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I have a small project that I tried to find out of the box solution. The project is about a company that always want to buy ink toner from many sources. The source will always email them like an excel sheet that listing all of the toner (like how many, condition).
and the seller would like to know one price that our company is willing to buy (included shipping).

This situation looks like buying a house. But it is little more than house is - It is including shipping.

Let me know if you know any out of the box app solution that may be we can subscribe.  Hoping minimize codings as much as possible.
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I think this looks like it can be easy to create on your own with some manual work on the front end.

  • The source will always email them like an excel sheet that listing all of the toner (like how many, condition)
  • he seller would like to know one price that our company is willing to buy (included shipping).

Each source is probably going to have their own spreadsheet layout and as you code this, you will have to take this into account. (One may have columns for condition, quantity and the other will have quantity and condition).  Part of the coding will be to create different import templates and more advanced, allow the end user/non-coder to create these import templates. The next part is to import the data to your database. The next to the final step is to apply your own business rules for determining the price with shipping. Lastly, generate a response via email or print out with the offer.

I don't think you will find an out of the box solution for this, but it will also not be very expensive to hire somebody to create this for you either. If you spent $1K to $3K to develop, you will save that in your own time and efficiency pretty quickly.
It wouldn't be difficult to setup a B2B e-commerce website that your suppliers would be able to update their products.  using a package such as Prestashop or OpenCart would allow you to do this for free and would include shipping options. You can modify the packages to do the B2B thing that would actually send the order to the seller and charge your card or even do purchase orders as well.