Post by comprido » Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:52 am

Is there any way to restrict the shopping cart by brand or shop by manufacturer?

I work in multistore mode, due to the supplier warehouse location (some overseas when not in different part of the country) enable different delivery options is non-worth.

So I think, just because it would also affect the SEO, maybe better limit the shop by brand.

I mean:
1. the store will display all products and manufacturers by default.
2. Once the customer adds a product from one brand to the shopping cart, will not be able to buy or even see products from other manufacturers or just can buy from the specified brands. And that's the third...
3. Would be nice if you can select or combine manufacturers. So for ex. for manufacturer A and B (custom selected from admin panel) this restriction will not apply.

Desired features:
4. The shop allow the customer to add products displaying the advice but restrict the checkout so has to make a decision about wich manufacturer products buy.
5. The cart display product by manufacturer so customer can remove all the products from one manufacturer at once on Cart View or Checkout. Aliexpress has a custom display view like this, and allows you to buy selecting products by manufacturer.
6. One-click function "Display just products from this brand". So once added one product of the manufacturer A, the shop notice and can limit the query to that manufacturer wich also may improve the store and database queries.

I don't want just to display products by brand so not a Shop by Manufacturer or Restrict Customer Groups normal mod.
Remember that one user (one profile) should be able to order from different manufacturers on different orders.
Maybe something like Restrict Checkout mod easier... I mean, just for manufacturer restrictions.

Of course implement the advice at the header "Now shopping XXXX brand" and repeat the message in product pages or if the customer try to add other brand products.

What do you think...?

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Post by margarettestine » Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:28 am

This is such a great insight, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.


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Post by comprido » Tue Feb 20, 2018 2:52 am

For those that want to base the shipping for different manufacturers and combine them, there is a mod called: (1.5.x) Category & Product-Based Shipping, in the website http://www.getclearthinking.com/categor ... d-shipping you can see an "Example: combining charges for different categories". That can be a solution if you don't want something complex.

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Post by comprido » Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:52 am

Done, first, simple and vqmod ready https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=33289

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