Gomlers Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 We want to expand our business and run two stores from the same backoffice. This is how we are planning it: www.store1.com: Focusing on chairs. www.store2.com: Focusing on chairs as well, but also tables and other furniture. So Store 2 will share the CHAIRS-category with Store 1. But - I'm having a hard time setting this up correctly - either I'm not doing it right, or the multistore feature is kind of buggy. If the Multistore-feature in Prestashop is too young and buggy, I don't want to use it. Store 1 already exist today, and have lots of customers and orders every day, and I really don't want to loose out on changing to multistore, if we find that it was a bad idea because of too much bugs. Is there anyone here that uses multistore with success, and want to share they knowledge on the following concerns: (?) My biggest concern right now is to manage Categories and Root Categories. Among other things it looks like there is no unique category ID's for the separate stores. So if I want to hide "Category Sofa" (ID 4) from Store 1, that's not possible, because Store 1 also have a Category ID 4 - called "Chairs". Category Root for store 2 will be a sub-category of the Root Category for Store 1. This can't be correct - is it a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Removing Store 2 from Category Root "Home", will cause my prestashop installation entering an never ending loop, when trying to go to Categories from Store 2.. Etc.. etc.. So again - does anyone else experience the same problems - or even other problems I may run into in the future? - Or am I doing something very wrong? Any tips from someone who uses the multistore feature would be highly appreciated. Should I go for it, or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubergirl Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Have you found a solution? Did you try creating two sets of categories with the same and/without different sub-cats? Site1: root - 11-sofas - 12-chairs - 13-tables site 2 - 14 sofas - 15-small sofas - 16-med sofas -17-large sofas Then, in each item, you select the appropriate "sofa" category, 11 or 15... (do you understand my meaning?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Reimer Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Multistore has been buggy for me so far. About ready to give up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadlyblue Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 We use multistore for quite some time now, with 5 stores ahsring stocks and products and had no major bugs. Just small changes needed to be made or things that we did one way, now do differently to get the same result. I recommend multishop when someone needs to target multiple markets, geographical and/or segment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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