We learned that vendors in Multi-Vendor aren't able to create coupons codes. It seems CS-Cart designed it so when "Vendor A" creates a discount code it applies the Vendor A discount to Vendor B's products at checkout as well. So, if you have a cart with multiple products from different vendors a coupon code created by one vendor will work on all the products at checkout.
Obviously, vendors shouldn't be able to create coupons for other vendors. With this design a sneaky vendor could create a "100% Off" coupon and purchase everything in our marketplace for free. :-(
CS-Cart support said vendor coupons will work correctly with the Direct Customer to Vendors Payments addon enabled. Although, that addon means buyers need to check out from every vendor individually instead of checking out once for all products from multiple vendors. Modern Marketplaces haven't worked like this for over a decade and it sounds like a bad buyer experience to make someone check out multiple times when purchasing something from one website.
I would like to propose CS-Cart fix Promotions so that if a Vendor creates a Discount Coupon it will work only on the products within that vendors catalog and not on every product in the marketplace.
We learned that vendors in Multi-Vendor aren't able to create coupons codes. It seems CS-Cart designed it so when "Vendor A" creates a discount code it applies the Vendor A discount to Vendor B's products at checkout as well. So, if you have a cart with multiple products from different vendors a coupon code created by one vendor will work on all the products at checkout.
Obviously, vendors shouldn't be able to create coupons for other vendors. With this design a sneaky vendor could create a "100% Off" coupon and purchase everything in our marketplace for free. :-(
CS-Cart support said vendor coupons will work correctly with the Direct Customer to Vendors Payments addon enabled. Although, that addon means buyers need to check out from every vendor individually instead of checking out once for all products from multiple vendors. Modern Marketplaces haven't worked like this for over a decade and it sounds like a bad buyer experience to make someone check out multiple times when purchasing something from one website.
I would like to propose CS-Cart fix Promotions so that if a Vendor creates a Discount Coupon it will work only on the products within that vendors catalog and not on every product in the marketplace.
I looked at that addon, but it reads as if the marketplace needs to create the promotions for the vendors. Since we have thousands of vendors we wouldn't be able to keep up with adding and deleting vendor promotions all day long. We need a solution where vendors can create and manage their own promotions.
It seems "so close" in CS-Cart already. I'm surprised they haven't coded it to recognize when a Vendor created a promotion so it doesn't apply that promotion to other vendor products.
I looked at that addon, but it reads as if the marketplace needs to create the promotions for the vendors. Since we have thousands of vendors we wouldn't be able to keep up with adding and deleting vendor promotions all day long. We need a solution where vendors can create and manage their own promotions.
It seems "so close" in CS-Cart already. I'm surprised they haven't coded it to recognize when a Vendor created a promotion so it doesn't apply that promotion to other vendor products.
unfortunately i have to reactivate this post. We have a multi vendor ultimate installation with the activated addon “Customer to vendor payment”.
Unfortunately this deactivates the internal addon coupons of cs-cart. We now need a solution to be able to use coupons per vendor.
We also have the plugin “Promotions - discount on products of vendors” in use, but the field “coupon code” is missing in the shopping cart and at checkout.