We're launching a marketplace with ~15 independent shops but might start with our own stock first. For those running multi-vendor: was the branch/vendor model easy to reason about? And is switching modes later painful?
We started single-vendor to keep it simple, then flipped to multi-vendor once we onboarded partners. The catalogue stays shared (master data) and only stock is per branch, which kept our product info from being re-entered. Switching changed order routing and settlement, so test it on a staging copy.
Multi-vendor from day one here. The "customer picks the nearest branch first, then shops it" flow is exactly how our grocery model works.
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