E-Commerce solutions for multiple vendors

Hi there,

I been researching E-Commerce turn key solutions (Shopify, Magento, Volusion, etc.) and am not quite finding what I need, or the language on each of their sites is different and as such, difficult to interpret.

I'm looking to build an E-Commerce site where the consumers can purchase items from multiple vendors. So let's say I want to sell T-shirts from 100 different vendors on one site and the consumers can purchase. I would need to have an extranet capability or separate login for the vendors so they can list their items for sale. It needs to have the basics (Shopping Cart, Merch Account, Management Tools, etc.).

Does something like this exist and I'm just missing it...?

Thanks so much for all of your help!

I recently built one and its alot difficult than you might expect check this site it cant handle multiple vendors from multiple shipping locations www.fancy-fixtures.com The name of my company is www.jaredsdirect.com if you need an expert to build it for you.

I wold recommend you CS-Cart Multi-Vendor system, it does exactly what you need and has lots of other features.

We officially resell this platform and offer the lowest possible price for it. You can try CS-Cart Multi-Vendor demo here http://www.alt-team.com/cs-cart-multivendor.html

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I wold recommend you CS-Cart Multi-Vendor system, it does exactly what you need and has lots of other features.

We officially resell this platform and offer the lowest possible price for it. You can try CS-Cart Multi-Vendor demo here http://www.alt-team.com/cs-cart-multivendor.html

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I have to highly disagree -- both Magento and CS-Cart allow you to set “Recently viewed products”, but unlike CS-Cart, Magento also has “Recently Compared Items” feature. Magento has more advanced Reporting Offering including Search Terms Report, Product Reviews Report, Tags Report, Coupon Usage Report, Total Sales Invoiced, Total Sales Refunded and others. Magento is a must-have solution for big serious retailers who want to have an absolutely stable, robust, bug-free platform (or even Multishop platform) with complex shopping possibilities and who have a certain budget to spend on good hosting and customization. I was told by a colleague that there is a mod from a company called www.unirgy.com that provides a multi-vendor system. However, any time you deal with Moda your dealing with licensing especially large ones that deal with multi-vendor and multi-shipping, and dealing with server configuration issues if the client chooses to move to another server farm or data center. The key of providing quality driven customer centric web applications is to build them custom, but unfortunately the this idealism of not reinventing the wheel is ok if your a person with a small limited budget.

The system you recommend can handle multiple vendors but what it cant handle is multiple vendors from multiple locations. Meaning one vendor can only have one place to ship from; my client has vendors that have multiple shipping locations as well and some using the same or different shipping methods. Some low end non-professional might say make seperate vendor accounts for each loacation, but that would assure me that person never did any form of general ledger or bookkeeping. With all the terms our backend supports not to mention handeling all the billing for my client to seperate the account would be a billing nightmare.

According to the requirements described by MyFavFit who started this topic, CS-Cart Multi-Vendor seems to be a good choice and I personally can recommend it coz our company knows and works with this system for a long time.
It is possible for vendors to use different shipping methods in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor. Also CS-Cart Multi-Vendor can be easily customized to meet the necessary requirements.

You can hire someone that do this services like ecommerce web developers. You can find reliable company by searching online.

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I have to highly disagree -- both Magento and CS-Cart allow you to set “Recently viewed products”, but unlike CS-Cart, Magento also has “Recently Compared Items” feature. Magento has more advanced Reporting Offering including Search Terms Report, Product Reviews Report, Tags Report, Coupon Usage Report, Total Sales Invoiced, Total Sales Refunded and others. Magento is a must-have solution for big serious retailers who want to have an absolutely stable, robust, bug-free platform (or even Multishop platform) with complex shopping possibilities and who have a certain budget to spend on good hosting and customization. I was told by a colleague that there is a mod from a company called www.unirgy.com that provides a multi-vendor system. However, any time you deal with Moda your dealing with licensing especially large ones that deal with multi-vendor and multi-shipping, and dealing with server configuration issues if the client chooses to move to another server farm or data center. The key of providing quality driven customer centric web applications is to build them custom, but unfortunately the this idealism of not reinventing the wheel is ok if your a person with a small limited budget.

The system you recommend can handle multiple vendors but what it cant handle is multiple vendors from multiple locations. Meaning one vendor can only have one place to ship from; my client has vendors that have multiple shipping locations as well and some using the same or different shipping methods. Some low end non-professional might say make seperate vendor accounts for each loacation, but that would assure me that person never form of general ledger or bookkeeping. With all the terms our backend supports not to mention handeling all the billing for my client to seperate the account would be a billing nightmare.

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If you want help or need to hire a very skilled team consider www.jaredsdirect.com

I agree. I've had good success with Magento and the resently viewed module works well.

