How can I learn about the workings of Presta, especially pricing and associating products?

[AA2]

I am looking for the right e-commerce platform that I can use for branded and decorated products.

The basic case is I have a lot of suppliers with varying pricing methods. I sell decorated products (embroidery, screen printing etc).

The decorations are all priced by tables, with volume price tiers and pricing varying by some details such as "number of colours" for screen print, "number of stitches" for embroidery, things like this.

I sell Promo Merch like cups, pens, hats etc, plus Apparel, Print, and Signage. Apparel is never decorated by the supplier, Promo Merch is always decorated by the supplier, and Print and Signage are all "decorated" by definition and there is no decoration charge.

I've checked out WooCommerce, but the way that system works, the entire thing is centred on the product having one price, which you need to alter by applying discounts and codes and such. But the products I sell have volume price tiers which are totally different for every product and I can't recreate these with simple methods like "5% off for 100+, 10% off for 250+" or similar. The CSV files my suppliers have follow a particular industry format, with "price_1" to "price_9" and "volume_1" to "volume_9". So, I can easily upload this at the product import stage, with no need to add any discounts or special conditions or anything like that.

But will this work for Presta?

The decorations also have price tiers, but they have more variables as described above. I think a 2D price table can be implemented as a group of products like this:

• "screenprint-small-1colours"
• "screenprint-small-2colours",
• "screenprint-small-3colours",
• "screenprint-small-4colours",
• "embroidery-under10K"
• "embroidery-10K-15K"

and so on. Alternatively, a "decoration" function (or routine or method or whatever you kids call these things these days) could look up the product in the database and check out what kind of product it is, who the supplier is, and then spit out the decoration options.

It gets a little more tricky than this - e.g. we need to group similar products to select the right volume tier for decoration: 5 x 100 shirts of different sizes/colours all getting the same embroidery would qualify for the 500 price, not 5 x 100 price. The products should be grouped by job (each artwork has its own separate setup cost and counts as a separate volume count) and by decorator (apparel all goes to one contract decorator, so all apparel getting the same artwork would all be the same job, but promo merch would be grouped by supplier, because those suppliers all decorate in-house - so even the same artwork going on items from more than 1 supplier would be set up separately and charged for separate set-ups).

I don't know how Presta works, so I would really like to know whether these considerations are bearable. Woo is very much not a real ecommerce platform and that fixation on the "anchor" price really breaks my use case. I'm hoping that Presta works a little differently.

Cheers,

John

[El Patron]

Hi,  here is link to official .doc  Your product vertical will require addon modules so you should first determine if PS has the features available you require.

 

http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS17/User+Guide

[AA2]

Thank you - I'll check it out and see!