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Hey all,

I posted this in another forum section, but wanted to get some opinions on whether this can be achieved.

basically, I live in Australia, and my mate in the UK.

We are hoping that users can choose which shop to buy from.
I mean, we could perhaps start off with just the one shop, here, or there, but we would lose out on customers from the furtherest away destination, if they don't want to pay for that much shipping. When we buys stock, initially, we get 50-50 split, then we would obviously have to add the same products, but under a different category perhaps?
I was thinking of having 2 top tier categories, uk & australia, then all sub categories under that.??

I really am having a hard time working this one out at the moment.

Does anyone have any clear suggestions to help?, this is gonna be one hell of an awesome toyshop (design & functionality wise(< and would really help publicity *If I can get the thing working...).

is it worth sticking to one shop just to get it up an running?, or run 2 websites?
The whole thing we want to do, is each time a person purchases, they get points that can also be used throughout the site...

Thanks for any input, I am really puzzled as to how to do this...

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Re: one cart, two locations, is it possible?

i have worked out similar situations previous clients of mine had and my firm's suggestion was to gobalize the business, that is, provide a seamless view to your customers in regard to where they're buying from. On the "backend" you and your partner can decide where the products get shipped from and to where; some products could only ship from one location, which would be noted in the body of the product description..........
wow i'm rambling.

but the last part about points, what do you mean? the juicer module that's used on this site is pretty sweet Smiling

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heya mate, I see where you

heya mate,

I see where you are coming from,

Buying stuff just gives you extra points etc. These points are built across the website for users, ie, purchases, forum posting, etc etc. points an then be used for extra things..

One thing we wanted to get across, is that it is a global website, but countries play a big part in it. So, same as apple.com, for the united states, Australia, europe etc, we need to associate products from each country.

it's a biggie, but looking at this, we will prolly have to go with the one shop only for now unfortunately. the other thing is that I haven't found a decent Australia post module yet for ubercart. i know Ecommerce has one.

Anyhow, will keep working into this, but thanks for your comments, it's a very good consideration.