Hi Nicolas,
1 - Warehouse linked to Vendor
Many Thanks, I'm staying tuned and remaining available...
2 - Warehouse Lat / Lng
"...What would be the use in showing the warehouses on the map of the vendor page ? ..."
A practical information to the User that can be really useful for several things, like:
--- A Vendor can have multiple points of sale, where their products can be purchased in person, and is pleased to show them on the map, avoiding being contacted for trivial questions such as: "where can I see / buy the product?"
--- A Vendor may have "Pick and Pay" as a shipping method from some of its "Warehouses", so the customer needs to know where they are located to decide where they want the product to be made available for pickup.
--- With the exact point location (Latitude / Longitude) we can add searches by "distance to a point".
etc.
--- PS - Consider that each Vendor has at least one Warehouse, from where items are delivered, that can be different from the fiscal Company address.
3 - Warehouse stock management
"...I'm not clear on this. Wouldn't you already be able to do all that with a characteristic "warehouse" where you would add the warehouses as values ?..." = Practically Yes, but I also suggested How to do it in the simplest way, How to show it into the Hika interface and What we need to pay attention to. Following my approach example:
A - When a "Warehouse" is created it will be associated to Vendors, (point 1) it should create that Variant for the standard ."Warehouse characteristic" and it will be available for the associated Vendors for all their products.
Vendors = plural, also more than one Vendor. it's not a mistake. Because a Warehouse could be a "Point of Sale / Pick and Point" (like a Mall) for more than one Vendor.
B - Following the temporally solution suggestion, by default Hika should has the "Warehouse characteristic" listed into RESTRICTIONS AND DIMENSIONS (not listed into characteristic):
- "by default" = It means that all Vendors will have the "Warehouse characteristic" with at least one item, each Vendor has at least one Warehouse that can be different from the fiscal Company address.
- "listed into RESTRICTIONS AND DIMENSIONS" = I mean that this "Warehouse characteristic" will replace the "Product > RESTRICTIONS AND DIMENSIONS > Warehouse" selection, a characteristic ask also to select the default "Warehouse characteristic" value.
(While the "Warehouse characteristic" will be "hidden" into the "Product > SPECIFICATIONS > Characteristics: ...")
When set, into the Variants Tab:
C - then into the Product > Variants tab the "Warehouse" (characteristic) will be always shown in first position by default and there the Vendor will can always manage the products for all his Warehouses...
Was I able to better explain myself ? Do you agree ?
4 - Barcode stock management
Many Thanks!