peterh30 Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I wanted to know whether it is possible for an additional capability that Amazon.co.uk has on their site and that is to allow OTHER sellers registered to sell their goods on my oscommerce site and get the fees. At the moment I have not seen any similar online shop like Amazon that does this and they seem to currently have the monopoly. I think it would be a good thing to have a site built with this capability, if you dont want to sell your own goods. Any suggestions just leave a message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klarsen Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I wanted to know whether it is possible for an additional capability that Amazon.co.uk has on their site and that is to allow OTHER sellers registered to sell their goods on my oscommerce site and get the fees. At the moment I have not seen any similar online shop like Amazon that does this and they seem to currently have the monopoly. I think it would be a good thing to have a site built with this capability, if you dont want to sell your own goods. Any suggestions just leave a message. You aren't the only one thinking about this. I have this capability on my features wanted list also. It may be possible to cobble something together (if you are a php programmer) from a few different contributions. The Supplier Admin contribution (there are some others that do the same kind of thing) would be part of this, as would the Customer Add Product contribution. I'd love for someone to tackle this, and I would participate in paying for someone's time to put all this together. I think it would be a tremendous help -- along the lines of the affiliate contributions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDTyKe Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 YES!!!!!! Why isn't this done already!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannuck1964 Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 It has been created and done. Just not released yet ;) If you are looking to build something like this, my suggestion is to look at XML file exchange. I would not use javascript and pull info from the Host site to the affiliates site, due to some software firewalls blocking content from external sites (Zone Alarm for one). As well for order tracking look to install the affiliate system, then affiliates payments and sales tracking will be integrated with the entire system. cheers, Peter M. Peter McGrath ----------------------------- See my Profile (click here) for more information and to contact me for professional osCommerce support that includes SEO development, custom development and security implementation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klarsen Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 It has been created and done. Just not released yet ;) If you are looking to build something like this, my suggestion is to look at XML file exchange. I would not use javascript and pull info from the Host site to the affiliates site, due to some software firewalls blocking content from external sites (Zone Alarm for one). As well for order tracking look to install the affiliate system, then affiliates payments and sales tracking will be integrated with the entire system. cheers, Peter M. Peter, are you saying that this will be released soon? If so, then why are you giving instructions for how to do this? You're response also assumes some sort of automated collection of information from source sites, not manual entry by those trying to sell their property through someone else's oscommerce site (like Amazon.com marketplace). Is this the kind of sistem you have created? Or does your work accomodate manual entry? Wondering, Kent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannuck1964 Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Peter, are you saying that this will be released soon?Not yet ready for anytype of public release. If so, then why are you giving instructions for how to do this?In case you want to tackle this yourself or get someone to do it... You're response also assumes some sort of automated collection of information from source sites, not manual entry by those trying to sell their property through someone else's oscommerce site (like Amazon.com marketplace).Not quite sure what you mean here, basically I was looking for something which will display a hosts products (downloadable) via different sites. So I made something that the affiliate can pick and choose which products they want to sell from the host's site. The tool generates an XML file which the affiliate uploads to their site. This file is used tp display all of the products info. All sales go through paypal and then are logged in the osC cart and affiliate system. That is the basics and is a good model to follow if you decide to develop your own... cheers, Peter M Peter McGrath ----------------------------- See my Profile (click here) for more information and to contact me for professional osCommerce support that includes SEO development, custom development and security implementation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klarsen Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Not quite sure what you mean here, basically I was looking for something which will display a hosts products (downloadable) via different sites. So I made something that the affiliate can pick and choose which products they want to sell from the host's site. The tool generates an XML file which the affiliate uploads to their site. This file is used tp display all of the products info. All sales go through paypal and then are logged in the osC cart and affiliate system. That is the basics and is a good model to follow if you decide to develop your own... cheers, Peter M Peter, I think we are talking about two different things here, and one of us must have misunderstood the original message. I understood this thread to be about allowing outsiders to sell their goods on my osCommerce site. Have you seen Amazon.com's Marketplace program? It is exactly what we are talking about. Let me give an example. I sell books in Portuguese. Visitor A to my site happens to have a book in Portuguese that they no longer want and would like to sell. If the software that I envision exists, Visitor A could register, enter the book that he wishes to sell, and have it be posted for sale on my osCommerce site. When the book then sells, Visitor A would then get a notice to ship the book to the purchaser, and my company would eventually pay Visitor A the sales price less a commission. The above is what I understood Peter Hamilton to be talking about. You seem to be talking more about an affiliate system -- something that oscAffiliate should handle, I think. Did I misunderstand you somehow? Is what I've discribed above something that you have worked on, if it wasn't what you are talking about? Kent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannuck1964 Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Yes I have miss understood.... Sorry. There are a couple of contributions available here which do this. Look in the contributions section for mall or multiple vendors, or do a google for this. I understand what you nean now. I do know there are several out there which do exactly as you discribed above....sorry for the my confusion :) cheers, Peter M Peter McGrath ----------------------------- See my Profile (click here) for more information and to contact me for professional osCommerce support that includes SEO development, custom development and security implementation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDTyKe Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Hmm, and they are called...? :) I didn't find much! Matt Yes I have miss understood.... Sorry. There are a couple of contributions available here which do this. Look in the contributions section for mall or multiple vendors, or do a google for this. I understand what you nean now. I do know there are several out there which do exactly as you discribed above....sorry for the my confusion :) cheers, Peter M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 I am also searching for a contribution that can do this. Anyone got a name for these contributions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lupole Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Peter, I think we are talking about two different things here, and one of us must have misunderstood the original message. I understood this thread to be about allowing outsiders to sell their goods on my osCommerce site. Have you seen Amazon.com's Marketplace program? It is exactly what we are talking about. Let me give an example. I sell books in Portuguese. Visitor A to my site happens to have a book in Portuguese that they no longer want and would like to sell. If the software that I envision exists, Visitor A could register, enter the book that he wishes to sell, and have it be posted for sale on my osCommerce site. When the book then sells, Visitor A would then get a notice to ship the book to the purchaser, and my company would eventually pay Visitor A the sales price less a commission. The above is what I understood Peter Hamilton to be talking about. You seem to be talking more about an affiliate system -- something that oscAffiliate should handle, I think. Did I misunderstand you somehow? Is what I've discribed above something that you have worked on, if it wasn't what you are talking about? Kent I have a store that very much functions this way. We allow our customers to become vendors, We have a vendor information imput section on our create account and edit account pages. Once a customer becomes a vendor we then give them admin access, but only to the categories that fit their needs. Our vendors can also each choose a different shipping method or methods that suite their needs. So if a cusomer buy's three items and these items are all from different vendors, the shipping method "UPS etc" selection and cost for each vendor is seperated for the customer to view on the checkout shipping page. After the sale is complete, we notify the vendor and they ship the product. All transations go through our payment modules and we just paypal the total to the vendor minus our commission. :thumbsup: Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coalescefl Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 I have a client who needs this setup! Is there any contribution that can do this? I can't seem to find it. If not I can pay to have this contribution created... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coalescefl Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 Here's an old contribution that seems like it needs some help, but might do the job: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...search,supplier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b101aa2 Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 I'm working on this currently. Let's just say, off the wall crazy programming of the likes I am left scratching my head half the time trying to figure out which loops to use and cross queries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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