hezyz wrote:
regarding payment, when we built the platform we considered all aspects of payments including taxes and product guaranties.
the safest way is that each vendor will charge for it's own products.
I never checked it with a redirect payment page, however with credit card each of the vendors has it's own credit terminal, the orders are separated by vendors each order has it's own request and response. The end results is that each vendor charges for it's own product, vendor are responsible for the charging, shipments and guaranties. the store is just a platform for the vendors activities.
WOW! Good job. I didn't know you had the payments worked out to pay each vendor individually. That's amazing! I was thinking about using your multi vendor for a new web idea I had and this was the one thing I was puzzled about.
Here's some thoughts on its implementation in Nop 3: Could the multi vendor have one order id for the customer and then sub id's for the vendors?
So when a customer orders, they would get only one order confirmation for their total order. Say for Order#1234. This email would contain all the products that they ordered.
The vendor's order numbers would be Order#1234-[vendor1], Order#1234-[vendor2] and so on. When each vendor shipped the goods, the customer would get an email from each of them.
hezyz wrote:
The other option is to divide the charge to 2 transactions one for the vendor one for the store, however the credit card companies does not like this idea Further the is a tax problem with 2 transactions issue two invoices for the same product from two different vendors
Could it be implemented as one charge from the main store and then automatically send payment from the main store's bank account to the vendors once the money was collected? I guess I am thinking of PayPal and that if each vendor had an email address the money could be sent directly to them from the main store. What do you think, would something like this work? This way the customer would only have one charge from the main store.
hezyz wrote:
in my store we charge all vendors by the end of each month, we charge a monthly fee and commission from sales.
Hezyz, if you wouldn't mind I would love to see your store. Could you give me a link or PM me one? You have put so much work into your multi vendor version that it would be nice to see the site the idea started from... Thanks!