Sylius: What is the plan for multiple store?

[videni]

I only found document related to store here , it says

Channel model represents a single sales channel, which can be one of the following things:
Webstore
Mobile application
Cashier in your physical store
Or pretty much any other channel type you can imagine.

But it is still not clear what the multi-store will be. from my understanding, I think multi-store is much like amazon.com, a retailer wants to sell his products on amazon.com, then he asks administrator of amazon.com to create a store form him, he logins in and adds his products , starts to trade. I think it's very important to clarify the direction of a functionality, so the community knows how to contribute.

[gabiudrescu]

are you talking about multi-tenant Sylius instances?

something like shopify?

[EmiiKhaos]

I think it is comparable with the Shopware Multi-Shop feature? where every Sylius channel can have it's own template, category tree, payment and shipment methods, own domain, own assortment and so on?

[gperdomor]

@patkar and own users/customers?

[videni]

@patkar,yep, that is what I think, will sylius go this way?

[okwinza]

Hey @videni.
From your description it looks like you're talking about some sort of "Patform as a Service" behaviour.
I highly doubt Sylius will go this way because it is not generic and should stay out of scope of this repo at least IMO.

The current multi-channel implementation relies on shared users/orders/products/etc data otherwise it's not a channel but a completely different Sylius installation.

Although i'm pretty much argee with @patkar that there is still a room of stuff to implement for proper multi-channel support.

[videni]

@okwinza ,@patkar, sorry for I din't describe it clearly, this is what I thought multi-channel is:

1. A channel doesn't manage customers, but it has channel administrators.
2. A store admin can only manage products belonged to his channel.
3. A customer can buy products from each channel.

it is much like ebay.If Sylius doesn't go this way, it might be better if we separate it properly , so it is possible for us to extend it.

[EmiiKhaos]

This is not what multi-channel in eCommerce means. Channels are separate sales-channels, e.g. a own mobile shopping app (via API), a ebay/amazon export, Points of Sale, etc.

Not a marketplace what you mean

[koemeet]

Indeed what @patkar is saying, multi-channel is implemented correctly in Sylius right now.

@videni What you are looking for is implementing an extra layer (I do that too), let's call it a Workspace. Almost all root entities will be linked to a single Workspace (channels, products, taxonomies etc.). In your case you would have multiple workspaces containing a single Channel that will represent the online shop. You do not want to abuse channels to achieve what you want.

With that setup each tenant could have a it's own workspace (or even multiple), it's then up to you if you want to abstract away multi-channel or not. I use the exact same setup to achieve multi tenancy with Sylius. The way Sylius is structured it is very easy to implement this IMO.

[videni]

@steffenbrem, @patkar ,thanks for pointing me the right direction.

[enekochan]

@steffenbrem I'm new to Sylius and I need to implement that same extra layer to be able to have multiple stores (each store in a different subdomain with it's own separated products, customers, users, ...). Could you elaborate in how you made it work? Thanks!

[younes0]

@enekochan did you figure it out ?

[enekochan]

@younes0 Haven't started with this yet but found this PR that may be helpful https://github.com/Sylius/Sylius/pull/3479