Automatic customer-vendor link

Hello, I am a rookie at nopcommerce and I wanted to know if there is any feature/configuration/plugin that automatically makes all customers vendors.

Lets say that I am trying to build something like amazon but for an specific business area. The idea is that every customer can upload their products and have some administration panel. Nothing fancy.

Can you give me some starting point to research on that?

I was thinking about maybe some plugin that "overrides" the registration process of a customer and add whatever information it needs to link it as a vendor.

Thank you

I just happen to be creating a custom plugin for a client that does similar using an ActionFilter for the Registration page..    However, a "marketplace" is not so easy as just create/link the vendor.  Among other things, you need to consider...

a) whether (and how much) tax needs to be collected, if the vendor will be shipping the product from his location.
b) if they are shipping from their own location, what shipping methods do they offer (e.g. FedEx, UPS)?  (And also, nopCommerce only supports one 'account number', etc. on the shipping provider configuration - i.e. the vendors can't configure their own to get accurate rates)
c) whether additional fields are needed on the vendor. E.g. Do you need their tax id?  their "store policies"?

Hi! Great points to consider.

I forgot to specify that the site would not have any "SHOPPING CART" features (shopping, shipping, rates, etc do not apply in my business model).

So it would be like a catalog of products where people can just contact the vendors for their products.

I would like to hear more about that plugin. Maybe it will apply also to my business model.

Thank you

I want this behaviour for all registered customers. Is it a bad practice to modify the Register method at CustomerController to create a vendor there and link it to the registered customer?
I find this way easier than having to creat a ActionFilter for the Registration page, spreaking from a rookie point of view.