wncmacs,

I'm responding to your email in the forum just in case someone else can benefit from this discussion

Quote Originally Posted by wncmacs
I'd like to be notified if you do move forward with your multiple vendors - one storefront solution for Zen Cart as it would be ideal for my current problem with my farmer's cooperative.

Since you feel Multisite is not a good solution, would it be best for me to set up each farmer as a category in the Zen Cart? One thing Multisite would allow me to do is have different-looking storefronts for each farmer's products within the cooperative.

I need something that is fairly easy to set up. I can get my hands dirty with the code, but for the money they are spending for this store, I don't need to spend an inordinate amount of time getting it going.

Thank you again for your response to my questions.

"wncmacs"
Yes, you could definitely set up each farmer with his own category and then assign that category to his own store. MS requires that you, as administrator, handle the "back-end" - especially as far as the product entry goes.

I think you might be able to pull this off depending on exactly what you want your farmers to be able to do...and how much you can trust them not to muck things up. You might be able to use the mod "Admin profiles" to let them enter their products if you believe they can be trusted. (I haven't used this mod myself....just thinking of using it as a jumping off point for our own development). You CAN change the email address for the orders so that each farmer would get the notification of the sale.

Basically, keep this point in mind, the power of MS is that ANY configuration setting that you can set within ZC's admin can be over-written via the site_config files.