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Previously on "Etsy/Amazon type website template or packages?"

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  • courtg9000
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    I have used WordPress +Woocommerce a few times and commend the other recommendations of WordPress +Woocommerce + plugins.

    I do sound one note on your cost base. You may need to research and factor in the cost of the pro or plus versions of these plugins as you may not get everything you need with standard or lite free versions. My advice is to research and adjust business plan accordingly subject to findings.

    With that CSV import tool. It is a good tool - used it several times, you need to consider stuff that cannot be put in a CSV file ( product images, video's PDF's for example and how you will handle the process. - Do lots of testing!!
    I have developed lots of sites in WordPress (lost count) from 2-3 pagers to several hundred products and lots more functionality.
    Last edited by courtg9000; 12 January 2021, 12:05. Reason: missing important word

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    Is a tat shop the next big thing to have?
    A Simon Dolan jam shop.

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  • ladymuck
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    Is a tat shop the next big thing to have?

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by Netraider View Post
    There is a multi vendor plugin for WooCommerce. All of the Vendors share the same storefront.

    Linky
    I think NLUK wants to upload from multiple vendors to his tat shop

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  • Netraider
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    There is a multi vendor plugin for WooCommerce. All of the Vendors share the same storefront.

    Linky

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    That's an option. Each vendor will only have like max 9 products per week so could be manual to start off if the scraping method bigdata mentions is slick.

    Willing to pay for this but I've no idea what full sites cost so need to go ask around once i've got a clue and won't have my pants pulled down
    PM'd You....

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  • BigDataPro
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    That's an option. Each vendor will only have like max 9 products per week so could be manual to start off if the scraping method bigdata mentions is slick.

    Willing to pay for this but I've no idea what full sites cost so need to go ask around once i've got a clue and won't have my pants pulled down
    Just thought of an idea. Try signing up to Amazon as a seller/merchant and study what sort of interface, approach they use for uploading products. I am sure that will be an eye opener.

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
    Was the point not that multiple vendors had to be able to upload their products ? Woocommerce can't do that on it's own. There are a myriad of plugins to do this with though, but I think they're all 'paid' and the cheaper ones I've tried are tulip. He might need to go down t'bank and take some guineas out.
    That's an option. Each vendor will only have like max 9 products per week so could be manual to start off if the scraping method bigdata mentions is slick.

    Willing to pay for this but I've no idea what full sites cost so need to go ask around once i've got a clue and won't have my pants pulled down

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    Can be done quite easily with Wordpress and something like Woo Commerce, it's all about how much effort you want to put in
    Was the point not that multiple vendors had to be able to upload their products ? Woocommerce can't do that on it's own. There are a myriad of plugins to do this with though, but I think they're all 'paid' and the cheaper ones I've tried are tulip. He might need to go down t'bank and take some guineas out.

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  • BigDataPro
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    Long back I used to work in a project that did something similar to "price comparison" site for fashion industry. The general approach was,

    1. Visit the vendor's product page and identify the pattern (e.g. Title, Colour, Size, Type)
    2. Identify important searchable attributes
    3. Crawl the website product pages, dump it to DB.
    4. Use multiple IP addresses while crawling as using single IP is most likely to get blocked.

    Similar to the above, after the initial crawling, you could come up with a standard excel sheet that the vendor can populate and upload.

    By the way, these days you need to consider the cost of developing App for at least Android and iOS.

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    Can be done quite easily with Wordpress and something like Woo Commerce, it's all about how much effort you want to put in
    Yeah I'm starting to see this. I'm willing to get this done properly but got to keep an eye on the costs as it's not going to be a big cash generator for awhile. Certainly can't do everything I want off the bat.

    That CSV import thing is perfect. Each vendor will only have a few products so I need to think about the simplest way of getting them in bearing in mind these people won't be IT literate.

    A better way might actually be going to their page, picking the product and getting my page to replicate a few pieces of text from their page and have a set refresh time to pick it up again. I assume this is pretty straight forward? There must be plug in's to get and refresh data from another site?

    As all sites are different I'd want a profile for each vendor I can save and use...

    As I say, could get very complex this so need to find someone to build it that's willing to help not just churn out code. How i find someone to do that will be the basis of my next post.

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by BigDataPro View Post
    I was contemplating a similar idea couple of years ago. What I have realised is that uploading products/services through spreadsheet requires a custom plugin/development. This is because each product being uploaded have a number of different attributes. For e.g. a laptop's searchable attributes are completely different from that of a rice cooker.

    Now accommodating all these various searchable attributes via a relational database (RDBMS) is a nightmare. The appropriate DB for this use case would be a document db like MongoDB. But most of the ready made / off the shelf scripts use a RDBMS such as MySQL and PHP.

    Googling Etsy clone or Ebay clone shows plenty of ready made scripts but none provides the option you are looking for.
    The searchables are pretty simple as it will be catagoriesed rather than keyword searching. The clone search is great. Plenty of them there and now I know I'm looking for multi vendor marketplace will help as well thank you.

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    Got a bit further with those two suggestions but unsure if they are self shopping options. I'm looking for one that users can upload a spreadsheet of goods for their shop rather than me do it? Is that just a configuration of the e-commerce sites?

    Any more advice appreciated.
    Product CSV Importer and Exporter - WooCommerce Docs

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    Anyone know if there are pre-built packages for these sites where users upload their products and the user can browse them via various critera down the left? Bit like Etsy, Amazon, Ebay and so on? Preferably with plenty of options in the backend and some kind of analytics? Does this style of website have a name I could look around for?

    I'm looking to customise so if there is a pre-built option is adding options on difficult with them and I'm better going bespoke?

    Any help, tips advice appreciated thank you.

    P.S my accountant doesn't have a clue.
    Can be done quite easily with Wordpress and something like Woo Commerce, it's all about how much effort you want to put in

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  • Paralytic
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    Originally posted by BigDataPro View Post

    Now accommodating all these various searchable attributes via a relational database (RDBMS) is a nightmare. The appropriate DB for this use case would be a document db like MongoDB. But most of the ready made / off the shelf scripts use a RDBMS such as MySQL and PHP.
    It's not really a nightmare with an RDBMS, but is a bit more complex than your standard e-commerce site. You just have to define a solution that work with pre-defined metadata (and sometimes even meta-metadata).

    I'm not aware of an off-the-shelf package that provides that, however.
    Last edited by Paralytic; 11 January 2021, 09:51.

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