I am looking for advice on choosing a shopping cart program that will allow multiple vendors to set up their own store on one central site - and then allow a visitor to buy from any one of them (or multiple vendors) and pay only one bill at checkout. So a visitor may cruise the site and find something in one store they like - add it to the shopping cart, and then go into another store and find something - add it to the shopping cart - and then go to checkout. The system would also need to be able to merge products from various vendors and show them at random within different categories - such as a specific category of autoparts like brakes parts that may only be available from one vendor/mfg or another. The overall goal is to make it easier for the visitor to buy products on the site so they don't have to buy from one store then repeat the process and buy from another store. Not sure the best way to handle this but that is what I am looking for. Tks in advance.
Magento has a wide array of options in regards to multiple vendors - even multiple storefronts with the same cart & checkout. An other option would be to use WordPress and WooCommerce in conjunction with their new product vendors plugin.
There are many plugins available for all the eCommerce Development Platform. For Magento Use Market Place for multi vendors. M-Connect Media an eCommerce Development Company