Multi-Vendor Questions

I am working on a multi-vendor site. I already have X-CART Platinum multi-vendor. But, I'm considering using a different solution. I have several questions?:

  1. Is there any customer to vendor communications suchs as customer to vendor chat or email? Either built-in or readily available add-on.
  2. How are returns managed? Are the return authorizations handled by the marketplace admin or the vendor admin?
  3. 70% of my vendors will be selling products with similar sku/upc codes, how is that handled? In other words if a customer searches for product X and five vendors sell product X, how will that be presented to the customer/

Hello!

1. Is there any customer to vendor communications suchs as customer to vendor chat or email? Either built-in or readily available add-on.


There is no built-in solution to contact vendors.

We can offer you the Communication add-on developed by our company: https://store.cart-power.com/cs-cart-communication-add-on.html

There are some other solutions in Cs-Cart Marketplace: http://marketplace.cs-cart.com/

2. How are returns managed? Are the return authorizations handled by the marketplace admin or the vendor admin?


The returns are managed by the marketplace admin.

3. 70% of my vendors will be selling products with similar sku/upc codes, how is that handled? In other words if a customer searches for product X and five vendors sell product X, how will that be presented to the customer/


If customers search by product code, they will see 5 products with the same SKU code.

Dear Bill,
Thank you for your message.
My name is Mikhail, I am a sales specialist at CS-Cart.
1. Here is a SaaS live chat and HelpDesk system. It allows you to establish a multichannel system of communication for your vendors and customers.
http://marketplace.cs-cart.com/add-ons/customer-experience/liveagent-multi-channel-helpdesk.html
2. Return requests are managed by the root administrator. To learn more about return management functionality please check the following section of our documentation (Return Merchandise Authorization):
http://docs.cs-cart.com/4.5.x/user_guide/addons/rma/index.html
3. The representation of products in Multi-Vendor is similar to eBay. So, if six vendors offer iPhone 8 there will be six iPhone 8 products.
Hope that this information will be helpful.
Have a good day!

I am working on a multi-vendor site. I already have X-CART Platinum multi-vendor. But, I'm considering using a different solution. I have several questions?:

  1. Is there any customer to vendor communications suchs as customer to vendor chat or email? Either built-in or readily available add-on.
  2. How are returns managed? Are the return authorizations handled by the marketplace admin or the vendor admin?
  3. 70% of my vendors will be selling products with similar sku/upc codes, how is that handled? In other words if a customer searches for product X and five vendors sell product X, how will that be presented to the customer/

Hello

All 3 are readily available with us.

connect us at skype - kartpay.support

Thanks