Multi-merchant e-commerce commodity model

In recent days in the design of multi-merchant e-commerce commodity model, has designed several programs. Each program has its own characteristics, there is no best solution, only the most suitable solution. Here is a brief description of the various scenarios.

1. Decentralized commodity models

Under this model, the various attributes of goods and products are managed separately by each merchant (or region). will produce a large number of duplicate data, the same product does not have a unified format, late statistical analysis difficult. The advantages are simple structure, easy to understand and fast development.

2. Platform centralized management of commodity models

Under this model, the platform manages the goods uniformly. Add product unification is done by the platform, or the merchant is added and submitted to the Platform for Review. The platform realizes the unified management of goods. But businesses need to maintain all the attributes of a single product, there is a lot of duplication of data, the platform is difficult to manage and statistics on a single product level.

3. Platform centralized management of the single product model

In this model, the previous model is divided into the product attributes and sales attributes, split into the basic items and a single item.

The basic item only has the Product attribute (specification) of a single product, and each basic item can uniquely identify an entity. can be differentiated according to the international barcode, the basic and bar code is a one-off relationship.

The single product inherits from the basic single product, and adds the sales attribute on the basis of the basic item. Each individual product can uniquely identify a sales entity, which is the basic unit of a shopping cart, order, and inventory record.

In this way, the platform to further strengthen the control of goods, the standard platform for the sale of goods, can be carried out in the commodity level of statistical analysis; When you add a product, you only need to select the basic items that have been set up, and then set the sales attributes, which greatly saves the amount of work added to the product. However, a large number of commodity maintenance work to the platform to deal with, the platform management put forward higher requirements. Moreover, the requirement platform to control the information of the goods and the single product, the information content whole platform unification, thus loses the merchant to the commodity the personalization controls. This form is more suitable for the head office-the regional company type of e-commerce, the region does not have a competitive relationship, do not need a personalized element.

4. Mixed commodity model

This model is the combination of model 1 and Model 3, not only for businesses to provide a basic commodity prototype, there is open to the business of certain rights to modify, allowing businesses to edit personalized products. The disadvantage is that each merchant adds goods, the quantity of goods re-expands, the logic is complex, is not conducive to understanding and rapid development.

Summarize

The above list of four kinds of commodity models, each has its own characteristics. There is no best model, only the most suitable model. It needs to be flexibly selected according to the platform features.

Multi-merchant e-commerce commodity model