My company is using Ablecommerce to power-up a e-commerce site for a company that has several physical stores in Portugal. They want the website as a front-end to receive orders and the physical locations will deal with the actual delivery of goods. Additional they have logistic partners to dispatch the goods from the specific physical store to the final customer. As a final point, they want to assign a specific order to the physical store based on the Zip code. We are finding this harder to support using ablecommerce:
• Zones can be defined as zip codes and we can define as much Zones as physical stores, so this can work to define what will be the final store; • One product can only be assigned to one warehouse (one hypotheses that we had was creating as much warehouses as stores and assigning the products to all, but this logic is not supported using Ablecommerce);
• We can define each store as Shipping Methods and link each method to a Specific Zone. Yet, if we have tree Shipping Methods we need to replicate that for the number of physical stores we have, so it will be a nightmare to manage this;
• Additionally our client has a requirement that each store only sees the orders assigned to that store, and we do not know if this is possible with Ablecommerce and the above requirement.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Luís Duarte