Does OpenCart support multi-shop?

Daniel wrote:multishop will be in the next version.

Daniel wrote:Ok how would you want something like that to work?

Lets have a bit of a development discussion.

Features required for a multi store:

1. You would want a different store depending on the domain name the customer comes from.
2. Separate Templates.
3. Separate Categories.
4. Separate Products.
5. Would you want shared cart so if you buy from a mulit store you can pay together?
6. Would you want shared customer accounts?
7. Would you want shared coupon system?
8. Settings like store name, meta tags, welcome message should be Separate. I think most of the options can be the same though.



I have a feeling if I implemented this I would be getting no end of complaints.

1. Why can't my store only accept payment modules one store and not the other store.
2. I don't want my customers being accounts mixed up with my other store.
3. I only want people from one country access one store and not the other etc..
4. I don't want people using coupons on multiple stores.

simpleit wrote:

aidan wrote:It's been half year since my original post about the multi store. And finally I manage to finished the customization to make multi-store platform based on opencart.

Please check http://Lot.my. It is based on Opencart 1.3.X. It allowed user to create their own online store very quickly.

For sample of stores created using the platform: http://shopatmoleq.lot.my/ and http://demo.lot.my/.

Please have a look!

Hi aidan, that looks awesome! Could you please share the trick? Thank you very much!

chriscuk18 wrote:Hi

Is there any more news about sharing this with the community? - I'm wanting to use OpenCart however MultiMall is a must, I want to offer more than 1 store and with store admins, so they can only add and manage their own store. Not the rest of the installation or other peoples stores.

I'm also willing to make a donation or pay someone to develop this. Please PM me if you are interested in this..

Daniel wrote:

chriscuk18 wrote:Hi

Is there any more news about sharing this with the community? - I'm wanting to use OpenCart however MultiMall is a must, I want to offer more than 1 store and with store admins, so they can only add and manage their own store. Not the rest of the installation or other peoples stores.

I'm also willing to make a donation or pay someone to develop this. Please PM me if you are interested in this..

somebody might be paying me for a system like this. it will have a master admin where you have different store owners and each store can be enable, disabled formt he master admin.

mystifier wrote:Multi-shop is a very good idea, even where it is different 'departments' of the same shop, but it only really makes sense if:

a) There is a role/user group than only has visibility/control of content that belongs to their shop (and not be able to delete anything that is also used in another shop).

mystifier wrote: b) Each shop can have its own payment process (even if it is only a new account on the same gateway).

Daniel wrote:You only want this feature for your client.

Daniel wrote:It does not have this feature but, it can be done.

I did it with 2 sites before.

Mohal wrote:

Daniel wrote:It does not have this feature but, it can be done.

I did it with 2 sites before.

Sir, I am new to OpenCart. I need to know how can I make two different stores from one OpenCart installation? I got the idea that I need a subdomain for my second store but do I have to install a separate copy of OpenCart on my subdomain also? Can't I use same installation for both stores?

Please, help!

Xsecrets wrote: That is the way multi-store works in opencart point that new subdomain to the same install of opencart then in the admin create a new store for http://subdomain.domain.com/