#OSSC - Status Update

Until today, I have spent five days working on my open-source seller center, so it's time for an update.

⏳ The MVP's functionality is about 1/4 done. There are two user roles, each with its own panel: Sellers and the Marketplace Owner.

Sellers can register and onboard themselves. They need to provide their company data and apply to participate in the marketplace. Then they can provide their product data with variants, stock, prices, and images. I try to keep it simple but have already been greedy and implemented multi-currency support and warehouse locations.

The marketplace owner can review seller applications and accept or reject them. Then the owner can navigate the sellers' products and select which ones to sell in their own shop.

This all happens via the user interface for now; I plan to add the APIs late; most likely it will be REST.

The next feature will be the "Golden Product", which is the product that is going to appear in the owner's shop and become visible to end customers. This is probably the trickiest part for many reasons (bad data from sellers, different languages, attributes, consolidation of product data, etc.), but my plan is to use AI for the heavy lifting.

However, before I continue building features, I will use the next available day (Monday or Tuesday?) to set up the basics: website, documentation, blog, and public demo. Stay tuned!

By the way, the repository is linked in the first comment if you want to take a look or give it a ⭐. Local installation should work, but it's not yet documented.