One store, multiple physical locations to promote

  • Hi everyone

    Firstly, I’d like to thank you in advance for all your help and to apologise if I have created this topic in the wrong forum.

    I am looking for help with how to set up an ecommerce store in a particular way.

    This site offers products for sale to end-users, which are then shipped to a local store/organisation (local partner) for the customer to then collect from.

    The whole point of this arrangement is to support and promote the local partner business through our site.

    There is only one set of products, sold by us and then shipped out to the relevant local partner. This means that multivendor plugins like Dokan and WCFM can’t really help me.

    On the website, I’d like the customer to have to select which local partner they will collect from prior to checkout. Either as the first step before reaching the product listings, or at some point during the shopping process. But definitely before getting to/completing the checkout.

    It would also be great if the woocommerce pages dynamically had the selected local partner’s branding at the top (like a facebook-style banner and logo,) and business details in a side bar.

    To help, I’m imagining the following.

    1. The location selection map from “Super Store Finder” Plugin (or similar)
    2. The vendor-specific store page/s from “WCFM Marketplace”
    3. Front end management and reports from “WCFM Marketplace”

    I’m hoping that there is plugin/s that will help me with these things, but I have reached the limit of my search ability. (I honestly don’t know what search terms to use anymore!)

    Can anyone offer me any advice?

    Thanks again

    Dan

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • I gather from what you said that you only have a few locations… I’d just create pages for your three locations and put a drop-down menu with those locations pointing to the proper location pages.

    That will get you started and you can fancy things up as you explore options and location/geo plugins…

    Thread Starter dsegelov

    (@dsegelov)

    Thanks for the feedback.

    Actually, we currently have more than 200 locations and are working towards 1000 by the end of the year.

    We’re currently using a multi-store setup where each location (partner) has a site on the network, but it’s so unwieldy and just one mistake in synchronising the stock across that many sites will result in weeks of work in fixing it for each site!

    This is why I’m looking for a solution where there is only one store, and multiple pickup locations.

    If I can just add each vendor’s details as a user (with user role: vendor?) but only have to manage one product list, that would be awesome!

    Thanks

    Dan

    Hi Dan,

    I have the same issue too, how you solve the situation? do you mind share?!

    thanks

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