Different providers email notification

[busygirl]

:blink: Could some of you help me?

 

I don't know if there is any possibility for me to do the following:

 

I want to sell other products in my site, but those products won't be supplied by me, so I just want people to find out about this products through my site, but I want the actual supplier to get the email notification directly when one customer is interested in one of his products, and not having me to be telling him every time he gets a purchase order.

 

Do any of you think is possible??? :blush:

 

Thank you for your help!!! :D

[dynamoeffects]

Sounds like you're talking about dropshipping. Search the forums and contributions as many people have dropship setups going.

[busygirl]

Sounds like you're talking about dropshipping. Search the forums and contributions as many people have dropship setups going.

 

 

If I understand correctly if I use dropshipping I will be the one that sends the product? is this correct? because what I want to do is just host the suppliers' products and then they are the ones that receive the order and have to send it to the customer... Could you enlight me a little bit more???

[busygirl]

Sounds like you're talking about dropshipping. Search the forums and contributions as many people have dropship setups going.

 

 

I finally get it.. is not dropshipping what I will be needing, since its true I dont have the product in my inventory, but the supplier don't have a site where the customers can buy it directly...

I want the suppliers sell through my website, but their own products and they are the ones receiving the order directly...

any other solution????

[ComicWisdom]

If drop shipping won't do it, I do believe you would have to do some coding.

 

Add a field to each product description that includes either the email address or id of the merchant that sells the product.

 

In checkout_process.php you would need to add a routine first to group the products be either the merchants emal address or id (I'd chosse email address in both instances) so that in cases of a peson ordering products that come from multiple merchants only those products for the specified email address would be sent in the email.

 

The next step would be to alter the sendotheremailto routine to select and match the products and send the email.

 

In both instances you would need an array.

[dynamoeffects]

Drop Shipping is where you sell a manufacturer's product on your website, but don't actually handle the inventory. You simply send the order onto them, take your cut of the profit, and they ship the item to the customer. That's what it sounded like you're doing to me.