Agile PrestaShop Multiple Seller/vendor module

Payment collection mode
There are 3 payment collection mode (determine who will collect sale money from customer?)

• 1. Store owner collects payment - This is by default. All sellers/vendors share the same payment method, store owner collect money, then distribute sales deducted transactions fees(seller commission) to secondary sellers based on the contracts between.
• 2. Seller collects payment - Seller collects their own sales money directly from customer. Seller/vendors will pay commission/transactions fee to store owner by other means.

        At this mode, you can only use following payment module

        Agile PrestaShop Paypal Express Checkout module (addons-modules.com)

        Agile PrestaShop Pyapal Adaptive Payment module (addons-modules.com)

        Agile PrestaShop Google Checkout module (addons-modules.com)

        Agile PrestaShop Bank Transger (addons-modules.com)

        Cash On Deliery (PrestaShop original module)

• 3. Both seller and store collect payments - This is only available when you Agile Paypal Adaptive Payment (Parallel or Chained payment). Customer payment will go to Seller (sales) and Store (Commission) directly.[New available from 2012.02.26]

 Note:

At Both Seller and Store collect payment mode is available only when you use Agile Paypal Adaptive(Parallel or Chained) Payments. We recommend you use Agile PrestaShop Adaptive Payment module, because it supports parallel payments and chained payments. So seller and store can receive payments at the same time when customer payment is finished.

See here for more details on Agile Paypal Adaptive Payment module

You will need a accessory module Agile Seller Commission to manage transaction fees (commissions). This module allows you set different transaction fee for different seller, it calculates transaction fee automatically. It also keeps records of sales and transaction fees history and account balances. It handles payments between seller and store owners.

For more detailed information, please see here  

Seller Commission functions

Seller commsions is handled by seperated accessory module - Agile PrestaShop seller commission module. See more information at Accessory modules section or pleae refer here of detailed informaiton

Seller Account Management

• Admin can register sellers/vendors at back office directly
• Sellers/vendors can also sign up from front store - This is configurable at module screen to enable this function or not
• Sellers/vendors can have their own logo, address, payment account information
• Seller/vendors can update/change their own seller/vendor account information
• Admin has control of enable or disable sellers account from back office.
• Sellers/vendors priva categories or products will be disabled automatically if the account is disabled/deleted
• Seller can automatically login to back office if he/she is asigned up from front office and also has customer account and has logged in at front office. There is a link from My Seller Account page at front office.
  
• Enable HTML editor for seller info description fields.
• Seller account approval requirement (sign up front store) is now if configurable
• Seller can manage their own payment account information such as Paypal account, Bank Account information
  

Catalog management

• Sellers/vendors can have their own private categories - configurable at module screen to enable this or not
• Sellers/vendors can use shared/public categories created by store admin- but sellers is not bale to change shared/public categories.
• Sellers/vendors can register unlimited products to shared categories or to their private categories
• Admin can also register categories for seller/vendors and then assign to specific sellers/vendors
• Admin can also register products for sellers/vendors and then assign to specific sellers/vendors
• Admin can register shared/public categories for all sellers to use

Product Listing

• Seller info can be added as new tab to the product listing page
• Seller location is linked to Google map
• Is configurable to show the seller info tab or not

• Listing product approval feature is implemented and it is configurable at module configure screen. You can easily enable and disable listing approval function. (since 2012.02.28)

• You can set for Option listing charges though accessory module(see below Accessory Modules section) 

Order management

• Admin can access/update all orders
• There are two shopping cart mode - configurable
  

Products from multiple seller - One order can have unlimited products from different sellers

Products from single seller - One order can have unlimted products  from one seller only

• Each seller/vendor will receive new order email notification automatically if new order is received.
• Sellers/vendors can only access their own orders related data
• Sellers/vendors can update their own orders

   - Order list/order details
   - Customer
   - Address
   

Shipping/carrier management

• Sellers/vendors can set their private carriers and shipping fee
• Store Admin can set public carriers/shipping fee that can be used for all sellers.
• Handling/Billing setting is at store level, only store admin can change.

   Handling charges
   Free shipping starts at
   According to total price or According to total weight

Note:

In order to use feature list in this section, you must set Shopping cart mode at "Products from sinle seller", otherwise even sellers set private carriers/shipping fees, it will be dealed as public because we can not tell which seller should we use for a shopping cart with mixed sellers.

Customer and seller communication

This function is proviced by a separated accessory module - Agile PrestaShop Seller messenger module.

Customer is able to ask sellers question at front office product page and seller or admin is able to manage questions and reply questions at back office tab. Configurable parameters make the module flexible. See more details please visit the prouct page

Sellers/vendor Access permissions

• Sellers/vendors access permission is controlled by PrestaShop Employee profile - Permissions tab
• Sellers/vendors can edit/update their own data such as seller account, catalog, customer data, order data and so on.
• By default, Secondary sellers/vendors can view the following information

    - Shared categories
    - Manufacturers
    - Suppliers
    - Manufacturers
    - Groups
    - Merchandise Returns
    - Customer Messages
    - Statuses
    - PDF

• Admin can set more access permissions based on their needs and situation.
• Seller/vendors can create and maintain their own CMS pages[ready]

• Hide products from other sellers in order alert email sent to seller and display a notes
• Hide products from other sellers in order detailed page at back office if current logged in is a seller.
• Hide products from other sellers in PDF invoice at back office if current logged in is a seller.
• Display following message in above 3 "This order contains products from other sellers, they are hidden from you. But they they are visible to admin and your customer."
• Enable HTML editor for seller info description fields.

Accessory modules

Based on your business needs and business model, there are few accessory modules available for you to enhance your multiple seller/vendor Prestashop, to create your own market places.

