Assigning a certain Brand to a certain sales person?

[Boba7523]

Hi guys, basically I have 3 sales at my place right now, and I want to know if I can assign a certain brand of products to a certain sales rep for processing? The money that sales make would be separate from the money other sales make.

 

Sales #1:

Process X brand whenever customers buy them, and the money would go into his account.

 

Sales #2:

Process Y brand whenever customers buy them, and the money would go into his account.

 

I do not wish for the revenue to be combined, but to separate them.

 

Thanks!

[Boba7523]

No one knows?

[Stephan (VS)]

The only thing I can think of is duplicating you site and using a multiple shop Addon Shop A sell Brand A, Shop B sell Brand B etc.

 

Then Make them look identical and put links to the other brands on each site

or

Put all the brands on each site and make the site redirect them when the click on the brand in the Manufacturers' box & links, or if you don't have alot of products make the product's individually redirect to the other site.

 

But customers will only be able to buy one brand per shopping cart...

 

It's a tricky one. :huh:

[satish]

You want the sales rep to place order(POS type).

Then create different categories and ask your sales rep to use specific categories only.

 

Or if they are placing orders thru admin modify admin code so that when they place order thay have access to those specific products only.

 

If You provide a complete scope as to How Your shop operates that will help n coming with a proper solution.

 

else Multi store solution suggested in above comment is also a good suggestion(If orders are placed from front end and not thru admin).

 

Satish

[Boba7523]

Thanks for the replies guys. The first solution is going to be quite tricky like you said ... :/

 

Satish: Let me set up a scenario. My site will sell 4 brands of cars: Honda & BMW. There will be 4 people involved: Salesman #1, Salesman #2, Customer #1, Customer #2

 

Customer #1 buys a Honda car from my site.

Honda car orders are processed by Salesman #1, and the money will goto his account.

Customer #2 buys a BMW from my site.

BMW car orders are processed by Salesman #2, and the money will goto his account.

 

If you would like to think about it this way, my site can be a place for other vendors to come and sell their products. Of course, the vendors will not share the money they make right? It will go into their own individual account. That is what I mean.

 

Hope this clears it up, and I hope there's an easy solution

[MrPhil]

No one knows?

 

osCommerce was not architected to do this sort of thing. It assumes one "salesman" (the user interface) and all the money goes into one pot. It's a fairly major change to split up revenue streams, but why do you need to do that? If the two salesmen are selling separate products (no overlap), it should be easy to split up the revenue downstream of osCommerce with some postprocessing based on units moved (product set A generated this income, and it's credited to salesman 1, and product set B generated that income, and it's credited to salesman 2, and everything else is what's left). Or am I missing something here? The same principle could be applied to multiple vendors under one roof, so long as their products don't overlap (share product IDs). You're going to have to track sales by stock number anyway, so you don't run out of stock, so just feed units sold x listed price to a spreadsheet.

[Jack_mcs]

Hi guys, basically I have 3 sales at my place right now, and I want to know if I can assign a certain brand of products to a certain sales rep for processing? The money that sales make would be separate from the money other sales make.

 

Sales #1:

Process X brand whenever customers buy them, and the money would go into his account.

 

Sales #2:

Process Y brand whenever customers buy them, and the money would go into his account.

 

I do not wish for the revenue to be combined, but to separate them.

 

Thanks!

The SalesForce contribution (see My Addons) may get you started in the right direction. It won't provide the control you want but you can assign each sales person to a group and use the reports to see what is due them.

 

Jack

[satish]

Thanks for the replies guys. The first solution is going to be quite tricky like you said ... :/

 

Satish: Let me set up a scenario. My site will sell 4 brands of cars: Honda & BMW. There will be 4 people involved: Salesman #1, Salesman #2, Customer #1, Customer #2

 

Customer #1 buys a Honda car from my site.

Honda car orders are processed by Salesman #1, and the money will goto his account.

Customer #2 buys a BMW from my site.

BMW car orders are processed by Salesman #2, and the money will goto his account.

 

If you would like to think about it this way, my site can be a place for other vendors to come and sell their products. Of course, the vendors will not share the money they make right? It will go into their own individual account. That is what I mean.

 

Hope this clears it up, and I hope there's an easy solution

Multistore solution appears to be the best solution for Your case.

 

Still You did'nt state whether the sales guy are using front end(order thru catalogf) or backend(order thru admin).

 

If its thru catalog.

I recommend create three or four subdomains.

say honda.site.com and this is handled by one sales person.

another subdomain BMW.site.com is handled by the other sales person.

 

This way it can be easily handled.

Even You can configure payment,shipping and other options.

only customers will be shared across all domains.

 

Satish

[Boba7523]

Thanks for the many solutions! I think my answer lies within one of them :)

I will give it a try first, and if I have any more questions, I'll be sure to come on here to ask for help!

 

Thanks again guys, appreciate it!

[MLEMedia]

I saw this post and wanted to add to it. I have an issue that I think is pretty similar to the original post. I am making t-shirts for a guy who makes knives. He already has an established OSCommerce cart. I would like to be able to integrate my product into his cart. The problem is, I don't want him to have to do anything. Payment and order information needs to come straight to me when a shirt is ordered. He does not need to be notified of anything, except when someone orders one of his products. It seems to me like I don't have any other choice, but to create a totally separate cart. Any input?