Magento

I have a website that sells arts and crafts.  I have a few dozen individual manufacturers of crafts and I want them to have their own login based interface to publish Items to a \’marketplace\’ area of my website.

so if I am one of the craft manufacturers, I would login to my private interface and publish a half dozen or so items and they would go into the markeplace section with the other sellers items.  Sort of like ebay.

Does Magento have a plugin for this?

thanks!

I have the same question.
Does anyone have a solution how to achieve this?

I am a php coder and I am also looking for it.

From my search upto now,it seems that it has not been made till now.

I am planning to make it myself.

If there is “any” such already ,it would be great.(wont need to make it again)

thank you.

That funcitonallity is only possible in Magento Enterprise edition.

I have been looking for a way to create a marketplace but I don’t think any shopping cart supplies this facility. It seems like a large number of people seem to require this feature.

Maybe it might be doable to create a multi backends one shop system to almost bodge it but I dont have that much experience in these things.

The very best of luck to the person who figures this out.

Thank,
Matt

Ok i have found this
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/11528/

and this seem to be what we are looking for

problems are
price more than 300$
the developer seems to have abandoned the project,no latest developments(updates) in the module

Maybe this extension may be of help to you http://www.unirgy.com/products/udropship/. It has the multivendor feature as an add-on.

screwhead - 15 January 2011 05:51 AM

Maybe this extension may be of help to you http://www.unirgy.com/products/udropship/. It has the multivendor feature as an add-on.

first thing it seems to be add on of that 950$ pack
which makes it very expensive

more over it says this
If MicroSite add-on is installed, and multiple vendors are associated with the same product, only 1 vendor can edit the product info.

which makes it useless for 290$ extra

I find a module that seems to do the job for a reasonable price.
http://www.aitoc.com/en/magentomods_advanced_permissions.html
Has anyone experienced this?

Kattoo

Hello All,

We have developed multi-vendor/multi-seller product in opencart.

Have a look its demo : http://www.kodemall.com/index.php?route=common/demoSelector

Thanks and Best Regards
http://www.kodemall.com

Makrketplace module will help for sure . Please have a look at the demo

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/marketplace-9800.html

Our solution can help with this:

nChannel has the ability to upload item data via flat file to the nChannel platform. From that point either the manufacturer could get nChannel access and “merchandise” the items (match images to skus, etc.) and “push” the data to Magento (the marketplace).  The other option would be to have the website owner (the marketplace that sells arts & crafts), “merchandise” the data in nChannel and then select what items they want to “push” to Magento.

Another option would be if you have RMS or GP, that the manufacturer could push what items they want to have on the marketplace
out of RMS or GP (from their item master) to nChannel, and then subsequently to Magento.

Hope that helps.

Darren
nChannel
info@nChannel.com

We have a simpler solution for this, we use an external product manager which has categories of the artist, they can log in and create as many products as they want in a single screen interface only seeing their data. The products are automatically loaded to Magento via the API, and has an approval process if necessary. We are just implementing an art site for this exact scenario for a customer so that artists can upload their work directly.

Magento is not designed to handle restricted admin permissions (the Enterprise version does have this) and it is not a good idea to allow direct manipulation for security and performance reasons.