vendor's adresses.
Said in a different way: All customers buy from the main stock. In the checkout process they choose at which vendor/address they pick it up.
The vendor gets a commission (or fee) over the products.
He/she is paid for the delivery of the goods.

But it is possible to create a new plugin (based on the existing one) to have a dynamic vendor assignation for your specific rules.
It is possible to imagine that via some product custom field, you can create specific rules for some products to indicate where it can be sold... etc.
Thus, it would be possible to create your marketplace without the need of creating variants for all the vendors.

Everything is possible... or almost?

Regards,

PS : For your HikaShop multi-sites question, the HikaShop support team will reply to your message posted via the "contact us" form. Since it's not related to HikaMarket or the support I provide for HikaMarket, I removed that part from your message.

I am currently digging into it

This could be the anser


In my other mail to you I have asked you 2 questions

(I am getting a bit happier now)

Okay...

please take me by the hand here. I read:

"HikaMarket can use the Vendor zone or the Vendor selector using a item/order custom field. "

This would be great.... is possible.
Then, In my ideal situation I could have this config:

Country Zone -> State Zone -> Vendor Zone
Netlerlands -> Zuid-Holland -> La Haye

However: when configuration zones I cannot see an option for Vendor Zone

What did I miss?

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Edit
I found an older forum post that answered this.
It seams the zone tree is limited to Country -> State

I applied the runaround you suggested

- De-activate all countries
- Changed State-type to Country-type
- Added vendor locations as a state-type
- changed some things in the language-file

works