Requirements for Multi-vendor e-commerce website
-Vendor can be paid directly. [Square payments,COD] (maybe Paypal/Stripe onboarding)
-Shopping cart items separated/selectable/sortable/grouped by vendor.
-Customer can only checkout and pay one vendor at a time.
-Customer can chat directly with vendor.
-Customer can browse a list of vendors.
-Customer can view a Vendors shop page with list of their items for sale.
-Vendors can purchase placement on homepage. (Slider, Featured items 1st/2nd Tier).
-Vendor product listing fees (Variation items additional listing fee).
-2 Category dropdown menus Products and Services.
-Clean look. Responsive. Simple 1 page product adding page that won’t confuse non-tech vendors.
-No fancy code or unnecessary features/addons (less chance of bugs). Plain PHP/JavaScript as much as possible. Minimal Ajax. Clean simple code. Easy to maintain and customize.
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£1 million pounds 
Listen you would need to check the marketplace first and see if anything came close - that would be my suggestion. However, custom design work which is what you have asked for, then you need a developer and you might need to think seriously about how much that will cost.
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Don’t forget the complexity and cost of maintaining and managing something with extensive functionality
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Yup, I checked and even bought one and modified it myself. Almost had it done but kept running into bugs. Their code was a mess, I don’t know how it was even allowed on this platform lol I guess I’ll just have to code it myself from scratch.
Thanks but I bought one of those ones and I wish I saw a code sample before purchase lol Full of bugs. I’m scared to put into production, it will be a nightmare. Wasted months trying to fix. The other one you mentioned the demo doesn’t even work right. and no screenshot of the cart.
I can code. Looks like I have to build it from scratch to make sure it’s done right and bug free.
I’d suggest Magento 2 but it won’t be cheap to purchase the extensions. This is exactly the same project I have finished couple of years ago, they invested quite good money, though…
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Some scripts (maybe more than some) are not always error free, and especially then if changes are made to the coding, then it can show more issues or bugs than were perhaps there in the first place.
I don’t think I specifically mentioned any particular script - just a selection to look at.
I would always lean towards procedural PHP, rather than relying on platforms, and I have a reasonable knowledge of scripts, but would never build one from scratch - that would just take too long for me LOL. Good luck my friend in finding what you need.
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Sounds like a solid plan for a multi-vendor setup! Keeping it clean, simple, and easy to maintain is a great approach. Plain PHP/JS will definitely help with stability and customization. Are you planning to use an existing platform like WooCommerce/Dokan or building it from scratch?
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Hi, Thanks for your reply. I might have to code it from scratch because all the existing products here all work pretty much the same. It would be more work to deconstruct them and rebuild.
If there was a basic project with customer/vendor/admin login functions then an empty admin panel, empty vendor panel then I could just add to the project.
I’m surprised that base projects are not sold here, something ready to add onto. But instead many projects try to do everything for everyone and they become nightmares to customize, maintain and debug lol
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