Your requirement is custom (out of the box) . And would require custom development. Don’t even consider achieving it on hosted platforms like bigcommerce, magentogo or Volusion. (hosted platform lack flexibility)
Aprt from it please check on these :
1) Do the vendors have API or data source available which can be listed on your site
2) Many vendors provide csv dumps daily for weekly . If so these can be parsed and inserted in your e-commerce site.

Considerable customization is required for the purpose

I would strongly recommend you OpenCart.com


Prashant Telang

Thanks for sharing an informative post. Have any body tried uniecommerce.com

Yes,I have tried Uniecommerce. Provides the best multi vendor shopping cart. Real time engagement of people with merchants.

As per requirement, Magento is best option for you.

please try elance.com
https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/cat-it...-design-10225/
I did some job with them.
I really liked.
Tks

Magento will be the best, as per your requirements. It's the best for e-commerce websites.

Something like Solid Commerce might actually be able to help you out when it comes to managing multiple vendors on your eCommerce site.

As you continue to grow and scale your operation, Solid Commerce can help you manage things a bit more effectively.

You can take a look at our vendor management functionality and poke around the rest of the site to learn a bit more about what we do: http://solidcommerce.com/solutions/vendors/

We have features that were specifically built out to automate and streamline dealings with multiple vendors, drop shippers, etc.

Our solution was built to basically help you manage all the parts of selling online (inventory, orders, shipping, warehouse, and repricing management) in a single place. On multiple channels, too. So you can sell on Amazon, eBay, other marketplaces like Rakuten and/or Half.com (and others), and/or your own webstore -- without having to juggle a million plates. Solid Commerce keeps everything nice and simple.

You're more than welcome to reach out with a PM or shoot me an email at [email protected] if you want to chat a bit further about how we can help you out with your online selling goals.

Hope this helps!

I will recommend you Daily Deal Builder, you are building your business on a world-class, flexible, technology platform that is built to scale. Whether you are passionate about a specific niche market, or just want to start a daily deal site in your specific geographic location and see how it goes from there… their team can make it happen. and extensive client training, software, and pricing structure combined have made them stand apart from competitors.

Have you looked at Bigcommerce?

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Magento will be the best, as per your requirements. It's the best for e-commerce websites.

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Magento is the best ! I think it has the answer to every e-commerce related issue so better try that out :)

Magento has become known as the best. The open source platform boasts a lot of features and functionalities what you want, allowing online retailers to shape their web business and grow their sale so i would like to prefer Magento.

There are many eCommerce platforms which can provide you multiple vendor selling solution but you should choose the best one. CS-cart and Etsy clone are good solutions for this, Etsy clone provides many other features which are very important for online shop.

Many website owners will incorporate the actual delivery cost within the price of their products so that they are able to offer "free delivery", which can help to stimulate online orders.

Found interesting details with this post. Would also suggest to make use of Ecommercemix multi vendor marketplace solutions which is having features includes UX engineers & architects to make the flow seamless for the user & the management part effortless for the admin & sellers.

Go with magento eCommerce software, it has marketplace Multi-Vendor Module, which lets you convert a pre-existing Magento site into a multi-vendor marketplace.

Source: http://www.openwavecomp.com/magento_...velopment.html

Hi!

I use ChannelApe.com to make this possible. So far, so good. I haven't had any issues and it makes my life a whole lot easier.

Kelsey

This is great!

Visit the 3five blog and read our comparisons between Magento and Shopify, it might help you make your decision when choosing an e-commerce platform.

I am going to build my eCommerce website with the help of some templates for Wordpress from http://*************************/wordpress-themes.php I guess, it is a very good solution as well. What do you guys think about it?

Here are some of the leading e-commerce solutions for various vendors.

Magento

Magento is an open-source platform and offers a scalable e-commerce solution for your online business. It is one of the robust platforms but requires knowledge of coding.

Shopify

Shopify lets you convert your store into a multi-seller marketplace. There is no requirement for coding skills. Even a beginner can set up one with less investment.

Opencart

Opencart is an open-source PHP-based platform. It offers the simplest possible way to set up an online store.

PrestaShop

PrestaShop is also an open-source platform that lets you launch your store quickly. It also offers you a wide range of themes to boost the design process.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is widely used as a WordPress plugin to start the online store. Be it a big or large-sized store, you can customize the design easily with WooCommerce.

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Best eCommerce Multi-Vendor Software platforms:
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor.
Yo! Kart.
Arcadier
BigCommerce
Magento Marketplace
WCFM Marketplace.
Cocorico.

This thread was opened on -> 03-27-2013, 12:35 PM

It really shouldn't be replied to at this point.....