By drupalninja99 on

I'm thinking of using ecommerce to allow users of a particular role. Now we would have just one merchant account. Customers of course can buy products from different vendors in the same transaction. Now what I am confused about is how I reconcile the books later. Is each vendor notified that their product has been sold? How would I disburse the funds? Am I going to have to do all this manually? I guess I would manually have to disburse the funds somehow which seems like a pain. Thoughts?

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Adam Messinger commented

I'd like to know more about this myself. I have a client who's site is just getting started, and he'd eventually like to sell other people's stuff for a cut of the profits. Doing that will require some ability to sort out which stuff belongs to whom so that money can be distributed accordingly.

I admittedly haven't gotten much of a look at the e-commerce modules yet. He's starting with just one item of his own, which will be sold with PayPal's simple shopping cart tools. If anyone could point me toward the right documentation for my particular problem, I'd appreciate it. I haven't had much luck in figuring this out with the online docs, and I want to be ready when it's time for his shop to expand.