Thank you Jacopo for detailed reply. It is like roadmap for implementation with questions may come during implementation. Thanks Pritam, Devanshu for help offer.
I have similar line of items in my mind before proceeding with the idea with some additional concerns on how to proceed below; - We have two options to go with, add marketplace operator features to ordermgr, seller profiles to partymgr and customer facing to ecommerce. Alternatively, I preferred to add separate plugin which extends these applications and have its own functionality. Which also take care of any impact on base applications. - By adding separate plugin we will have free hand to incorporate the marketplace specific features. Like you said that, drop ship flow is near to what marketplace requires. But in my experience I see marketplace optionally owns the shipment from sellers to customers using third party support. On the whole I would like to propose separate plugin and once we are okay with separate plugin or inject features in existing ordermgr, partymgr and ecommerce application then we can start writing user stories to take community feedback. I completely agree on the fact we have gaps but we have most building blocks in place to achieve this. Please let me know your opinion on having separate plugin. Also looking forward to see opinion from community, so that we can move with better plan to execute. Best Regards, -- Rishi Solanki Sr Manager, Enterprise Software Development HotWax Systems Pvt. Ltd. Direct: +91-9893287847 http://www.hotwaxsystems.com www.hotwax.co On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:52 PM Jacopo Cappellato < jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > Hi Rishi, > > this is an interesting initiative, thank you. > There are various types of online marketplaces, each with unique and > significant requirements, but if we focus on the ones like Amazon (since > you have mentioned it) then we the following notes may apply pretty well. > > Main actors: > * the marketplace operator: it owns the site (e.g. Amazon) > * consumers: browse the content of the site and place (sales) orders to the > marketplace operator > * retailers/wholesalers/sellers: define price (and cost to the marketplace > operator), shipping options and shipping cost > > Main transactions (drop shipment scenario): > 0) seller publishes product price with shipping costs (for the consumer) > and product cost (for the > 1) consumers orders product (from the retailer) to the marketplace operator > 2) marketplace operator orders product to the retailer > 3) retailer fulfills the order (#2) that is shipped to the consumer > 4) marketplace operator invoices the order (#1) to the consumer > 5) consumer pays the invoice (#4) > 6) retailer invoices the order (#2) to the marketplace operator > 7) marketplace operator pays the invoice (#6) > > These online marketplaces often have one global product catalog and global > products, to which the retailers' specific prices and shipping options are > attached. > > In OFBiz the "drop shipment" workflow is probably the one that most closely > covers the scenario described above. > > As regards the data model: > * Product, ProductContent, ProductCategory etc..: global products and the > global catalog > * ProductPrice, SupplierProduct: the price for the consumer and the cost > for the marketplace operator > * PartyRole: "end user customer" (for the consumer), "supplier" (for the > retailer), "internal organization" (for the marketplace operator) > > There are gaps that needs to be implemented (both in the data model and in > the business logic) and there are many more requirements and nuances to be > discovered but we have most of the building blocks in place. > Some of the outstanding gaps are for example: how to apply the right sales > price when the consumer selects a product from one of its many retailers; > how to specify the retailer in the sales order; how to reserve the > inventory of the retailer. > > Kind regards, > > Jacopo > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 6:06 PM Rishi Solanki <rishisolan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Devs, > > While shopping with different marketplaces like amazon the idea came into > > my mind that, what are the things required to have an marketplace plugin > > within the OFBiz same as we have ecommerce. > > > > Which behaves same as ecommerce but also offers sellers to sale their > > products on marketplace. I could think of following workflow; > > > > 1) Sellers can upload their product, images, prices with all the required > > details. > > 2) The same product can be sale by other sellers as well. > > 3) An customer can purchase the product from any listed sellers at > > ecommerce side. > > 4) Manage the product inventory by sellers. > > 5) Shipment tracking. > > 6) Manage/Create seller profile. > > 7) Commission Engine marketplace run and payment made to sellers. > > 8) Manage product details as per seller preferences. > > 9) Seller specific reports and other tasks. > > 10) Manage Orders, Returns and related reports etc. > > 11) Marketing Campaign setup. > > > > Here I'm sharing the idea what comes in my mind, and it would be great to > > have this as plugin in OFBiz which support the marketplace business > problem > > and increase the OFBiz acceptance in market. > > > > Any suggestion and help in designing, structuring, modeling, coding, > > architecture is greatly appreciated. I wonder if anyone already > implemented > > one using OFBiz. > > > > If all are agree to have this, then I'll start documentation around it > and > > move from there. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Best Regards, > > -- > > Rishi Solanki > > Sr Manager, Enterprise Software Development > > HotWax Systems Pvt. Ltd. > > Direct: +91-9893287847 > > http://www.hotwaxsystems.com > > www.hotwax.co > > >
