I realize that I could post this on the SCC forum or the WAM forum but since I use VSD for the website with pages to link to the webstore am posting it here. I just want to get some general ideas from you all.

What is your ideas on how to sell items wholesale? Should I make a separate webstore and password protect the files. There will basically be all the same items in the webstore as in the wholesale webstore -- just different prices.

I had thought of just having limited access to a list of wholesale prices and have regular webpages but then there is a problem of when they are ready to order -- it is so much easier for wholesale customers to be able to order in a store.

What do you all do? What are some ways to provide wholesale that others use.

thanks for the ideas!
Kare

Well, to sell wholesale in my state you must have your wholesale buyers give you their wholesale ID number. But, I would setup a password protected site that will only allow access to those after they prove they are a wholesaler. "An Apple doth not fall far from its tree, yet an orange does."

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I think for keeping track of pricing and shipping the two shops should be separate. I think a small website describing your products as a home page then links to the two sites with one being the login to the wholesale shop. I can't hear what I'm looking at when it's so easy to overlook something I'm not looking for.
Here's my S-Drive site with
examples of what can be accomplished in VSD.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/
Here's my CoffeeCup SCCP Shop with examples of what can be done.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/shop/

Thanks guys -- guess I just wasn't wanting to go to all the trouble of setting up a completely new shop but that would be the best and less difficulty in the long run.

Guess I will get started!

Eric, Another question about your answer --- Not sure I am understanding you completely----

Say I build a website and then have a page in that website that has the links to the webstore of regular priced items.

Then I have another page in that website that has a link to the password protected page and that wholesale webstore.

Is that what you are saying?

And is Password Wizard the easiest way to go?
thanks!

Hiya Prairie,

I think you were on the right track in your first post as far as what to protect it with. You'll find a lot better setup using the WAM program for access to your wholesale shop. It's a much more robust program and can do a lot more than just that, but it definitely is more keyed to this type of thing than the Password Wizard is. Jo Ann

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I agree with JoAnn and say WAM. I can't hear what I'm looking at when it's so easy to overlook something I'm not looking for.
Here's my S-Drive site with
examples of what can be accomplished in VSD.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/
Here's my CoffeeCup SCCP Shop with examples of what can be done.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/shop/

Ok -- guess I will have links from the website to both stores and use WAM to protect the wholesale one.

thanks