themexpert
Basic multi-vendor feature
It's not a request on real multi-vendor feature as we can see in e-commerce, but let's imagine such situation:
- website sell digital goods of different authors, each author want to get 100% payment from each sale. no need to take any fee.
In theory it's possible to extend all existing payment plugins - keep up default settings and add custom settings for selected user. I.e. there are two default fields (merchant ID, secret) and "add more" button - when we click on it, a new settings appears and we can assign new custom settings to selected user (admin1, admin2). During the checkout process the script will determine author of the product (need new field like standard author of the article with ID), so if the item was created by admin1, the payment will go to their merchant ID, if it's admin2 - at another merchant ID. If no users selected - default merchant settings will be used.
Such addition can help small business like site where 2-3 authors/colleagues sell their scripts and each of them want to sell own product without any fees taken by 3rd party person.
Theoretically it looks not hard. The only problem is statistics. There should be an option to filter result by "vendor".
Not a must-have feature, but maybe you'll do that in future.
