Buy flow optimization under paramater

[michmish]

Hi, I'd like to suggest a feature for the marketplace. Right now, if someone wants to buy something he has to wait for the vendor to accept his bid so a buyer always have to connect 2 times on marketplace to make a single purchase (since vendor won't be online 7/7 24/24).

What i propose is "easy" : When you create the listing put an option for the vendor : "autofill escrow". If any buyer bid on the listing (with a max number of listing the vendor accept to autofill + location he agrees to ship).

What it implies is really game changing since in this configuration the buyer has to connect only once to make a purchase. We have to be aware that vendors selling online sell 15% more if they don't activate 3D-secure payment ! Why ? Because it takes less time to do the purchase without secure authentication ! Time is the biggest oponent in a buy-flow

[zaSmilingIdiot]

Thanks for the suggestion. However, given the requirements for the signing of various transactions at the moment, and each step technically completing the signing of one or more transactions for the party completing the step, this is not currently possible. Each party needs to sign the relevant transaction at the time, and hence the need to complete each step in turn.

[PARTimprovert]

I very much like this suggestion, would this be technically feasible at some point @zaSmilingIdiot ?

[zaSmilingIdiot]

Possibly. I think if an alternative means for signing of the various escrow txs, then it would be implemented in the OMP library, need to be incorporated into the Marketplace codebase, and then finally the desktop can bring that in :) Requires some thought around the whole process. So I wouldn't expect this to be a solved problem anytime soon. But its something we can think about in the future.