I've played around with the Merchant Module in the demo, which allows your users to be able to add / edit products in your Store Catalog.
 
http://www.viart.com/merchant_module.html
 
My questions is, how does this work in the real world?
 
- there doesn't seem to be an automated email that goes the the "merchant user" to let them know there's been a sale
 
- i don't see anything inside the Admin Product Edit area that identifies who the "merchant user" is
 
- how do you track who's selling what and if the order is fullfilled?
 
 
The reason that I ask, it would be amazing to setup the catalog so that my suppliers can add their own products and upon being ordered, get invoiced, ship the product to the customer and then reply back to me with a tracking number or something. (aka dropshipping)
 
Is this something I would have to manually do?
 
Thank you,
-Colin