Hi guys,
I'm currently using an old version of X-Cart and am looking into upgrading. But before I do that I want to know what alternative there are out there that match my requirements. Please feel free to post your recommendations!
The system must:
1. Have multiple stallholder/sellers. People can sign up to our site and sell their goods online.
2. Shoppers can enjoy a multi-cart checkout function. So they can shop at different shops and checkout in one action.
3. Stallholders/sellers can add their shop to more than one category! This is important.
Thanks in advance.
serpico
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serpico posted this at 06:39 — 28th August 2008.
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multi vendor / multiple sellers are th keywords here ; )
leapfrog posted this at 16:35 — 9th November 2008.
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Just try ZenCart. I think it's suitable for your requirements.
serpico posted this at 23:03 — 9th November 2008.
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The difficulty is finding a package that has multi vendor support. I think this feature is still on the ZenCart Wishlist.
Xcart is the closest I've found, but it's not ideal.
There's a fantastic blog article on the subject of "The elusive Opensource E-Commerce Holy Grail: Multi-Site, Multi-Store".
serpico
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Dangerous.Script posted this at 09:19 — 10th November 2008.
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Magento will also be suitable. Take a look at simplehelix.com - they provide this software within hosting plans and out of them...
serpico posted this at 22:44 — 10th November 2008.
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Yes, I'm a big fan of Magento. I think it's one of the best ecommerce packages around at the moment. However, its not a true multi vendor solution. Though it does allow you to have multiple store fronts it does not provide the ability for each store holder to login to their account and administrate their own products and store setup.
BTW - I see Templatemonster has finally got some magento themes online!
serpico
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JeevesBond posted this at 00:54 — 11th November 2008.
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I'm not sure about multi-store, but Drupal + eCommerce/Ubercart certainly does multi-site.
Sorry, I haven't the time to test whether these modules will do exactly what you need.
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serpico posted this at 03:31 — 11th November 2008.
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Thanks, I've looked at that too - no luck.
We basically require an ecommerce 'mall' type system, but there's nothing credible to suit this yet. Would love a nice web 2.0 style open source solution!
serpico
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decibel.places posted this at 03:43 — 11th November 2008.
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I am not normally one to advocate Joomla! but in certain specialties (eg out of the box dating site) it is a better pre-packaged solution than Drupal.
Perhaps you will find what you are looking for with Joomla Shop Builder or the Sharesale Builder at the same site.
Be prepared to pay $55 to $96 (yup, in Joomla! you pay extra to get the good stuff).
If I were developing it, I would stick with Drupal/Ubercart as JeevesBond recommended.
Finntroll posted this at 12:10 — 14th November 2008.
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Have you looked up simplehelix.com? They are really good fro eCommerce deals, what ever you choose hey support it. Also they have very fast server software.
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Musson posted this at 11:55 — 20th November 2008.
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simplehelix.com uses litespped server - that makes them very fast, what is good for eCommerce sites. But it is incompatible with cpanel. They offer DA instead.
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serpico posted this at 21:54 — 20th November 2008.
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Why all the talk about simplehelix? Aren't they just a hosting company at the end of the day?
serpico posted this at 14:27 — 27th May 2009.
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It's been really tough to find something with the multi vendor / multiple seller solution whereby each seller can have his or her own store front. The only solution I have found is WPMU with a shopping cart. This is the path I'm going down. I'll let you kno how it goes.
serpico
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