Many Stores, Many Admins, 1 Cart

Hi,

I am in need of something I don't think exists...

I need to have multiple stores- each store having it's own inventory, its own admin, it's own everything-- except the cart. I need control of the shopping cart.

I don't care if this is in multiple installations, or 1 installation-- I know there are some "multiple store mods" but they seem to have only 1 admin for the whole thing, rather than sep. admins for each store.

To further clarify what I need these admins to be allowed to do:

1. Add/modify/delete products
2. Be able to see and process orders

I'll be doing everything else.

Does anyone have any ideas? Any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks,

Phil

PS I'm not a programmer, but I'm not afraid to dig into code, or do server/sql stuff.

There is a multi store mod. I haven't installed it yet, but I plan to. It will work off of one database, but I understand that it lets yu change the content of each site on it's own. Search the forum for Multi store.

JP

Another idea is:

All domains have to be on one server. A web host reseller account would be perfect for that. Check with the certified host to see if anyone has one. I think Camelot hosting has a reseller account now.

A reseller account will allow you to have as many domain names as you want as long as you don't go over the allocated space for the reseller account.

Now once all the domains are setup on the server, you can use the same configure.php file to access one database for all the domains. You can have as many admin's as you want.

now the problem is when you want different content on each site. One way I think you can do this is changing configure.php file to also connect to a database for each individual domain name. But then you have to change the table prefix for all the fields except the category and product fields, this would be in the database of the individual domains, not the main domain with the database with the products and categories.

You would also have to change the core code to use the main database for products and categories, and all other content can be pulled from the individual domain's database.

Does this make sense?

JP

birdoasis,

Thanks for the info. The multi-store thing doesn't fit my needs.

After some more research and thought, I think I was thinking it wrong. What I really need is one store with several admins that can manage thier own products/orders.

Phil

I'm looking for an addon that will enable me to assign a several admins for my store and I may have to limit their access for some of them to a certain locations! Do we have that here?

alhakeem2001:

I'm looking for an addon that will enable me to assign a several admins for my store and I may have to limit their access for some of them to a certain locations! Do we have that here?

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_41&products_id=86

The admin profiles mod will allow you to set permissions on what menu items are available to admins.

OK, after installing the admin profile i can't access my admin side! I'm getting this message :
Sorry, your security clearance does not allow you to access this resource.
Please contact your site administrator if you believe this to be incorrect.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

what should I do now ?:shocking:

I needed exactly what you did. In short I wanted several stores and my main one. All the other stores would have their own admin and i would have mine. Also the cart would be the same for all of them and when a customer logs into my shop or creates an account they are registered and logged in to the others without having to register with them all seperatly.

I couldn't find anything like this so decided to have a crack at it myself and it worked. The only problem isthat I changed a hell of alot of stuff in several locations and can't remember what. I would have posted it and shown others how to do it but I can't remember how. The only thing is that when I create a new shop there is a few bits of code to be implemented so that customer info is transfered to relevent databases automatically. Sorry I can't help but atleast you know it's possible. If you need any specific help í will help if i can.