Looking for a cart that can handle affiliate sales

[topgun21]

I have a client who sells pond supplies on a wholesale level. He would like to build an ecommerce site, which would hold his whole product catalog, then allow his wholesale vendors to sign-up and choose between 3 or 4 different site design templates. These retail vendors could then setup their own online stores, but their customers would actually be viewing the wholesalers product catalog database when they look for products within the retailers satelite site. When the retailer's customer places an order it's processed via the wholesaler's system and the wholesaler ships directly. Does anyone know if a preprogrammed cart like this exists?

[sub_kovert]

This sounds like a bespoke design job to me. Many carts (I use www.cactushop.com) support affiliate sales through a single site, but I am not aware of any that have the functionality you are looking for. Cactushop 6 (new version) also supports a thing called 'selling groups' - this allows you to specify products that only an approved list of customers can view or buy.

[orange655321]

Hello,
This can be done with some customization to an open source shopping cart. If you want subdomains to use the data base of the wholesale products then it has all kinds of issues....such as who wants to own a "store" at a subdomain or where you dont control the real check out process.

A better solution would be to have a shopping cart platform and the wholesale store. The owners use the platform and host it. You can customize the shopping cart so the "parent" store (the wholesale store) actually updates the substores run by the resellers.

If the resellers are selling all of the same products and they just need to add content to a site and have a new template, then contact www.sourcefuse.com. We www.inventorysource.com have worked with them before to help other clients trying to manage a small wholesale program like this and I am sure they can custom design a solution for your needs.

Also, you can work with a hosting partner and platform system to give you your own turnkey sites which you can sell to your clients. This might be more then what you need, but if it is then contact support@inventorysource.com and we can see what might work best for developing a solution.

[shannonlp]

CubeCart has this functionality included in the core software.