Hello guys! My name is Matheus Matos and I just found the Solidus project. I'm searching for an open-source project to build two projects: - a common store, for a digital-native cosmetics brand; - a marketplace platform with multiple stores/vendors inside the same site/app; My first candidate was Saleor.io because I've some experience with Django/Python world, but it doesn't support multiple stores/vendors and it's not planned by project leaders. I've seen that one of the Solidus use cases is Marketplace, but I haven't found a specific guidance about the

Store

model. There's something available to learn more about it? Thanks!

I'll admit that marketplaces it not my area of expertise, but there are a few options out there. I'm not really sure about the current state of them, but there exists https://github.com/solidusio-contrib/solidus_paypal_marketplace and https://github.com/boomerdigital/solidus_marketplace. If you're going to build your own, then the

Spree::Store

model does provide you the foundation for separating your catalogues per store, etc. You'll end up having to do your own work on the frontend and around permissions management to implement exactly the business logic you need, but the foundation is definitely there for you to build upon.

Hi Jared, thanks for the quick response. That totally makes sense. Each marketplace has specific rules and it's a bit complicated to build something that works for everyone. I"ll try to investigate better the cited projects and the Solidus/Spree itself to understand how I can implement my own rules. I"ll share my progress with the community here. Thanks!