Drop sales / drop-shipping

[popemil]

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Drop sales in Zencart seems to not even exist.

I went to FAQ and... nothing, typed into search box the key words, and nothing.

Thus the question I have is, can I configure some categories of this cart for the drop sales?

I have my own products, pay per download, and I intend to put on some products that need hard-mail shipment, but I am not the producer nor do I want to have the inventory.

The only way is to rely on the inventory of the producers, I sell for them as any front-store, and they deliver for me.

But one produces and delivers from Hon Kong, anther-one from Brazil, and one in Germany.

Each case presumes they have a domestic delivery system, a continental delivery system and an international delivery system, thus at least 3 levels of prices for shipping, but starting from different geographical locations.

Thus applying the universal tariff mono location would be disastrous, because if I am selling a product to a German client than Zencart should apply the appropriate tariff according to where the buyer will receive the goods, but also according to where from on earth is the good being shipped from.

How could I handle this issue?

On the other hand I need rapports on sales according to producer, so that I can calculate how much to pay each producer for what they shipped to my clients. I wouldn't mind if I could do this automatically in sleep.

Is there anything in Zencart that I can do to set up such way of selling stuff?

Appreciate your thoughts and input, I realize I might of brought an issue here, no harm meant.

[RescoCCC]

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...word=drop+ship