Adding a feature by a seller for the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor MW ONE marketplace

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MODULE "ADDING CHARACTERISTICS BY THE SELLER" FOR MULTI-VENDOR

The module allows sellers to create characteristics from the product, assign them to specific categories. New characteristics are checked by the marketplace administrator. Only after the approval of the new characteristics, they become available to other sellers. The module also allows sellers to add value variants from the product to the characteristics, which can also be checked by the administrator. 

The magic of the "Characteristics for the seller" module works

The seller, when creating characteristics for the product, sees only two buttons: "Characteristic for search" and "Characteristic for variation". It creates and configures characteristics and values of characteristics within the privileges of its user group.

The administrator can only check them, make sure they are correct and approve or reject them. The sellers will do the rest themselves. This allows you to maintain order in the characteristics, and do it with a minimum of effort and cost. 

Description

Characteristics are of great importance for the work of the marketplace. It is based on the characteristics that filters are formed to search for products on the site. Buyers rely on them when choosing the right product. They compare several products with each other.

Therefore, before starting work, administrators are often forced to create a cloud of characteristics for the main categories of goods. However, it is still impossible to predict in advance all the characteristics that sellers may need. 

Creating and maintaining a cloud of characteristics

After creating the category tree, it is the turn of characteristics. For each of the categories, you need to create your own cloud of characteristics. And the marketplace administrator has to break through a lot of information, trying to guess which characteristics will be useful to sellers with goods from the "Clothing" category. And for the category "Electronics"? And for children's goods?

But no matter how hard you try, you still won't be able to foresee everything. Sellers in each of these categories will need some more characteristics and more variants (values) of these characteristics. Therefore, it is much easier and more logical to give sellers the opportunity to create characteristics and set them options (values) independently.

However, it should be borne in mind that the process of creating and configuring characteristics can be too complicated for the seller: you need to understand the goals and types of characteristics, select the necessary ones, fill out the options for characteristics. And don't get confused in all this. 

Functionality and features

Our module allows sellers to create new characteristics directly from the product of two main types: "Characteristic as a variation" and "Characteristic for search". The seller can choose the purpose of creating a characteristic, the type of display and link it to specific categories.

There are several different purposes for which characteristics are created:

• To search for a product through filters;
• To create a variation as one product;
• To create variations as multiple products;
• Brand;
• Additional information.

Product search through the filter

Based on the characteristics, filters are subsequently created for this purpose, which allow customers to quickly and easily find a product with the specified characteristics in the showcase. For example, it can be the size for clothes or shoes, the amount of memory on board and the diagonal of the screen for smartphones, the material and color for toys.

Characteristics for creating variations

Based on the characteristics for the variation, variations of goods with similar parameters are created, but differing in several characteristics, for example, clothing: one model, one color, and different size. Or a smartphone: the manufacturer and model are the same, but the amount of memory differs. Variations can be collected into one product, or they can exist as separate products, between which the buyer can switch, changing characteristics.

Brand

The characteristic for the purpose of "Brand" displays information about the brand in the product card: not only the name, but also a brief description, logo, and so on. To do this, you need to load all the necessary information into the characteristics options.

Additional information

Creation of characteristics by the seller with the module "Characteristics of the seller"

Our module changes the basic interface of the product card, adds two buttons for creating characteristics: "Add a characteristic" and "Add a characteristic for variation".

Pain: inability to control the creation of characteristics by sellers

In the basic version of the platform, the seller's administrator finds out that the seller has created a new characteristic and set some value options for it only when he opens the list of characteristics and sees that there were 1000 of them, and it became 2000. Or 10 thousand.

To find out what value options sellers have set for these characteristics, the administrator must go to each characteristic, go to the "Options" tab and view the list of options. And if there is something wrong with the characteristic itself or its values, then the administrator can only hide it, edit it manually or delete it.

And the seller will not know about this if the administrator does not personally write to him, or if he himself does not enter the characteristic.

Solution: moderation of characteristics and variants of characteristics with the module "Seller characteristics"

The Seller Characteristics module solves this problem easily and simply: adds moderation of seller characteristics. Moderation works both for the characteristics created manually from the product and for the characteristics created automatically from the import.

After creating a characteristic, it gets to moderation. The administrator studies the characteristic: the name, purpose and type, the given variants of values, the categories for which it is assigned, and, if everything is fine, approves it. After that, the characteristic becomes available to all sellers.

If something in the setting of the characteristic does not suit, the administrator rejects it, indicating the reason for the rejection. To do this, you can use pre-prepared templates or enter your comment in a free form in a special field.

Pain: sellers are not ready to understand the subtleties of setting characteristics

In addition to the goal, the characteristics have other settings: appearance and filter type. And different settings are used for different purposes. So, the characteristic for the search may look like:

• Text and number,
• Flag,
• A group of checkboxes.

And the type of filter for the characteristic for the same purpose can be four options:

• Flag,
• Date Selection,
• Slider with numbers,
• Color.

When filling out options for the value of a characteristic, it is very important to take into account its type. For example, you will not be able to enter text information into a characteristic with a numeric input.Faced with such a restriction, the seller may consider it an incorrect work of the marketplace, will be upset, will be forced to solve their tasks differently. At the same time, the administrator does not even know that such a situation has arisen.

Solution: Limiting the goals and types of characteristics for the seller

To avoid this, we gave the administrator the opportunity to restrict sellers' choice of types of characteristics. You can leave it to sellers to create characteristics of only certain types.

At the same time, the administrator still has the opportunity to create characteristics with any settings.

Restrictions are configured via "Privileges" in user groups. That is, you can give different groups of sellers different opportunities.

Interaction with other modules

The module actively interacts with the module "Import with moderation". The characteristics created from the import file also get moderated. 

Privilege settings for the user group type "Seller"

Interface for adding "Characteristics" for product search or "Characteristics for variation"

Interface for adding "Characteristics"

Accessibility in the interface of the "Target", "Appearance" and "Filter type" is configured through the privileges of the user group

Interface for adding "Characteristics for variation"

Accessibility in the interface of the "Target", "Appearance" and "Filter type" is configured through the privileges of the user group

Moderation of characteristics

After creating a characteristic, it gets to moderation. The administrator studies the characteristic: the name, purpose and type, the given variants of values, the categories for which it is assigned, and, if everything is fine, approves it. After that, the characteristic becomes available to all sellers.

Interface for checking the "Variant" of the characteristic

Interface for checking "Categories" of characteristics

Notification of moderation

If something in the setting of the characteristic does not suit, the administrator rejects it, indicating the reason for the rejection. 

To do this, you can use pre-prepared templates or enter your comment in a free form in a special field. 

Adding templates for notifications

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