friends,
I'm in doubt about the possibility of a configuration with multiple store magento.
I will explain my business:
I have a online store selling jewelry.
What I need:
I want to create micro franchise scheme to expand my shop
I want to provide a copy of my partner shop:
Different domain
Same products
Receive different paypal account
The seller will only see a list of your customers (independent customers)
The seller will only see a list of their requests (requests independent)
The main shop can see everything (requests, customers)
Is that possible?
Is there any technical procedure?
Is there any extension that makes it work so simple in creation of additional stores?
Please help me on how I can do this.
I have interest in hiring the service of realizing this project.
Thank you all!
Rodrigo Rodrigues (rodrigopantaneiro # gmail)
Brazil
This is totally possible and easy enough to do with the multi-store and store front views.. You will need to edit the httpd.conf file for your domain problem Magento Multiple Store and Views
then the login to the admin area for the sellers would be set to only view their customers/items etc. via the roles and permissions on the system.
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We are looking in Magento having the option to integrate the Fedex account based on the user location. We want to use the two Fedex account in our Magento store.
Can any one give some solution for this?
At my company we ran into a similar problem: provide shipping rates through two different FedEx accounts based on the country of origin.
My solution was something along the lines of:
Create a module to extend Mage_Usa_Model_Shipping_Carrier_Fedex.
Add the account information for the second FedEx account through the system.xml of the new module.
Rewrite the setRequest model to load the relevant account data based on whatever criteria you wanted to apply.
That way the calls were directed to specific accounts and were transparent to both the front and back-end users.
I hope this helps.
#Kalvin Klien Here is the repo for the sample code: https://viribus.kilnhg.com/Code/Repositories/Public/Fedex-Alt
The code is not complete and is just to demonstrate how to extend the model and create the secondary configuration data. You will need to create the name space/module to let Magento know that are you extending Mage_Usa_Model_Shipping_Carrier_Abstract.
Here is the problem:
I have multiple suppliers of physical goods, each with their own bank account.
A user is able to order items from multiple suppliers in the same cart.
The payment from the user for each item needs to go into the relevant supplier's bank account - these transtactions will be handled by multiple separate Braintree accounts.
Is it possible to achieve this with Magento Enterprise Edition?
I was looking at a similar thread (https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/6974/split-order-into-seperate-orders-and-calculate-shipping-seperately-with-ups-and) which is dealing with the shipping side of this problem but I am not sure if it can be adapted to also work with the payments?
Thanks for any help!
I work for a web store selling fashion accessories, and they have one store front for their national site and another for international customers (without VAT).
Occasionally we get customers who order items in the national store because they are on sale and then check out in the international store (by changing store fronts with the standard store front switcher in magento).
If you go directly to the international site via URL, you get an empty shopping cart, but if you use the store front switcher the cart can persist with products from the other store that are not normally available in the international store. Does anyone know how to completely separate these, or empty the cart when switching store fronts?
Well If you create separate website with a single magento setup then customer will not be shared.
This also means that both sites will be independent of each other from customers perspective.
Can you confirm whether your stores are created as different website or same website but different stores.
In admin, System >> Configuration >> Web >> Session Validation Settings,
set Use SID on Frontend to No.
But this will also logout customers coming from different store.
I have implemented many multi site implementations in the past, so I get how to set up the environment. What I haven't done, is set up multiple websites that can share the same cart session.
So if you are on site1.com and add something to your cart or are logged on, when you go to site2.com you are logged in and have the same items in your cart.
From what I read around the forums, well there isn't much about the best way to share session. But I do know that using the configuration to enable SID on the frontend will pass the session id if you transfer between sites. I figured this is all you need to have, but I see where people are saying that only stores can share checkout sessions and that stores can have their own domain.
I am thinking the best way to do this is to setup multiple websites not one website multiple stores and then just make sure when linking to the other site, I use proper magento url methods to build out the link and it will pass over the SID and the users session will be transferred over.
Is this the preferred way to do this? Is there anything I need to know in terms of configuration? Is there any negatives doing it this? Is there a better way?,
Well if you want to have such possibility only for logged customers then i propose to you to use sales_flat_quote table which is represented by Mage::getModel('sales/quote').
With this model you can manage cart and focus only in passing customer identifier which would bring us to security subject... How would you pass customer identifier in secure way as SID isn't very secure.
Plus SEO doesn't like SID in URL from what i've heard.
I have no doubt magento can handle multiple stores, but I was wondering if each stores can handle with such specific user wherein they can access their catalog, sales, inventory, etc like administrator, but limited only on their specific store.
Here's my sample representation:
Magento website:
->Store Categories
-->Store1
--->Product Categories
----->Products
--->Store Owner -------- Who can logged in the backend to see all their products, sales, inventory, etc.. Only
access their store.
-->Store2
--->Product Categories
----->Products
--->Store Owner2 ------ Who can logged in the backend to see all their products, sales, inventory, etc.. Only
access their store.
No, Magento is not built to allow different vendors to have access only to their information. I believe that Enterprise tries to add some of this functionality, but do not rely on the system keeping everything separate.
Notably, even if the products can be hacked, there is no such system of permissions for attributes, or attribute sets. If one owner deletes an attribute set, the store for the other owner will be affected. Similarly, the category manager has the same issue. Order management in the backend is in the same place.
Maybe not the answer you wanted, but hopefully that helps.
Thanks,
Joe
Not at the Community Edition.
The Enterprise Edition allows you to set that kind of roles.