On Feb 20, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Deepak Agarwal wrote:

> Thanks Mayur,
> 
> We want to maintain separate inventory for each store. Product prices I
> think we can maintain for each store by using productStoreGroup in
> ProductPrice entity (with productStoreGroup we can have multiple default
> prices of common products for different stores and ).
> 
> Our stores are kiosks at malls and we have modified webpos for this. What
> we want is to give them a drop down while creating a sales order so that
> they can select whether to show just that store's product (while typing in
> the product search autocomplete) or to show other store's products too. For
> this we would require some association with product. that association is I
> am trying to find out.

> 
> Based on the above requirement I have following questions regarding the
> setup:
> 

> 1) When you want to host a solution where multiple organizations gets a
> control panel to maintain their ecommerce.

Answers respective to ecommerce based stores since you mentioned it. I don't 
know whether you have both online presence or you just take orders from the pos 
terminal.

It could be either multi-instance or multi-tenant architecture. AFAIK OFBiz 
doesn't support multi-tenant for eCommerce.

> 2) When a single organization has multiple stores with common products
> among the stores.

It can be done with three different web-apps running on a single OFBiz instance 
or a different OFBiz instance for each store. While using the single instance 
model, you can cut down the implementation time by extending the core web-app 
for rest of the two stores - see the OOTB ecommerce component for example. I 
would suggest you to use a single instance model to save some effort on 
managing the common data and implementation time.

> 
> I haven't found anything on net if some setup for the above requirement is
> documented for ofbiz. In first scenario I wonder if we should start a
> separate instance and database for each organization or just one db and
> multiple instances can do ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Vikas Mayur <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> You might want to over simplify things at the moment but try to think
>> beyond the implementation time. The answer to your question depends on
>> various factors like how you will manage your catalog (adding, removing or
>> editing common products) on all the three site, price variations, number of
>> warehouse (one warehouse per store or just one common warehouse for all
>> three stores) etc.
>> 
>> I think the general tendency of keeping same products on different
>> websites for a single organization is to attract customers to a particular
>> site offering lowest rate :) The idea I believe remains the same, sell as
>> much products as you can.
>> 
>> Vikas
>> 
>> On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Deepak Agarwal wrote:
>> 
>>> We have 3 stores for one organization. Some of the products are common
>>> between them and some are not. We want to be able to run these stores
>> with
>>> minimal changes.
>>> 
>>> 2 Possibility we are thinking of :
>>> 
>>> 1) Use ProductFacility association. Associate each product with all the
>>> facility where it is available (since stores are linked up with facility
>> so
>>> a JOIN with productfacility while searching for the products in that
>> store
>>> would work)
>>> 
>>> 2) Recreate the whole catalog-category structure (in this case for
>> example
>>> we might have to create 3 category id for Mobiles category) and attach
>>> products to them.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Deepak Agarwal,
>>> 
>>> Mobile: +91 9501190044
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Deepak Agarwal,
> 
> Mobile: +91 9501190044

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