Hi, I have a new project and right now I'm looking for the best solution to realize it. First of all I will tell you the project setup and idea that you can understand what I want to realize. I want to create a multi-vendor marketplace like etsy, fiverr ... But the seller can't sell what he want, he have to create his products over our product builder. When he has create a product he have to buy it one time to see if we had produce it like he want. If he is satisfied with his creation he can publish his creation in the store. Every time a customer buys his creation he will get a fixed amount of money. In short: We: produce, sell, deliver the product Seller: create the product with the product builder To give you guys a more visual understanding I have this example: Product Builder (it should be a step by step building): www.chocomize.com/creation Store Front: fiverr.com The idea would be: Just imagin the "http://www.chocomize.com" page. Where you can buy your custom product or the creations from other customers. You are customer, creator and seller at the same time. What do you guys think? Which platform would be the best to realize this concept? I have researched for magento, cs cart, prestashop, opencart. The platform should be able to provide the following things, or should be able to handle this requirements after custom coding: 1. A multi-vendor setup to realize this kind of store 2. Restrict the seller as much that he just can create his products over a product builder and just manage (public, hide, delete) his creations. 3. Able to create a product builder like "http://www.chocomize.com/creation" 4. Give the creator of the product a fix amount for every sell 5. Customer is at the same time the seller (just one account) Example: ebay, fiverr … Which platform would you go for if you want as less custom code and changes as possible. Many thanks Lucan
What exactly is the product in question to get arbitrarily built here? This does not make much sense to me. Nigel
Hello Nigel, thanks for your replay. There are a lot of product variations who will work with that. Let's say T-Shirt's. You can create and design a T-shirt for you and after you have bought the T-shirt it will also be released in your shop on the page. If someone say, "hey I also like the T-shirt design from Nigel" he can buy it and you get "x $" because you create the design. You can also do that with chocolate or other products. It's about creating something as customer, which you can't produce on your own. Is it clearer now? Lucan
That sounds to me like you need builders for a range of things. This is fairly complex. I can see a way to get this done in Magento but its going to be fairly pricey. Just to simply deal with multi-vendor functionality you are looking at something like this http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/umarketplace-suite-multi-vendor-marketplace.html There are a few others as well such as https://store.webkul.com/Magento-Extensions/Magento-Marketplace.html Now with that said, that is only part of the issue here. This will need to get wireframed to actually get done coherently. Product building or "kitting" as it is called sometimes is certainly doable in Magento as well but in terms of what you are trying to do here you are talking about 2 different things. Letting the customer build a product is one thing. Letting a seller build something to sell on the same site doesn't make much sense though. If I had to venture a guess each seller(who will have his own shop page etc.) can likely have its own builder app though. For instance, one guy sells chocoloate, another sells t-shirts. You are also looking at a dedicated server with at least 8 gigs of ram at a minimum. The only other multi vendor set up that is likely worth looking at is xcart http://www.x-cart.com/mall-solution.html hope that helps a bit. That is a complex project requiring a lot of planning. That is largely however how you would go about things unless you had folks who could code that by hand. Nigel
Hi, "Letting the customer build a product is one thing. Letting a seller build something to sell on the same site doesn't make much sense though." Let's take the chocolate example. If someone love chocolate and want to create custom chocolate he can do that, but he can't share his creation and someone else can't see the best 100 creations ever. Just because you love to create and share different combinations of chocolate doesn't mean you will build a shop, because it's a big hustle to do that. Not to mention the production of the chocolate... But it's not important that it makes sense to you, because I know the concept will work with my product category. Let's look into the project complexity. I agree with you completely about the project complex. But only if I want to have everything at once. For example "the vendor part" could be: I can take "OpenCart" with this "Multimerch" extension. If I take out the functions of "create product, delivery, edit order, ..." then the buyer/seller can't do anything except of release, hide or delete its products (creations) and request payout. "The product build part" could be: In this part I need someone who program the building plugin. There are a few requests on freelancer.com between 200-500$ for a magento builder like this on: http://www.chocomize.com/creation I don't need a visual builder just like you said a kitting builder. How I can combine this two parts? Easy. It's not my first project, so I know when I release the page there will be not 1000 orders at one time. It will grow, every day a few more. I'm sure I can handle it in the beginning with just take every day the custom building products and put them manually in to the selling section from the creator and he can release or hide his creations. I want to bootstrap. I don't want to get every thing perfect before I start. So my question is what software options do I have. Lucan
Hello there, This can be easily done in Magento, also for multi vendor functioanlity you can have marketplace extension, if anyone need multi vendor extension or any type of custom magneto store let me know I can guide on right direction. Cheers!