Select and Sell For Marketplace
Select and Sell for Marketplace is a feature by which sellers can choose and sell the products which are already been sold by some particular seller. A seller can easily assign any existing product to his account and can modify the product details according to his needs.
Now lets just say, Seller John sees a product (Black T-Shirt) on the marketplace and thinks that he too can sell this Black T-Shirt. The t-shirt is originally sold by Seller Mike. Now, the seller John has two options: one he can create a new product from his account and provide all the details such as category, product name, description, sku, stock, stock availability, visibility, tax class, weight, meta title, meta description, meta keywords, product image, etc. The other option is to use Select and Sell feature which will allow the seller to sell the same product but without having to create a new product. This is the feature that Amazon* also uses and allows its sellers to select any product from the Amazon store and sell it themselves.
You can also have the same feature of Select and Sell through Marketplace Seller Price Comparison Add-on where seller can assign any product to his account by just providing the basic details like Product Condition (New/Old), Price, Quantity, Description and Product Image.
Marketplace Seller Price Comparison is an add-on of Magento Marketplace, Magento 2 Marketplace and OpenCart Marketplace which gives the functionality of Select and Sell.
Benefits of Using Select and Sell
So now lets discuss about the benefits of using this feature.
- The very first and most crucial benefit is that this module doesn’t create separate products even when the same product is sold by many different sellers. Only a single base product will exist in the global product catalog.
- The other benefit is already been discussed above that sellers don’t have to create any new product and fill all the details for being able to sell the same product which other seller is already selling on the marketplace.
- When a customer visits any product page – Black T-Shirt, he will be able to see the list of all the sellers who are also selling that Black T-shirt. So customer can easily compare the prices at which different sellers are selling the t-shirt.
Problem Set of an E-commerce Marketplace
Lets say seller John was not aware about the second option- Select and Sell, and he desperately wanted to sell the Black T-shirt. So what he would have done is that he had chosen the first option and created a new product from his account and added the same Black T-Shirt which seller Mike was originally selling. Now, the t-shirt that seller John has created would have the different and unique SKU value and hence it will be a new product in the marketplace catalog. So now, two same products would show up in the marketplace as different products. Now suppose, what seller John has done other sellers also decide to do the same thing as they also wanted to sell the Black T-Shirt. So they have also created new products from their account and now the marketplace is filled with Black T-shirts. Customer will see the same product in the catalog not just once but many times. This will frustrate the customer as they will be seeing the same product again and again.
Also creating a new product is time consuming as seller has to fill in all the necessary details such as category, product name, description, sku, stock, stock availability, visibility, tax class, weight, meta title, meta description, meta keywords, product image, etc.
The other thing is, when different sellers had created the same Black T-shirt from their accounts, it will not just flood the catalog but also it will consume a lot of storage space.
If different sellers has provided different prices for the t-shirt,then customers might not be able to see or check all the seller’s product who are selling the same t-shirt. In this case, the customers might not be able to correctly compare the prices for the t-shirt.
Solution
So the best solution to beat all the above mentioned issues is to use an add-on which will provide Select and Sell feature and the best option would be to go with Webkul’s Seller Price Comparison add-on which is available for Magento Marketplace, Magento2 Marketplace and Opencart Marketplace.
With the help of this feature, seller can assign any product to their account and they don’t have to provide all the product details. They just have to give the very basic details like Product Condition (New/Old), Price, Quantity, Description and Product Image.
Using select Select and Sell feature will also save the storage space as no new products are created.
The catalog will not be flooded with the same products and only the base product will be shown in the catalog of products.
Customers can easily compare the prices and can see at what price different sellers are selling the same product.
Select And Sell Marketplace Add-Ons
Magento Marketplace Seller Price Comparison add-an will only work with our Magento Marketplace Multi Vendor Module for Magento 1.9
Magento2 Seller Price Comparison Marketplace add-on will only work with our Marketplace Multi Vendor Module for Magento2.
OpenCart Price Comparison Marketplace add-on will only work with our OpenCart Marketplace.
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