ecommerce software per customer admin

junglequestions

I want to set-up a website were each customer could set-up their own small store. Its for a specific range of products. There would be a set fields for the the product. Each time they would upload a product they would get charged a small fee. Something like ebay or buyandsell where you can set-up you own store within the website.

anybody know of any software that could do this?

sicruise

OSCommerce might have a module to do something similar but prob not... but you could have an install per customer.

cousin_borat

You may want to take a look at the Business Model that Salesforce has adopted for letting customers customize and create user interfaces for their own CRM systems

http://www.salesforce.com/platform/

Salesforce are trying to take the SaaS idea a step further with PaaS (Platform as a service).

Perhaps that could be adapted to fit your customer needs. Other than that I wouldn't recommend trying to do something as ambitious yourself.

DublinDilbert

sicruise wrote:

OSCommerce might have a module to do something similar but prob not... but you could have an install per customer.

OSCommerce is good, and it's free... you might have to do modify bits of it to do exactly what you want, although theres lots of modules already written for it...

What many people do is buy a top level domain and get it hosted, eg webshop.com or the like..... then they set-up sub domains for all of the individual shops they are hosting, eg tools.webshop.com.... these subdomiains can be linked, or even loaded in a frame, from the main website.. .

cousin_borat

OSCommerce is old hat and looks and feels dated