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If I want a way to gather item info for my stores, could I use this app to scan an item, enter a price and description, and have that info show up in a woocommerce wordpress database?

Hi,
I was wondering what you did to resolve this. I have a similar issue. I bought the
“WooCommerce Hide Products by User Roles”, which works great hiding the products from the customers, but it doesn’t hide the category listing in menus and widgets. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tony

That sounds pretty good. I haven’t seen any other plugins out there like that, so you could maybe make some money off of it! I assume there is some need out there.

I guess the absolute easiest thing form a user perspective, would be to allow the admin to email a portion of the order to whomever they want. The email that gets sent to the customer for confirmation is simple and clear, and formatted with a nice HTML table. Somehow generating a similar email based on only selected products, either manually chosen, or by choosing a category, would be great. I wonder what other store owners do in this situation?

I’ve just gotten into WordPress over the last few months, so I don’t know a lot about the nuances of writing plugins for it. My background is in HTML/CSS/JS and Rails.

Hi Jamie,
Yes, I agree it’s not the best solution. Your idea about the emails is good, and something I thought of, but the reason I thought about splitting the order up is that it gives the administrator the ability to handle each order separately. (in case of separate shipping info, billing info, etc.) You’re totally right though that it’s not a simple solution.

Tony

Hi Jamie,
I built a WooCommerce store for my client, who sells wholesale dog products. She reps about a dozen different lines of products and sells them to retail stores. When the stores place an order, they might order something like this:

Order#12345
Product A 2qty (Vendor A)
Product B 10qty (Vendor A)
Product C 12qty (Vendor B)
Product D 8qty (Vendor B)
Product E 2qty (Vendor C)
Product F 2qty (Vendor C)

Now she has this order, but has to forward the orders to each individual vendor for shipping/payment. I showed her how to export a CSV file, but that adds a number of steps, and involves chopping up a CSV file and saving separate CSV files to then email. It’s more time and added difficulty. And this example order is small. Her order could be for 10 vendors and 40 different products.

I would love a solution that just allowed her to email a version of the order confirmation email that WooCommerce sends. That email is formatted nicely and lists all of the necessary info. There’s no way that I’ve found to email only part of the order, so the hack I was thinking of was to receive order# 12345 and select certain items to split off into a new, separate order. That way she could track them separately, email notifications separately, etc.

It seems that this must be a common issue, where stores need to communicate with many vendors to fill orders. If you have any other idea of what would work I’d appreciate the input. I found plugins involving split shipping from various vendors, but they don;t solve my problem.

Thanks!
Tony