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Dear community

In the last few days, I tried to start a platform with the extend "submit items" functionality of Phoca Cart. Unfortunately, I'm not yet there where I imagined, Phoca Cart could bring me.

I'm planning to create a community where users can submit their own products (local farmers). These products can be bought by consumers (or other farmers as well). Therefore, a consumer could potentially shop from different farmers. So, by converting a submitted item into a product, I'm kind of loosing this direct link between submitting farmer and consumer order. Somehow, I see a lot of prepared stuff (like vendors, manufactors, item submission etc.) - but kind of not the whole story.

Are there - with the existing version - ways on implementing this? And if no, does anybody feel able to implement it together with me (I'm a very basic programmer with rough PHP knowledge - but definitively not a code magician... ;-) ) to make it available to the community?

Following features, I'm missing:

• Farmers should be able to control their submitted products even when integrated / imported into the product lifecycle (also eg. for stock amount management, availability etc.)

• Farmers should get notified if a consumer ordered a product this farmer offers

• Farmers should see their orders and customers but only theirs and not others farmer's customers

• A delivery service should get informed about which user has ordered which products from which farmer and - in best case - in a consolidated way (so they don't have to show off three times a day at the same farmer because they didn't realize that there are more orders)
  
  
  Thanks for your opinions
  Axylo

Hi, in Phoca Cart, there is no multivendor function.

- There is Submit feature, but it works for catalogue feature. It means users can upload their products to the catalogue, but this is all they can, they don't have then any administration to somehow manage it, see demo of such catalogue: https://www.phoca.cz/jtd/

- In Phoca Cart, you can even see vendors but these are not wendors for multivendor function, but for POS, so you can sell products in online store but even in brick and mortar store.

Jan

Thank you for your answer, Jan