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Panmanjon · 11-01-2004 08:46:49

Hi - I'm very new to click cart pro

I need to build up a group of 10 or more shops (some with the same products) into a mall where customers can go into each shop, buy goods and make a single payment. Each shop will have deifferent delivery options (e.g. 3days for a book or delivery by selection time same day for groceries). Some shops may also have their own merchant credit card accounts and insist that customers pay them by credit card directly).

I need the search facility to cover all shops (e.g. get a list of all shops selling the same brand of baked beans)

I have implemented a simple solution by defining each different shop as a catagory but this has the obvious limitations with delivery and payment types.

Maybe the solution is buy 10 licenses but does anyone have an idea as to how these could be integrated into a mall?

Thanks in advance

Steven · 11-02-2004 04:06:42

I think having to buy 10 licenses (for 10 stores within your mall) is inevitable, as it's pretty obvious that for each store to function correctly with categories, delivery and payment options, requires it's own install of clickcartpro.

However the idea of a shopping mall should best be looked upon as a collection of stores operating under the same banner with each their own accounts and money tills, as you they would appear in a mall, rather than trying to create a single payment solution for all.

I'm currently developing my own cart, and hopefully if the model that I have developed along with thousands of dollars worth of custom modifications and time, expand and duplicate to have more than one cart offering a range of products. This idealogy is also 'creating a mall'

Therefore, I am also interested in any input anyone may wish to include here. Perhaps a single, unified payment solution is possible with many carts by the way of a special cookie. I don't think this would be too hard to implement, a bit of code that checks for the contents of the cookie, and references to the products from within the checkout process that the user is using at any one time, using links to the other stores. Does anyone follow what I am onto here?

Steven

Panmanjon · 11-09-2004 05:24:50

Hi - thanks

I am not worried about having yo purchase multiple licenses to stay legal - my conception of the solution is a problem with 10 (or more) store databases on the server with the same names and having to 'admin' 10 rather than just one - what I had hoped to achieve was a single admin task for all the stores to collect my dues etc I was also hoping that a single search would cover all stores

I thought that the way to approach this would be to expand category options to include different payment and delivery methods

Regards

webmaster · 11-11-2004 13:39:23

This is going to require 1 of 2 things:

(1) Set up 10 installs on 10 different licenses and get creative with symbolic links to share the data in the product table or use MySQL to attach to a single db with that product table only in it.

(2) Custom code a solution that ties specific categories into specific processors. I think this option may be tricky as what do you do if a customer orders things from multiple stores.

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#1 11-01-2004 08:46:49

Building A Shoppiung Mall

#2 11-02-2004 04:06:42

Re: Building A Shoppiung Mall

#3 11-09-2004 05:24:50

Re: Building A Shoppiung Mall

#4 11-11-2004 13:39:23

Re: Building A Shoppiung Mall

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