I see you can made a link to show a particular Vendor's page, but is there a way to do so "invisibly" such that if this vendor were to have their own webpage, they could show this store as if it were there own without any tie back to the main marketplace? The only "tie-back" would be a common login with the main marketplace and payment would flow through the marketplace and items would draw down on same database and inventory as vendor listed in the marketplace.
I would imagine this should be able to be accomplished with some sort of custom layout set up on a per vendor basis and then applying the widget code for them to embed to their own webpage? Also should work similarly to drop their store onto facebook?
1. Admin creates custom layout for a specific vendor
2. Layout utilizes vendor filter AND selects a specific vendor
3. Layout hides the block to view and modify vendor filter
4. Functions as if this were a single vendor store front, but pays back commissions to the marketplace hosting it
There has got to be someone who could make this happen!
As well as a more flexible commission structure (% of price + fixed $ per item would be a good start instead of 1 or the other only)