Using multisite to connect multiple shops to one database

  • I hope the topic title explained my query in one line. Anyway, I’m going to explain a bit better here. I have a client who is asking for 3 e-commerce (online shop) websites that can be connected to one stock inventory database. I thought of WP multisite straight away as I understand you can manage several websites from one WP installation.

    However, I’ve never done a multisite installation before – so I’m a noob to this area. The client wants one central stock inventory for the 3 sites. Say there are 50 items of stock available for one product (that is available for sale on multiple websites) – basically if customer A bought something from website A – then when customer B goes to website B – they will see that there are only 49 items of stock in the inventory for the same product. So basically there is one database for stock control for all the websites.

    Hope that’s clear enough to understand – I’m still trying to get my whole head around it. Would a WordPress multisite be the right solution for this?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    I don’t think so, since mUltisite segregates the site content in tables, and you’d want all the data … Shared.

    Thread Starter rarcher30

    (@rarcher30)

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge @ipstenu.

    Just wondering if using WordPress would be a good solution for this. As the data isn’t shared – is this more of a specialist application (i.e. Magento or similar?)…..

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