How are products tied to a particular merchant?
 
I have 1000+ products that I need to assign to the appropriate merchants, but I can't find the setting anywhere.

back to the topic... There isn't much information about the merchant module. Is anyone using it? My store depends on this and I'm migrating from another cart. I have to know how to assign products. I hope I am missing something simple here.

When merchants added products from their home page products automatically assigned for them but there is no posibility to assign merchants from administration.

Thanks, Monk. That makes the feature practically worthless, then. I won't be able to use this cart.
 
Does anyone know where this is applied in the mysql database? Maybe I could set it through that instead...

You can find user_id field in the va_items table which is used to assign merchant to particular product.
 
I think, the main idea of merchant functionality - ability to add products for merchants by themselves so there is no such option in the administrative section.
 
Anyway you can contact support and ask them to add this option as it seems it should be there as well when administrator need to help some merchant to add some product.

Thank you very much for the info. I'll check it out!
 
I contacted support about the merchant module since documentation is so limited. I understand that it's great for merchants to add products themselves in the future but that's useless when I'm starting with 1000 products and have no way to assign them to anyone.

Yeah... I deem that part useless as well.
 
Another aspect where you have to go to the database to conduct your business.
 
see thread: http://www.viart.com/i_would_never_give_access_to_my_database_to_an_employee.html

Thanks for all the info. I think I've figured out how to make it work by directly editing the database, but it's ridiculous this isn't built into the admin panel. It just doesn't make sense at all that users can access things the administrator can't. (And I'm disappointed to hear this isn't the only thing!)
 
I think this is the 5th cart I've tested in the past year (trying to migrate from another cart) so I really want to make it work. However, it looks like I may have to take the 30 day refund and run. Now I'm worried if it actually works how it's supposed to or if it's just the front end that was never fully developed.

The merchant user selection is a MUST have, really needed feature for us too!
 
I need to start some shops in some months, but couldnt do that without a well working merchant selection!
 
Viart coders! Please place that little code in the Product edit!!!!

Well, based on the response I got from support, I don't think they know this feature is missing. I was given links pointing to instructions for importing and assigning categories to user types. As to my question about where to find the setting in the mysql database: "It is on your server." They did state correctly that there is no way to find products for a particular merchant in the admin panel.
 
If my testing proves this module works otherwise, I'm going to invest in some of my own modifications for this particular problem. It seems like it should be pretty simple to add a place to view/edit/add this information.

Hi all,
 
ould you be so kind to share your thoughts on how to get the user name from the table va_items. by default user_id is 0 in all the products added by the merchant. I'm not a king in SQL but if you could at list point me into the right irection I would apreciate!!
 
Thank you.
 
Sltwin

I ended up getting a refund, but I'm still looking for a shopping cart solution and checked back with viart. I noticed that 3.6 was just released. I wonder if this new feature fixes my problem?
 
QUOTE:
# Possibility to edit a product merchant from the Admin section
 
We've listened to your feedback and make it possible for an Administrator to view to what merchant an item belongs on the product Edit page. Moreover, you'll be able to change a merchant (if there is such a need).
 
Can someone confirm?

Manamana, I think you've asked about the settings shown in the attached image.

Thank you for taking the time to post that screen shot, Monk!
 
It's nice to know that they listen to these types of concerns.