Marketplace - Merchant Corner

[JPC-Greg]

It occurs to me as I order things online all the time that we are hosting tons of small businesses trying to make as living selling some of these things. Would you guys like and actually use a forum or section setup here, maybe seperated using subforms into categories, where you can post your business postcard?

If we need something and some of our clients sell it I would like to help you out if we can. And there may be others in the community here and in our client base that are also like minded.

What are some suggestions for this marketplace?

[lokki]

Great idea, Greg. Sort of a family approach...

A new forum would probably be the best way to start, or perhaps you could set up a subdomain 'virtual mall' sort of thing where vendors could apply for admission?

[shwn]

I would love it if Jag had a section for merchants! For starters, maybe all that would be needed in terms of categories would be two: one for “self promotion” and another for general e-commerce questions, issues, problems.

[JPC-Greg]

a requests/questions forum and then a sellers forum

[imnotted]

I think that would be cool. I'm supposed to be setting up an estore relatively soon, and it would be nice to see what other users are doing with JPC.

[JPC-Greg]

what kind of setup do you guys think we should have in the market place, like sub forums ? what kinds of categories?

[Connie]

Merchant account providers and gateways

[shwn]

I notice there now is a marketplace but it doesn't look like it would be the appropriate place to bring up questions about things like security, PCI compliance, custom shopping cart solutions, integration with gateways, choosing a merchant account provider, etc.

It would be nice to have a forum for merchant's issues apart from advertising. A separate e-commerce forum perhaps?

[JPC-Greg]

You could ask that stuff right here in this forum I suppose? Might be a good idea though to break merchant and ecommerce issues into a forum.