• Firstly, I will explain more details about my website. So, you can easily understand what I am looking for.

    There are many products and multi shipping vendors. For example

    These are all processes. But it can manually do it outside the website in some processes, if there are no website features.
    Product 1 – product type A – design by M – produced by X, or Y – shipped by producer or admin’s shipping
    Product 2 – product type A – design by N – produced by X, or Y – shipped by producer or admin’s shipping
    Product 3 – product type B – design by N – produced by Z – shipped by producer or admin’s shipping
    Product 4 – product type C – design by O – produced by X, or Z – shipped by producer or admin’s shipping
    **Producer can produce items depending on product type

    I have learned many plugins and come up with these processes.
    1. “product type” is not necessary —> I can add the same product for multi-vendor
    2.1 “design by” can manually calculate commission outside the website and the admin will take responsibility for adding the product via CSV.
    2.2 Or, it can be “author by” if there is an author page. Unfortunately, now I cannot find a way to represent the author page and import the author name in the CSV.
    2.3 Or, it can be a “vendor” which uses a membership or specific commission based on vendors, so the designer can add products by themselves.
    3. “produced by” can use the same product multi-vendor feature by adding existing products. Also the shipping can be set by each vendor. Admin’s shipping is not necessary for now.

    Lowest process
    Product 1 – produced by X, or Y – shipped by producer
    Product 2 – produced by X, or Y – shipped by producer
    Product 3 – produced by Z – shipped by producer
    Product 4 – produced by X, or Z – shipped by producer

    The most important feature is how admin and/or vendors can easily and quickly add new products.

    Add by vendor — How does each vendor add the existing products to their store? From your document, they can add by choosing one-by-one at the front page. It is very difficult to add new products. And in the back page, it can be bulk added, however, there are 2 main problems. First, it is hard to select the product because there are many product types and it has only one filter (by product category). I think it may use filter by shipping class or attributes instead of product type. Second problem is the duplicated product. When I add product for the first time, it will disappear from add to store page, but when another vendor add it later. When I come back again, it occurs the product sold by another vendor. And I can add this product again. The product page show 3 vendors including me 2 times and another vendor 1 time.

    Add by admin — How does admin add the existing products to their store? From your document, they can add/edit products by choosing only one vendor. Is it possible to add product and multi vendors at the same time via CSV?

    Could you please explain your WCFM product and suggest some ideas? Thank you very much in advance.

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