Prestashop Marketplace Post Buy Request
With the help of this module, the customer (buyer) can place a request for the product that is in stock or not in stock or has not been added to the store. When buyer place a request for the products then the request will be sent to the sellers who have subscribed to the category of that product.
A seller who has subscribed to the category but has not not added any product in the category, can add the product once the post buy request is received.
The module will help increase the sales as now the buyer can place the request even for products that have not been added to the store.
The seller(s) who can fulfill the requirement can contact the buyer.
Installation:
Go to back office ->module , upload the module zip file , then search “Post Buy” in module search box then go to module and click on install.
Thus, giving the following advantages to the buyer and the seller:
* Buyer can place purchase request for the products that are in stock, not added to the store or are already added.
* Buyer can send request to different sellers for the products.
* Buyer can put up the choice for the location of the seller.
* Buyer can send the request for virtual products also.
* Opportunity for the sellers to contact the perspective buyer.
* Seller can even add the product later, once the request has been received.
* The sellers that have subscribe to the respective category will receive the request through email.
* All the users can view the post buy request placed so far.
Front view after the module installation:
Once the module is installed, two tabs will be added to the sellers marketplace account:
With the menu “Subscription management”, seller can subscribe to the category for which the seller wishes to receive the post buy request email notification. Seller can also view the subscribed categories.
By “add subscription”, seller can subscribe to new categories.
From the second menu added “my post buy request” shows the post buy request made by the seller.
View of the customer account after installing the module:
A menu “my post buy request” gets added, as shown in the screenshot:
Backend view after the installation:
A new tab will be added under the Marketplace management tab ie, Post buy Request. From here admin can view all the requests made by the customer and the seller.
Understanding the flow of making a request:
The button “Post Buy Request” is available on top of every page.
Once the user clicks on the request button, a page will appear with the list of all post buy requests. With the help of “Add Request” button, the buyer can place the request for the product. User needs to login to place the request
By filling the respective fields in the form, the buyer can request the product. The buyer needs to specify the category, product name, product description, quantity of the product, product price. The buyer can also upload the image (if any) for the product.
Once the buyer submits the request, the same is sent to all the sellers who have subscribed to the category as selected by the buyer. The seller subscribed to the parent category also receives the notification email for post buy request. Example – Home category is the parent category and it has two sub categories, clothing and mobile. Seller A subscribed to sub-category mobile and seller B subscribed to the parent category ie. home. Buyer submits post buy request for mobile category, then both the seller A and seller B will get notification email about the request.
The sellers finding the quote interesting can contact the buyer for the same.
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