Hello nopCommerce Community,
I am in the midst of a project where I need to have Vendors purchase a subscription in order to post products (almost like coupons) to our site. This flow is something like this.
1.) Vendor goes to our site and selects a subscription plan to enroll in. The subscriptions are basically allowances for how many coupons they can publish per month. For example, a 10 pack, 25 pack, 50 Pack, and Unlimited. I am setting these subscriptions up as recurring products and using the price of "Telecommunications, broadcasting and electronic services" (although I'm not sure what that does)
2.) During the subscription checkout, the Vendor goes through the registration process. I plan to have it setup where they are automatically given a Vendor role based on the subscription they select.
3.) Once they are registered, they will have access to the "Vendor Portal" which looks to be nopCommerce out of the box functionality where they go into the nopCommerce Admin area and get access to the following: Dashboard; Catalog; Sales; Reports; Help.
4.) I want the Vendors to be able to create their own products/coupons which will then show on our site. When users visit the site, they can then search or filter based on the product/coupon attributes (for example, coupon available dates, zip code, etc..).
5.) Reporting wise, I would also like to show more analytics to the Vendors that what is available under the reports now. Not sure how that's possible.
6.) Also would like to capture data on the customers that select Vendor coupons, etc but don't see that as an option.
I would really enjoy getting some perspective on how best to approach this Steps 1-4 are my biggest priorities for now. I seem to be ale to do the 1-3 ok but not sure how to ultimately display/make available the Vendor products and services on our sites.
Thanks for the help!