Customer and Vendors login/Registration

Hi,
1- I am trying to find out how to create Customers via administrator.
If I go to 'Customers' and click on the 'Customers' Dropdown. I can't see a new button. Is there a way?

2 - On Hikamarket I can create a new Vendor, but I can't figure out how I can create login credentials for the vendors I am creating.]
Is there a way to automatically create a user for them without having to go to Hikamarket, then go to Joomla Users?
What is the best way?

the reason for this is in this case the customers, will be clients managed by someone in house, no user account creation.
Vendors will be just 'suppliers', they won't really be able to sell. Just manage their products and their account will also be created/managed by someone in house.

Thanks


-- HikaShop version -- : HikaShop Business: 2.3.1
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3
-- HikaMarket Multivendor: 1.4.1

Hi,

HikaShop and HikaMarket are based on the Joomla users. So to create a new HikaShop customer you just have to create a Joomla user.

For HikaMarket, create your vendor account via the Joomla user interface and then when creating the vendor, for the "administrator" option select the desired account.

Hi, Xavier
Thanks for your response.

I activated the 'HikaMarket vendor user group' plugin under hikamarket tab and now users are automatically added the hikamarket when I create them as a joomla user. Perfect, just like I wanted.

The problem is that they are also added as customer in hikashop. In my case, customers are not allowed to add products and vendors are not allowed to shop.

1- I created two user groups (Joomla user manager), supplier (vendors) and customer.
Ho can I limit so that only users added to the 'Supplier' user group will be added to Hikamarket as a Vendo and only users added to the user group 'Customer' will be added to hikashop as a customer.

Thanks.

Hi Jerome,
So, just to clarify. At this stage I don't have how to limit the user group for vendors and a user group for customer? Is that correct.

Also on the documentation link you sent me, it mentions 'HikaMarket registration form'. Where can I find 'HikaMarket registration form'? is it the same as hikashop?

These are the menu types I have for hikamarket, none of which I can see the registration form.
Vendor discount add
Vendor discount listing
Vendor order listing
Vendor product add
Vendor product listing
Vendor Control Panel
Vendor edition
Vendor listing
Vendor page

Where can I find 'HikaMarket registration form'? Or is it the same as hikashop?

Thanks.

Hi Jerome,
Thanks for the heads up on the next release.

I was actually trying to have a form for customers, and a different one for vendors. Vendors would need administrator's approval.

Do you know how could I on the user registration automatically assign the ones that click on a vendor button to a user group 'Vendors'?
And all the others that didn't click that button would be registered normally under the default group 'Customers'.

Something like,
Create an account
[ Customer Account ]
[ Vendor Account ]

If clicked 'Customer Account' would get a customer registration form and would be assigned to a default user group
If clicked 'Vendor Account' would get a vendor registration form and be assigned to a 'vendor user group'

Thanks.

I found a plugin that does that allows user to select their group on joomla's registration, but the plugin doesn't appear under hikas registration. Is there a way to integrate it with hikashop?

Here is the plugin
extensions.joomla.org/component/mtree/ac...authentication/20450

Or maybe the easiest option here would be to be able to display hikashop custom fields on standard joomla registration. Is it possible?

Which one of the options would be easier and possible?

Thanks