Multiple Stores under one domain name?

[papoola]

Hi,

My store will offer some items I ship from CA but mostly items dropshipped from OK. I have not been able to figure out how to configure "multi-vendor" so am wondering if it would be possible to build two separate stores that are linked under my one domain name? I realize there would be two separate invoices and payments involve but that's OK. Just want to know if it's doable.

Thanks,

Katie "Princess Papoola"

[Simplyeasier]

Hi,

My store will offer some items I ship from CA but mostly items dropshipped from OK.  I have not been able to figure out how to configure "multi-vendor" so am wondering if it would be possible to build two separate stores that are linked under my one domain name?  I realize there would be two separate invoices and payments involve but that's OK.  Just want to know if it's doable. 

Thanks,

Katie "Princess Papoola"

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You can have any number of stores running of your domain - it will involve you setting up sub domains and a few re-directs so that person typing in www.shop1.co.uk will go to the right cart and www.shop2.co.uk will go to another cart.

 

You can have multi sites running of one database (although I sometimes wonder why anyone wants to do that - especially if you have a host that offers unlimited mysql databases) - If both stores are selling the same product hence the need to run of 1 database - why have 2 or more stores ? :huh:

 

From your brief question - you might be just as well securing a new domain name for shop 2 - and setting up the infrastructure for that from ground up - keeps it clean .

 

hth

 

Charles

[papoola]

You can have any number of stores running of your domain - it will involve you setting up sub domains and a few re-directs so that person typing in www.shop1.co.uk will go to the right cart and www.shop2.co.uk will go to another cart.

 

You can have multi sites running of one database (although I sometimes wonder why anyone wants to do that - especially if you have a host that offers unlimited mysql databases) - If both stores are selling the same product hence the need to run of 1 database - why have 2 or more stores ? :huh:

 

From your brief question - you might be just as well securing a new domain name for shop 2 - and setting up the infrastructure for that from ground up - keeps it clean .

 

hth

 

Charles

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Thanks for responding, Charles. I have VERY limited computer skills and spend hours trying to figure things out for my Store so am looking for the "easier, softer way". Hard to understand the "help" answers when you don't speak the language! My thought was to have one domain name/store name but have one category of products linked to a separate store database with separate cart, shipping module, payment module, etc. so products shipped from one location would end up on one invoice/payment and products shipped from second location would be on a separate invoice/payment. So one site but two databases. Seems cumbersome but all the threads I've read on the multi-vendor contribution makes it sound like it doesn't work right and I'm not sure I could get it up and working. If my idea would work, I'd need to know what code changes/added links to make to have it work smoothly.

If I'm totally off-base, let me know or please suggest another way for me to accomplish this.

Thanks,

Katie "Princess Papoola" ;)

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[rotsky]

You can have any number of stores running of your domain - it will involve you setting up sub domains and a few re-directs so that person typing in www.shop1.co.uk will go to the right cart and www.shop2.co.uk will go to another cart.

 

This is interesting. I've just installed OSC and am at the bottom of the learning curve, so excuse the simple questions. I know I have a lot of RTFM-ing to do, but as this thread was already started... ;)

 

What I want to achieve is this: I'm a member of an artist's group. We'd like to have a store where people can sell drawings, jewellery etc online - all under one roof, as it were, but with each artist managing his/her part of the store in terms of adding products etc. Obviously it's important that each person can only edit/manage his/her own part of the store, not other people's. We don't have unlimited MySQL databases - ideally I'd do the whole thing from one. The artists wouldn't need access to the database per se, but obviously they need admin rights on the OSC app.

 

I'd appreciate your opinion on whether this is feasible with OSC. I'm not a programmer or web designer (I'm a writer and photographer), but I do have reasonable skills with PHP and HTNL/XHTML/CSS. (To get an idea of where I'm at you could check out my portfolio site at www.montcocher.com/portfolio/, and the 'showcase' part of this artists' site as www.diverse-art.com (that one isn't quite finished yet, but it'll give you an idea).

 

I know I need to research this myself, but the opinion of an experienced person might save me wasting time if this isn't going to be possible.

 

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[ArtRat]

Obviously it's important that each person can only edit/manage his/her own part of the store, not other people's.

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try this contribution for admin access

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ch,admin+access

 

this might be the very thing you need.

each artist could be a "manufacturer" where you change all the gargon to say Artist not Manufacturer and each artist "manufactrer" could then be able to edit the "category" you give them.

 

i think that's how it worked.

 

I never used this admin thing but have seen it when i tried on one of those prebuilt osCommerce packages with all the contributions anyone could ever want except what you really need for your own store kinda deal.

 

you can modify osCommerce anyway you can imagine - after you read the " :-" " manuals of course