LeGastronome Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Hi, If someone have an idea... I am just wondering : I have a prestashop 1.3 with core modifications to redirect right languages depending domain name : www.pomme.fr => French www.apple.co.uk => English www.manzana.es => spain Each domain are different, logo are different and shop name too... but shop feed are the same (discount, products, categories, cms, clients...) only template and text is translated.... With 1.5 : it works fine with multishop. Each shop have one logo, name and one language activated... But I am wondering if is it not too heavy to work with multishop only to manage language by domain name, logo and shop name ? Database is doubled for each shop, this is not very efficient... as I will always work on the group, because each shop will have same products, discount, clients etc... What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGastronome Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 In documentation : , so multishop is not for me.. but ? Here are two questions that you should ask yourself before deciding to enable the multistore feature: Do you want your shops to have a different price for the same product (besides special discounts for a client or group of clients).If the answer is 'yes', then you need to use the multistore feature. When a client buys from one shop, would you want him or her to not have access that shop's order history and invoices from the other shop (even if the client have the same login credentials on both shops).If the answer is 'yes', then you need to use the multistore feature: the shops will not share their carts and orders, and customers putting items in their cart for shop 1 will not see these items in their cart for shop2. If the answer is 'no' for both questions, then the multistore feature is not for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 a multishop is for anyone that is selling in more than one country... i.e. you default shop is a .com but let's say your default country is the .uk then you should also use a .uk ccTLD and let's say you also sell in France and Germany, then you should also have a .fr and .de ccTLD domains. it's all about the SEO.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGastronome Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 I agree but we don't need multishop, we already have ccTLD for each country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 don't you want to set each domains default country/language etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGastronome Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 yes but DB is doubled for each shop, and it's not necessary to surcharge our server with same data ! We wondering if it's not more efficient to just redirect to right language depending on domain name, instead of creating multi shops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 db is not doubled for each shop if they are shared across shops...assuming products are same on each domain...and even it it wasn't most hosting doesn't really put much of a restraint on db size... the MOST important things IMHO and in this order are 1) default country 2) default language and then 3) default currency..changing language based on anything but the browse language is just guessing anyway...but if the come into your .de site and your default langauge is German...it's the same as hack on domain name... why is country important? because non-logged customers for your .de site will see the correct prices/discounts/shipping/taxes etc... 1.5 will allow multiple domain names for single shop...but you lose the country/lang/currency and all the rest of the goodies.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGastronome Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 (edited) yes I know... it's not doubled but there are more queries and server charges... Managing the BO is more complex in multishop if you don't want to have different prices, discount and module for each shop ? And.. there are some bugs with product management in multishop Is it may be better to just hack currency and language by domain name ? And keep only one shop ? What do you think ? 1.5 will allow multiple domain names for single shop...but you lose the country/lang/currency and all the rest of the goodies..? why ? Edited November 9, 2012 by LeGastronome (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I'd quit worrying about the technical under the hood stuff...i.e. db's etc...if you have some constraing hosting provider dump them and move on...this is not a problem for you as you can use any IP address given you use ccTLD's ps catalog is designed at the country level... perfect (almost) for geo targeting....I say almost because on can not assign category by country...doh! having different default country for each domain really opens up the door for all the others things ps bases on country. with a multishop your customer experience will be improved because then you also have lots of other pieces that are now incorrect... opionts? (1) you could however put them all in one shop and use my geo pricing pro (in 1.5 testing and working), this sets your visitors country based on IP...why? unlogged visitors will see your ps default country configuration until they log in...so it's impossible without this or a true multishop to present a consistent by country catalog. (2) assuming still on 1.3 or 1.5 use my multishop pro module...it does what you want on a single installation....both are solid one clickers running on many shops.. what do I really think? that I'm half genius..jajajajajaja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGastronome Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 no!... every visitor on .es domain will see spanish website log in or log out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 look...if you can't see beyond language....then I can't help you.... good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGastronome Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 I just try to find what is beyond language if shop are the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadlyblue Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 i just whished domainbylang worked in 1.5. it was perfect for what we need... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpe09ag Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 i just whished domainbylang worked in 1.5. it was perfect for what we need... I as well need I a more simple solution like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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