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How to construct online shopping portal

         

Bean007

7:38 pm on Jul 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

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How does one design a shopping mall (portal) with multiple vendors? Any help, suggestions or resources would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Corey Bryant

7:55 pm on Jul 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

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You might check out osCommerce - I think they have a contribution for that. We built something in ASP - a bit difficult, but it can be done.

Do you want to use the same merchant account, ship to different addresses etc? All of these plus more needs to also be taken into consideration

-Corey

lorax

1:42 pm on Jul 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Do you want to manage the individual shops or let the owners do that? Do you want each shop to have it's own checkout/fulfillment - essentially the only thing they have in common is the that they share a DN and/or storefront?

Bean007

3:45 pm on Jul 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

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In terms of online mall I am thinking of one that replicates that of a mall. The online mall would have different vendors...Overstock, Lands End, and others.

How does one go about designing such a mall?

How does one go about tracking commissions with multiple subagents?

Is it possible to integrate all of the commissions from the different vendors for easier tracking of commissions?

lorax

4:52 pm on Jul 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Geesh - forgot my manners...
Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

There are some carts that offer a Mall concept but you'll need to do some research to determine if they do what you want. You can always have them customized. One I know offers the mall concept is X-Cart Pro but I know of at least one person who modified osCommerce to do the same.

As for building your own. Unless you've got a good handle on scripting I'd recommend against it. The biggest reason is the need for airtight code - i.e. no security holes!

ferhanz

5:08 pm on Jul 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

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google for ZenCart and OS Commerce

Bean007

6:30 pm on Jul 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for the info. I will look into it.