1. Seller Commission module (Since Nov. 25, 2011)

With this new version, you have an option to use seller commission module(separated module) so that you can manage commission calculations and commission payments. It give you a great flexibility to set different level of commission for different sellers.

• Set different level of commissions rate

• Commission calculation
• Seller account history
• Seller account balance
• Commission payments

• - Vouchers cost at sellers or vouchers cost at store

• Insertions fee calcuation to include shipping fee or exclude shippinh fee

  

See here for more details about Agile Seller Commission

2. Seller/vendor rating/review module

With this accessory module, you can

- allow customer post reviews/ratings on seller for the order/transactions

- show seller rating by 5 stars on product details page at front store

See more detailed information, please visit here

3. Seller products module

With this module, you will be able to allow customer to shop/search products

- By seller

- By country

 - Each seller can have his/her own products pages

See here for more details

4. Seller list options module

With this module, you will be able to charge seller by listing options. You can set additional different price (could be 0 for free) for follow list options

- Base list (need to paid before list)

- Show at HOME (Paid Home featured product list)

- Show as HOT (Paid option to show as HOT)

- Show on TOP of list(category)

 Seller must be pay before the options become in effect. Seller is able to pay by any payment merhod that are available at your store. See here for more details

5. Integrated payemnt modules

All following modules have been integrated into Agile Multiple Seller module, they can be used for  payment collection mode at "seller collects payment".

Agile Paypal Adaptive(Parallel or Chained)Payment module

If you are using Paypal as Payment method, then this module use Paypal adaptive parallel/chained payments so that the store and seller can collect sales/money concurrently. Seller receives sales and store receive commission from seller automatically when customer payment is finshed.

This module supports all 3 payment collection mode of agile multiple seller: Store collects payment, seller collects payments and both store and seller collect payment(split, chanined).

See here for more details

The following module support both "store collects payments" and "seller collects payment" mode

Agile Paypal Adaptive(Parallel or Chained)Payment module

Agile Paypal Express Checkout module 

Agile Bankwire module

Agile Google Checkout module

Cash On Delivery module (comes with prestashop)



6. Customer and seller comminication tool

- Agile PrestaShop Seller Messenger module

It facilitates communications between customers and sellers. A Seller Q&A tab on front store for customers to see previous questions and ask new questions. A "Seller Questions" tab at back office allow sellers and admin to reply and manage the messages. See more details, please visit here.

Update Logs

Ver 1.2
- No manually file change is required at installation.
- Integrated with Agile paypal, make it possible for seller to collect their own sales
- Disable all products when a seller is disabled or deleted
- Seller can have their own categories
- Seller info extend - photo (logo), address other info
- Seller can create and maintain their own CMS pages
- Able to show seller info & Google map as a tab on product details page
- Admin is able to register categories/products for seller, then assign it to seller

1.2.2
- Some changes on configuration screen
- Seller collects sales, cart items contorl now support both ajaxCart and non ajaxCart[done]
- filtering out products list for Autocomplete input box -  ajax_product_list.php
- fltering out the category list at product detail page for set product category/default category

1.2.3
- fixed an issue with Customer Message (seller filtering was not working)
- fixed an potential security issue(when seller manually input id_order at URL to see other sellers orders)
- fixed label/message translation issue

1.2.4 - 2011.10.08
- product listing expiry date(like ebay), it will be disabled automatically when it goes expried.
- seller can direct go to back office from front office My-Account page.
  (It is available when "Allow customer becomes seller" is eanbled)

1.2.5 - 2011.11.05
- Hide products from other sellers in order alert email sent to seller and display a notes
- Hide products from other sellers in order detailed page at back office if current logged in is a seller.
- Hide products from other sellers in PDF invoice at back office if current logged in is a seller.
- Display following message in above 3 "This order contains products from other sellers, they are hidden from you. But they they are visible to admin and your customer."
- Enable HTML editor for seller info description fields.
- Fix the duplication display of customer in customer "Tab"
- Moved the "Seller Info" tab from "Employees" tab to "Customers" tab in back office.


1.3.0 - 2011.11.05
- Integration with seller commission module
- If customer sign up a seller account from front office, the seller account is initially inactive.
   Admin has to activate the seller account.


With this version, you have an option to use seller commission module(separated module) so that you can manage commissions calculations and commission payments. It give a great flexibility to set different level of commission for different sellers.


1.4.0 - 2012.01.21
 - Limit one cart only allow products from the same seller
 - Each seller is able to set his/her shipping
 - Order is no longer shared by different sellers.


1.4.1 - 2012.02.04
- Integration of Seller List options module
  Show as HOT option
  Show on HOME option
  Show on TOP of the list(category)
- remove expiry date of product. It is implemented by listing option module

1.4.1.2 - 2012.02.17
- Make it configurable for the approval requirement when Seller signup from front office

1.4.1.3 - 2012.02.28
- Integrated with Agile PresteShop Paypal Adaptive payment, now can handle commission payement automatically without manually perform any payment.

- Listing product approval feature is implemented and it is configurable at module configure screen. You can easily enable and disable listing approval function.

 1.4.6 - 2012.03.22
- Merged Seller Info tab (back office) into Employees tab so that manage seller's other info and payment info are in in one tab.
- Seller can set Bank Account information for receiving bank transfer payment
- Integrated Bank transfer payment method, so that "Seller Collect payments" is available for bank transfer(Must use customized Agile Bank Transfer module)
- It also make it available for "Seller Collect payments" available Cash On Delivery (PrestaShop original Cash On Delivery module)
- Send all new order to store admin (send to Shop Email)