nopCommerce 2.65 and 2.70 roadmap

A suggestion I have would be to do with the Wishlist.  When an item(s) are added to cart from the Wishlist and purchased, during the last step of creating the order, remove the item(s) from the Wishlist so people can keep track of what has been purchased from the list.  It is more or less a suggestion to eliviate that duty from the owner of the Wishlist (to keep it up-to-date).  Thanks.

Another thought I've had is to leverage the Telerik Grids internal functionality more for the admin side.  I'm talking about filtering, sorting, scrolling, etc.  Those three would be helpful mostly, especially filtering and sorting so that custom filtering wouldn't need done.  This would allow the grid to do it for you at the very least.

Hi,

When can we expect Nop 2.70 to be shipped?

jariwalakrunal wrote:
Please see the original post of this topic

Could someone tell me what the difference is between multi-vendor support and multi-store support?

leen3o wrote:
I guess there can be different definitions. Here is mine:
Multi-vendor (drop-shipping): several vendors selling under one store (as this in Nop)which has only one common: domain, skin, product catalog, customer db, payment and shipping methods, reward points, discounts, etc. There are several administrations, one general which sees and controls everything and one for each vendor from which he updates his products and sees and controls the portion of the orders refering to his products. This is, in real life similar to some department stores which provide (or "rent") places to vendors to display their products but customer pay at store's checkout. The vendors do not have control over the customers base nor the discount. promotion and reward strategies, etc.  Amazon could be a case of multi-vendor.

Multi-Store: Several stores sharing one or several parts of the cart system. Here we can have different combinations and cases. Examples:
- Like a pizza (or groceries, supermarket, etc.) chain with a general catalog,  but not all product and prices are alike in all branches: One domain (each store might have its subdomain); one skin; one central customer db; common payment and shipping methods, and discount and rewards settings; etc. Individual stores hava their administration to check/control thir orders and to select their products and pricing from general catalog.

- Like a mall: several stores under one roof. One general domain and other common infrasturcture (i.e. delivery, credit card processing, rewards, etc). Each store has its domain (redirected to its subdomain in the general domain) skin (sometimes from a set of templates provided by the mall), catalog, customers, discounts, individual payment and shipping methods.  The Mall might have a general catalog, encompasing all individual catalogs, for the purposes of aiding the customers to do searches and then refer them to the individual store. It may also provide customer service, call/chat center and a guaranteies to customers. Ebay can be in a combination of this and previous case.

- Like a shopping district where all stores are independent (domain, skin, customers, catalog, payment/shipping, discounts/rewards, etc.) but they all share a common cart system (most db's are individualized), so that the hosting and any enhancements are shared by all stores.

- A multi-Vendor could be considered a particular case of a multi-store.

I guess this topic is the subject for extensive discussions.

I would also add that multi-vendor could be that one store owner sells products that he gets from multiple vendors/manufacturers and would like the functionality to setup their information in nopCommerce so that when orders are placed, the products in those orders can be automatically separated out into Purchase Orders that can then be sent to the correct manufacturer's. It would be nice if it could be automated based on what products in the order are assigned to what manufacturer's and have the PO's sent to a specific email address that would be setup in the manufacturer setup.

SilhouetteBS wrote:
If I understand you well thats exactly what I described in multi-vendor and we have an un-official version:
Multi-vendor (drop-shipping): several vendors selling under one store (as this in Nop)which has only one common

when would we move to entity framework 5.0, mvc4 ?

it's interested to see how much nop performs faster in the new engine :D

congthanhgiong wrote:
EF 5.0 was released just a couple of days ago. It needs some time to test the new version with nopCommerce. If everything is fine, then it'll be used in the next version

congthanhgiong wrote:
Not in the near time. Because a lot of hosting companies still use MVC 3. I presume it'll takes about 4-6 months (max) for them to upgrade