| tamgirl 2007-07-31, 7:41 pm |
| Hello all,
I apologize if this is not the right place to be posting my question, but I wasn't really sure where to start. I'm planning to start a web-based business soon, but I have a few design concerns so I'm hoping you can help me out. I'm not going to bore you with the details of the site, but basically it will consist of a directory of several products for sale from several different vendors. As I do not plan to carry any inventory myself nor do I plan to take any profit off the actual purchase, my question is, can a site be designed so that a customer could select multiple items for purchase from these various vendors and seemingly pay for them through my site?
I envision some sort of coding/program that would run the orders to each individual company via my website, which would provide all of the customer information to each company (i.e. shipping info). They would then be filling the orders directly from this information.
I realize that this is very vague and that each company will be set up differently, but I'm just trying to figure out if anything like this is indeed possible. I feel that it must be as it is the same concept as dropshipping, only I would be using multiple vendors on one order.
Another option I may have to consider is having the customers actually pay me and then my site automatically generates an order to the company using funds from my business but with their shipping address. I would rather have their payment going to these companies directly, but split billing like that may not be possible. However, I'm not even sure this is something that can be automated. I definitely don't want to be placing orders to each individual site myself, which is the whole point of having the customer buy from multiple companies at one site.
Well, I hope that isn't too confusing. Thank you for your time and I would appreciate any help you may be able to provide! |