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I love Prestashop and have high hopes however over the last one year I never had a single month without any issues.. I have always been living on hope that next release will solve my problems, but always create new problems.. I think its worth it for me to cough up $800 and get the Pinnacle Cart instead.

 

I have received quite a few complains from my customers about the bugs and imagine how many customer just walkaway without complains.. high cart abandon rate is seen on regular base.. for every 100 carts I only get 1 or 2 orders.

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What bugs are you seeing? The stable releases seem to be pretty clean. I have a number of client stores out there, and all use stable releases, yet not seen a complaint from customers about bugs. What version are you using?

 

Would be interested in seeing what bugs your customers are seeing.

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Usually the low cart conversion rate is because of the poor strategy of the store owner, not the bugs in the software. If you think that other shopping carts does not have bugs, you've been mistaken.

 

1-2% is very low rate. If you earn enough money from your store, try investing some in making it better.

- make a statistics of where the customers abandon the cart

- notify your customers about the abandoned cart

- ask your customers why do they abandon the cart, put polls

- Integrate some kind of live chat. Most of the customers have questions, but they do not want to wait your reply to the contact from. Even your contact form is duplicated: https://www.meccabooks.com/contact-us

- check your error log on a regular basis, perform a sample orders to see if the checkout process is smooth

- And finally. Most of the store owners think, that after installing the cart and adding some products they're done working on the site. Their work have just started at that moment. Do not expect the shopping cart to do your work as a store owner.

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Hi meccabooks,

 

As Scotty501 said, which version of PrestaShop do you use?

 

Also, do you use custom modules/themes? Have you modified the core of PrestaShop or is it an unmodified PrestaShop?

 

Currently I am using the 1.4.7 version, the error that I am receiving lately is mentioned below..I am using a template that I purchased.. but planning on switching over to the new prestashop theme..

Core has not been touched so no modifications there.. most of the modules that I have are bought from prestashop website.

 

While updating or deleting items in the cart below error comes up..

 

TECHNICAL ERROR: unable to save update quantity

 

Details:

Error thrown: [object XMLHttpRequest]

Text status: error

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I would think the below solutuon would solve it.

 

in the file classes/FrontController.php, please replace following line :

 

'content_dir' => $protocol_content.Tools::getServerName()._PS_BASE_URI_,

 

with this line :

 

'content_dir' => $protocol_content.Tools::getHttpHost()._PS_BASE_URI_,

 

Does that solve it?

 

That suggestion along with some other inputs are here. http://forge.prestashop.com/browse/PSCFI-4900?focusedCommentId=48028&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-48028

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I would think the below solutuon would solve it. in the file classes/FrontController.php, please replace following line : 'content_dir' => $protocol_content.Tools::getServerName()._PS_BASE_URI_, with this line : 'content_dir' => $protocol_content.Tools::getHttpHost()._PS_BASE_URI_, Does that solve it? That suggestion along with some other inputs are here. http://forge.prestashop.com/browse/PSCFI-4900?focusedCommentId=48028&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-48028

 

NO this did not solve the issue, however it created the same error when I click on add to cart

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