blucollarguy 23rd April 2006 04:44 PM
I am the author of MVS(Multi-Vendor Shipping) for osC, and was wondering if you guys would consider adding more in depth support for Vendors. MVS was originally designed to enable me to work with dropshipping much better(ie. more accurate shipping, product price/quantity tracking and things of that nature). It has become used for more, more accurate inventory management, the ability to ship from multiple warehouses, and many other features I am working on myself. My efforts are to create a very well designed and proper cart that can truly handle dropshipping, or multiple location businesses, with ease.
If the Zen team were interested, I would be more inclined to make the switch myself, and continue with the developement as well.
Just a few thoughts, hope I have been clear enough, Craig :)
wilt 23rd April 2006 06:02 PM
Hi,
It depends on exactly what additions are required to the core code, we are always open to suggestion.
You should look at some of the options the codebase already adds, that allow you to write code wich has a minimal effect on core code.
More specifiacally, the product type system, overrides and the new observer/notifier system.
If you could be a little moe specific :)
Scheme138 29th April 2006 05:05 PM
multi vendor support is the 1 thing keeping me from coming back to zen-cart. I will be back in an instant if this gets added!
blucollarguy 29th April 2006 06:02 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by wilt@Apr 23 2006, 10:02 PM
Hi,
It depends on exactly what additions are required to the core code, we are always open to suggestion.
You should look at some of the options the codebase already adds, that allow you to write code wich has a minimal effect on core code.
More specifiacally, the product type system, overrides and the new observer/notifier system.
If you could be a little moe specific :)
The key difference is the ability set different "ship from" locations in order to get proper shipping quotes during checkout, the ability to assign specific shipping modules to each Vendor's products, and of course the management of the Vendors products, sortable by the Vendor(order management, order fulfillment, etc.). This is what MVS(Multi-Vendor Shipping) does for osC now, that's how I wrote it, but it is nearly a complete re-write of the checkout process, sorting products by Vendor, and then offering the shipping choices for that particular Vendor's products. One can also think of this as a multi-warehouseing script, with products that might only be available from certain locations(warehouses) around the country(or the world for that matter) and price shipping accordingly.
I am sure that I can add my own script to Zen, but I would really like to see more done with whole idea of Vendor support. I have become very comfortable working with osC, and am not sure I am prepared to learn an entirely new code base just to switch to a cart I have already created myself(my own osC package has pretty much all the features of Zen and Cre, and some of the Vendor support about which I am writing).
Soooo, I have been hoping that a team would tackle the Vendor support issue, and we could all benefit.
Hope this was a bit more clear, I can also offer a link to a demo of the package I referenced for you to look see, PM only, still in very beta mode.
Craig :)
drillsar 6th May 2006 08:52 PM
I love to see that to..
Merlinpa1969 6th May 2006 10:30 PM
blue collar,
You may have a cart with a few mods that resemble zen but you dont have anything close to zen....
sorry had to point that out, now to the vendor support,
there is a start is called vendor zen
there is also a shipping module for multiple dropshipper
drillsar 7th May 2006 01:10 AM
there is also a shipping module for multiple dropshipper
Where is that? I did a search found nothing...
blucollarguy 7th May 2006 08:23 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Merlinpa1969@May 7 2006, 02:30 AM
blue collar,
You may have a cart with a few mods that resemble zen but you dont have anything close to zen....
sorry had to point that out, now to the vendor support,
there is a start is called vendor zen
there is also a shipping module for multiple dropshipper
I didn't claim to have a cart that had anything more than most of the features that Zen already has(Cre also). My point was that if I have already done that much work to create a cart with the most of the same features, it would not be to my best interest to start over in order to use Zen. Though I do like the direction Zen is going, it would be a lot of work to switch.
I don't in any way claim to have a cart as well built as Zen, I'm not that good a coder myself to do as well as the Zen team has done.
And I haven't seen any mods for Zen that can do what MVS does, NONE.
Please post the links if there are some.
I will gladly look into it.
Craig :)
drillsar 7th May 2006 03:26 PM
I agree MVS is great and thats why I havent switched to zencart for this reason. Im hoping someone either creates a mod like MVS or zencart team adds it in.
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