Laravel eCommerce Marketplace Hyperlocal Extension

This module benefits both sellers and buyers. Sellers can add shipping locations easily. Buyers can enter their location to view available sellers and products in that specific area.

This module connects the customers with local stores and also transforming the shopping experience of the customers.

• Products will be visible of seller’s which matches the customer’s location.
• Admin can set a single seller/multi-seller checkout.
• Customers will be able to view all sellers in their area.
• The Customer will be able to view all the products available in their area.
• Customer will be able to view all the products available of a particular seller

Unzip the respective extension zip and then merge “packages” folder into project root directory.

Goto composer.json file and add following line under ‘psr-4’

"Webkul\\MarketplaceHyperlocal\\": "packages/Webkul/MarketplaceHyperlocal/src"

Goto bootstrap/providers.php file, add the following line under the ‘providers’ section

Webkul\MarketplaceHyperlocal\Providers\MarketplaceHyperlocalServiceProvider::class

Run these commands below to complete the setupsection

composer dump-autoload

php artisan marketplace-hyperlocal:install

php artisan optimize:clear

After installation of the module, admin can also configure the module by going to Configure->Hyperlocal Marketplace.

Here Admin needs to enter the following details-

• Google API Key– Admin has to provide the Google API Key so that Google search suggestion for the location will work.
• Radius Unit (km/mile):- The admin can set it’s radius config in kilometer or miles.
• Status:- To enable or disable the module.
• Enable single seller checkout:-If the admin wants to allow the customer to checkout with a single seller product then the admin needs to enable this toggle button. If checkout with more than one seller’s products then disables this toggle button.

Note: For Google API Key please visit https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key

The admin also needs to set the post code for the inventory also so that the product from that inventory will be visible according to the zip code entered by the customer:-

The admin needs to navigate to the settings>>inventory sources. In this page the admin can see all the created inventory as shown below:-

To add new inventory click on Add Inventory or to edit existing inventory click on edit button.

 

The admin needs to enter all the details regarding the Inventory including the Latitude, Longitude and Postcode as shown above.

Sellers can define their inventory location, which ensures that their products are visible only to customers in nearby or selected areas, improving location-based accessibility and relevance.

Under the seller panel just need to navigate to settings-> Inventory sourcess a page will generate that will look like shown below:-

Enter your Location

When customers visit the website, a pop-up appears asking them to enter their location. They can add their location or zip code in the pop-up and click the save button to confirm it.

Products Available – Based On Customers’ Location

As soon as the customer enters the location, on the frontend of the customer will be able to see all the products who are available near the customer location.

To view the sellers available products, the customers needs to click on the set their location.

To View the products seller name the customer needs to click on the Product.

Location Change

When customers change their location, a pop-up warns that the cart will be emptied. All added products will be removed, and the cart becomes empty after location change.

If the admin has enable single seller checkout

When the admin has enable the single seller checkout, the customer will be able to purchase product from a single seller only.

The customer will not be able to purchase product from different sellers. The alert pop up will generate as shown in the image below:-

Hyperlocale Shipping

Marketplace Hyperlocal Shipping allows sellers to deliver products only within a specific geographic area based on their location and customer proximity.

When a customer proceeds to checkout, they will see available hyperlocal shipping options based on their location.

Support

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