MultiSite Module Support Thread

[Hammerhead]

Hammerhead,
While you technically could use this mod, the only advantage you will get is having a single back-end interface for all three stores. You will have to "wall-off" each product set as the "mixed" concept your presenting isn't possible in the modules current state.
...If you don't care about the single backend, then just install zencart 3 times. It would be a lot easier since you're not really getting the true benefit of this mod.

Thanks for getting back to me.

I do, in fact, want one single admin panel and one consolidated catalog of the various products supplied by my various distributors so that the experience is seamless from the customer's standpoint and I don't pull my hair out trying to manage it all. Having to re-customize three installs and manage three databases is too much.

Another alternative for me (to keep it simple) would be simply a "ship by category" feature that would force certain products within certain categories to ship from a particular origin zip code and carrier. Seems there was a module out there somewhere but it looks like it disappeared, along with the site that was using it.

Per another post I made earlier today:

It would seem to me that it would be fairly simple for Zen to:
1) Add a 'supplier' or 'vendor' tables that include an ID and origin zip for each provider. Or, create a 'hidden' or 'masked' category that's not seen by the customer for this purpose.
2) Cross reference products and/or categories to those vendor ID or hidden categories.
3) On checkout, Zen looks at item, vendor and orgin zip, cross references against UPS module, returns freight charge in checkout for each item, grouping items by vendor so that stuff shipping from any given warehouse is only charged freight once.