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+ | =====uMarketplace Multivendor / Price Comparison / Select & Sell===== | ||
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+ | ==== Introduction ==== | ||
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+ | Multivendor, | ||
+ | Multivendor add-on does its job in the background using decision method to determine which vendor to use for shipping product to customer.\\ | ||
+ | Price Comparison add-on works on top of Multivendor add-on and gives customer an option to choose specific vendor to buy from.\\ | ||
+ | Select & Sell is an extra add-on to Price Comparison add-on that adds functionality in vendor portal to manage vendor offers for particular products.\\ | ||
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+ | The add-ons should be turned on by setting the decision method **'' | ||
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+ | In case the decision method is **'' | ||
+ | The issue with price indexer might arise if Price comparison add-on is used while Multivendor add-on is disabled. To avoid this issue, make sure the decision method is set.\\ | ||
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+ | ==== Few technical notes ==== | ||
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+ | In case the Multivendor add-on will not be used, but Price Comparison add-on is already installed, the custom columns, added by Price Comparison add-on to the index tables, will have to be removed:\\ | ||
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+ | To trigger the reinstall of Price Comparison add-on, which will add required custom columns in index tables (flush cache storage to rerun install), the row in ''// | ||
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+ | ===== Inventory ===== | ||
+ | Inventory is another reason to use the multivendor decision method. In case vendors started adding products, it won't have multivendor inventory entry or there won't be vendor offer recorded. Vendor offers can be viewed in **//product edit > dropship vendors tab.//** Even though vendor can see his products in vendor portal, he is not able to sell it, if there is no vendor offer in //dropship vendors tab.// | ||
+ | There is a key difference between ownership of a product and selling it. Ownership is indicated by //dropship vendor attribute// seen in general tab of product edit. Only one vendor can modify product attributes (//vendor portal > products edit menu//). All other vendors can modify their own offers only.\\ | ||
+ | Vendor offer is combined entity for vendor price (Price Comparison add-on) and vendor specific inventory.\\ | ||
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+ | **Vendor price, Special Price, State (condition), | ||
+ | **Status** indicates whether vendor offer is active or not. To stop vendor from selling the product, Admin can change the status of the offer to // | ||
+ | Some products may not be visible on the frontend or indicated as out of stock. The probable cause, there is no vendor offers for this products.\\ | ||
+ | Note, after starting using Multivedor add-on, values of //inventory tab// of product edit, may not be changed. That's because product inventory is a summary of vendor offers inventory. 10000 stock qty in inventory tab indicates there is a vendor with unlimited stock, i.e. //stock qty// field have empty value.\\ | ||
+ | If multivendor decision was set from the beggining, all products vendors add in //vendor portal > products edit// will have vendor offer automatically inserted. | ||
+ | Another place vendor offers can be add/edit in admin area is **//vendor edit > associated products tab//** | ||
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+ | ==== Important mislead about combined inventory ==== | ||
+ | At the time of the checkout the maximum qty customer can order is the maximum qty available for vendor selling particular product e.g '' | ||
+ | Customer can order only qty of 10 of productA not qty of 15. Even if there are multiple line items in cart (productA with different combination of custom options). It's caused by technical limitation of stock check methods in combination with decision method. \\ | ||
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+ | ===== Select & Sell ===== | ||
+ | Select & Sell add-on gives vendors possibility to modify their offers in vendor portal. \\ | ||
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+ | ===== Price Comparison ===== | ||
+ | Price Comparison add-on adds a customization to frontend product list and product view pages. On product list it shows number of offers by condition with starting price. On product view it list detailed table of vendor offer where customer can select desired vendor. \\ | ||
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+ | ===== Vendor forms configuration ===== | ||
+ | There are number of ways vendor can add/edit his offers. | ||
+ | * **Products edit** section in vendor portal. Only product' | ||
+ | * **Select & Sell** along with **My Sell List** sections offers add/edit forms layout, which can be configured in **// | ||
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+ | ===== Import vendor offers ===== | ||
+ | **//Batch add-on//** in combination with Price Comparison add-on provides an option to import vendor offers by using inventory import functionality | ||
+ | The list of allowed codes: [vendor_price], | ||