Saleor: Multi stores for partners

[aktywnitu]

What I'm trying to achieve

I would like to create ecommerce platform for sellers.

Describe a proposed solution

Multi dashboards and one storefront..

[hairychris]

Reaction Commerce had this feature in v1 but have ripped it out for v2 due to the maintenance burden.

You could hack something together with django-tenant-schemas as suggested by https://github.com/mirumee/saleor/issues/1912 but you wouldn't have a shared storefront.

What's changed since that issue was posted is the addition of the GraphQL API, using that you could probably make a frontend that pulled from multiple tenant backends but it would be non-trivial.

[aktywnitu]

OK. Thanks for answer.
And thanks for info about this maintenance burden in Reaction Commerce with this feature.
Good to know that Reaction Commerce don't support multi vendors now.
I will try do it in the simplest way as possible. I prefer some Saleor customization, than many apps instances. Other possible solution is meta app, but it also make thinks complicated.

[hairychris]

Reaction Commerce do support it right now, they've dropped support in 2.0.0 which is in RC stage due to the extra maintenance and testing burden it was placing on their team.

This is probably something a lot of people want however so if there is a way to do it cleanly that would be awesome. Platforms currently are run by a lot of giant companies who charge a large fee. It would be great if Saleor could help wrestle some of that control away and spur the growth of lots of new platforms.

[PSNick]

Shame, I was drooling at the sight of saleor only to find out it doesn't support multi-vendors. Reading a bit I saw a post from Marcin that mentioned it is a planned feature for 2019, though not Q1 from the looks of it.
https://medium.com/saleor/saleor-2-0-release-graphql-first-headless-e-commerce-1330f2151585

[aktywnitu]

@maarcingebala, so multi-vendor feature is in roadmap or not?

[maarcingebala]

Since we're getting a lot of questions about that, we will investigate how much effort and changes to the current codebase it would require to support that. The case of Reaction is very interesting in this context and we will have to look at it as well.

Our goal for Q1 is closing features gap between the SPA storefront and dashboard. If everything goes fine we will start adding new features in Q2. Multivendor might be one of them, but as I said, it first requires thorough research.

[aktywnitu]

Thanks Marcin.
I will do also my own research.
What does SPA mean?
OK. Single Page Application.

[maarcingebala]

SPA stands for single page application and by that, I was referring to the Storefront 2.0 which is implemented entirely in React.

[ljcljc]

It would be great if we can support multi stores, I am looking for a solution like that.

[dnk8n]

Also keen on the multiple stores idea.

[maarcingebala]

Closing in favor of #1251, also read our update on this on Spectrum: https://spectrum.chat/saleor/general/saleor-multi-vendor-when-this-feature-will-release~5c665517-170f-45b3-94f4-ae9f7d344ac9?m=MTU2MDc1NTExMTA3MA==

[toppylawz]

Oh I wish the version 2.0 now supports multi-store possibility.