+1 Current OFBiz ecommerce is for single product store running the website, a market place website is a product store delegates many stores. So the whole set of ShoppingList/Item, OrderHeader/Item, OrderAssoc, Shipment, Return/Refund has to be changed accordingly.
In China, a typical procedure is: 1. Customer adds products from stores into shopping list 2. Customer selects shopping list items to check out 3. Marketplace generates an original order and splits the order to a set of orders for each store to reduce the QOH/QTP or lock the inventory if necessary 4. Customer pays the original order to the market place 5. Marketplace changes the whole set of orders to approved status 6. Each store ships its own orders separately 7. Return: 7.1 Customer returns a product to the store directly 7.2 Store approves the return 7.3 Maketplace refunds the customer * For VIP customer, 7.3 would be 7.2, 7.2 be 7.3 8. The payment from marketplace to store may have a term 9. The marketplace commission is from 0% to 15% Kind Regards, Shi Jinghai -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Rishi Solanki [mailto:rishisolan...@gmail.com] 发送时间: 2018年11月13日 20:36 收件人: dev@ofbiz.apache.org 主题: OFBiz as Marketplace 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
