Opencart Marketplace Hyperlocal System

• Allows delivering seamless services on time.
• The customer can enter their location and buy products from the nearest seller’s store.
• Also, the customer can also change their location.
• The customer can check the seller’s availability in their location.
• Customers can check the product’s availability in their location.
• The seller can add multiple locations.
• Also, the seller can add Hyperlocal flat rate shipping.
• The seller can add the shipping price using a CSV file.
• The seller can configure the delivery time slots for their products.
• Delivery time slots let the customers choose their own delivery day when they want to receive the orders.
• Admin can also add multiple locations.
• The admin can add shipping on behalf of sellers using a CSV file.
• Admin can add radius unit and range which will be used to search the seller from the customer’s location.
• The seller and the admin will manage the Delivery/ Pickup for customer orders.
• The admin can allow the customer to process the Single or Multiple seller checkout.
• Customers can check the available sellers on the Homepage.
• Product details previews in the form of the popup so take lesser time to view and no navigation is required.
• This module is also working on multi-store.
• Admin can sort the product by location or in alphabetical order.
• The seller can set the price for locations between pickup and drop location. 
• Admin can add the location of their store and can show their product if the location is added by the admin.

Note – Google Map API feature is a paid service.

Installation of Opencart Marketplace Hyperlocal System is easy. After unzipping the module directory you can find the following folders: 

admin, catalog, demo,ocmod, system, and theme patch.

The user just needs to upload admin, catalog, demo, and system folders to the root directory.

If you are using the journal theme then upload the catalog folder from the theme patch.

Once you have uploaded the file then login to admin and go to Extensions> Extension installer and upload the XML file. The XML file can be found on the ocmod folder.

After uploading the XML file go to the Extensions > Modification and click on the refresh field.

Now, after that in the Admin panel go to System -> Users -> Usergroup and edit ‘Administrator’ and select all for both Access and Modify Permission then save it.

After that under Extension > Modules install the Opencart Marketplace Hyperlocal System Module like this way.

As this Opencart Marketplace Hyperlocal System module supports multiple languages so this section will describe how to make the module work in different languages.

Please check this link for language translation

After installation, the admin will configure the module settings by navigating to Extensions > Modules > Marketplace Hyperlocal as shown below –

Here, the admin will-

• API Key: Enter the API key. Get the Google API key from the above-mentioned process.
• Hyperlocal Module Status: Enable or disable the module as per the choice.
• Hyperlocal Store: Here you select your hyperlocal store.
• Single Seller Checkout Status: The admin can Enable this for restricting the customers to purchase products of multiple sellers.
• Allow for admin products(if enabled): Customer can see the product of the admin if the location is added by the admin.
• Redirect on seller profile(if enabled): Customer can view the products on the seller profile.
• Heading For Location Model: Enter the heading that will be visible to the customers while entering their location.
• Radius Unit: Enter the radius unit.
• Default location of customer: The admin can set the default location of the store.
• Sort By: Sorting of products will be done in alphabetical order or by radius (near to far).

Further,  navigate to Extension > Module > Marketplace and click on edit.

After that allow the ‘Seller Location‘ in the account menu from the Marketplace module so that sellers can see the option in their marketplace menu.

Further, the admin will Enable the Status of this feature. By this, the layout of the store will show only the seller’s list. 

Otherwise, the homepage view will be like a normal store homepage that looks like a default store homepage.

The admin will manage the homepage layout by navigating to the Design  > Layouts > Home.

There, the admin will add the details like Column Left, Content Top, Column Right, and Content Bottom.

Now, the admin can configure the Hyperlocal Shipping from Extensions > Shipping. 

Also, after clicking on the edit button, the admin can select geo-zone, enable the module, enter the title for the shipping method, and enter the default flat rate shipping.

When a customer visits the website then the default location will appear which is set by the admin. 

If there is no seller at the customer’s location then no product will be visible to the customer and the message will be displayed as in the image below:

If there is a product in the cart and the customer changes the location. Then a pop-up notification will show stating “Change in the location may clear the cart. Are you sure? “.

If the products which are added to the cart do not exist in the new location then the products will get deleted from the cart.

For example- if the customer has saved location New York and added products P1, P2, and P3 in the cart.

Further, if the customer changes the location where the P1 and P3 products are unavailable.

In this case, P1 and P3 products will get cleared from the cart and the product P2 will remain in the cart.

Seller Profile Page

Further, the customer will select any product and it will view in the form of an image popup.

On the popup, the customer can view and select the delivery time slots available and proceed to checkout.

Note: Here the close time slot will not be visible in the front end as given in the below image:

Also, the customer can select the products under the Sell page of the store.

The customer will add the product to the cart that they want to checkout with. After that, the customer will view the cart as shown in the image below:

After clicking on the Continue button the checkout process will start as shown below:

The customer will log in if not done before. Guest customers can also create an account in this process.

Finally, under the Confirm Order tab the customer will check the brief order details as shown in the image below:

By clicking on the Confirm Order, the customer will navigate to the order success page:

Check Order Details

The customer can check the placed order under My Account >. Order History. Thereby. selecting the desired order will navigate the customer to the order details page.

Note: The customers can also view the shipping method and delivery time slots details in their order information.

Even the admin and the seller can view the shipping method and delivery time slots details in the order information.

Admin has full control over the module. Admin can add the location of the seller from the admin panel.

For this, from the admin section navigate to Marketplace > Hyperlocal > Seller location.

Here admin can check the seller name and the locations added by them. Admin can also add or delete locations from here.

After clicking on the add button admin can add multiple locations at the same time.  Here admin can select admin or any seller’s name from the dropdown and enter the location.

The admin will add the following details:

• Seller: The admin will select the location of the seller.
• Location: The admin will type the location and select the appropriate location from the dropdown.
• Delivery/ Pickup option: The admin can choose between options i.e. Delivery and Pickup, this will depend on the location added by the seller :
  • Delivery: If the admin selects the delivery option, the customers will get their product delivery at doorsteps.
  • Pickup: Whereas, in case of pickup, the customer will have to pick the order from the respective store. 

The admin can also add shipping with the use of the CSV file. For this admin can navigate to Marketplace > Hyperlocal > shipping list.

Here admin can check all the shipping rates added. Also, the admin can add shipping prices on behalf of the seller.

After clicking on the add button admin can find the option to upload CSV file and select separator. Now, the admin can click on the next button to continue.

Further, by clicking on the Next button, the admin needs to match the column according to the index.  After that click on save to save your shipping method.

Note:- If a customer does not come under the shipping rate defined in the CSV file then the flat rate will apply.

If a seller has not mentioned any flat rate then the rate which admin has entered at the time of Hyperlocal Shipping configuration will apply.

That’s all for the Opencart Marketplace Hyperlocal module. Still, have any issue feel free to add a ticket and let us know your views at https://webkul.uvdesk.com/.