I have 2 stores one for wholesale and one for retail
I sell the same products on both sites
each site is on different URL, but they are in the same server.
I would like the inventory to be shared between the two sites, except this they are totally independent
for example if I have 100pcs from the same product I want the 100pcs to be available in both sites, if a buyer by 30pcs on one site, immediately only 70 will be available in both sites
Can magento do this? how?
Stock levels are global throughout the installation. if it’s the exact same product, how could the stock level be different in different stores?
Related
We would like to start a E-commerce website with about 20K products. The inventory of every product would be controlled at the city level. Each city in the country will have its own inventory count. Also, price and tax structure per city will differ. Assuming about 3000 cities in my country, I believe this will be a massive website.
Also, the webfront has to be a single-page application which currently Magento does not have. There will be periodic promotions per city. Certain products will be offered at a discount. The company may want to even sell vegetables. The cutsomer may purchase 0.25 kg onions.
The traffic on the site is expected to be similar to Amazon.
My question: Is Magento suitable to serve as a backend system for such a website with every city being modelled as either a site or a store?
Do you foresee any issues with Magento for such a system?
Thanks
I assume that the product catalog will be shared between the cities and only the stock would differ. If yes - unfortunately Magento does not support it OOTB(Out-Of-The-Box) but there are some plugins for that which look promising (didnt use it though). As for the promotion and prices it is possible to manage them in website scope.
The traffic on the site is expected to be similar to Amazon.
so how much? Because i believe Amazon doesn't publish the original traffic;-) I worked with Magento based pages with traffic over 100m pageviews/month and it is stable but of course performance tweeks are needed.
As for the question about the single-page front-end - I believe it is possible - i know a project where the frontend is almost single-page.
The best about Magento is that it is very easy to extend and customize (of course when having proper knowledge). But it has some performance issues (which with proper knowledge can be resolved..).
I hope that this answers more or less your question.
I have two independently run Magento sites (different owners), "Site One" 1.7x and "Site Two" 1.8x.
The inventory, pricing, attributes, images etc are all identical.
However site one updates all stock and either enables or disables the sku if its in stock or not.
What is the best way to automatically update the stock status from site one to site two? Does anyone know of any extensions or can you do it via Magento? I have had a good search and haven't found anything that suits what hopefully is easy enough to do.
I am creating a portal where I will be having All shops\stores with their products for online buying. User can search products which will then show multiple shops offering that particular product. I need to ask, is this supported in Magento?
Magento supports multiple stores with multiple languages for each store. Products and categories cand be added across stores but not mandatory on all stores. Magento can be configured (ex: themes, product default display type, etc) for each store / store view.
I think you will find this post useful.
I would like to develop TWO Magento websites under different domain names domainONE.com and domainTWO.com
I would like to have SOME (not all) products (Approximately 200 out of 5000) on both websites to be the same, but the Titles, Pictures and Descriptions must be different. The products must be mapped/linked somehow, most importantly the stock MUST be the same on both websites for these particular products and the stock must change on both websites when the product sells on either one of the websites
Example:
domainONE.COM (has 5000 products)
domainTWO.com (200 same products as on domainONE.COM, but the Title, Description and Pictures must be different. However when the product sells on EITHER domains the stock must be synchronized between both domains.
Any solutions?
Thank you in advance!
The Magento is made to solve problem like yours.
It is noy just two, you can share products between hundreds of sites. In fact many store owner configure Magento like you wanted to do. You just got the thr terminology wrong. They called it Multi-store management. In Magento, you can run multiple websites in single installation and have different product name, description or any property for each website - imagine scenario of multi-linguel websites.
You have to read and understand Magento's multi-store management at Wiki page http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/overview-how-multiple-websites-stores-work/
Magento already provide this type of feature.
All you need to do is, set up a multisite magento website.
And yes stock(Inventory) is managed globally by Magento, so I think in short this is all you need.
Below are some links that could help you:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/tutorial-multi-site-multi-domain-setup
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-on-the-fly/multiple-sites/
Regards,
Milan
Please help me on this.
How can i create mutiple stores in with a single installation of magento. It's not like what you are thinking.
Suppose my website is www.pstall.com, In the tech store it will be
tech.pstall.com or the flower shop it will be flower.pstall.com with
the help of sub domain. The shops order will be in their store's
admin. they will not share any data but they will share customer's
login. So that a customer can log in every store with same id and
pass. I will use a static page for the mother store. So that customer ca n easily visit the stores. The sub stores
will be children. The stores won;t share any data even admin. Just
customer information and login.
Please help me how can i do that. Thanks in advance
Try this..
Creating multiple store in a single website
You can do it in several ways:
create many websites
create many stores on one website (then you will have store switcher)
create many store views (then you will have Language switcher)
you don't have any restrictions here, but just need to set Base Url for each website/store/store view.
I would like to recommend you a #1 way and create websites. as later you maybe would like to show some of sites in 2 languages
here I did the same:
http://innativelife.com/
http://body.innativelife.com/
http://soul.innativelife.com/
and also some store can have dedicated domain
http://www.rastrat.net/
but will be placed on same admin
the only issue is that Magento CE not support admin separation per store. which mean - each admin will see data from all stores. But I know how to resolve it ;)
In Magento Multistore are created with
--one website and many stores or
--Multiple websites with each having one or more then one store.
Setup will depend on what all you want to share and what you do not want to share.
Domains can be subdomains(store1.site.com) or same domain(site.com/store1) or totally different individual domains.
To share customer across stores you need to create one website but mulitple stores within that website.