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I know how annoying it is when people keep asking when it will be available, almost like kids in the car "Are we nearly there yet". So I won't ask. lol

I do however have some questions, I'm very interested in your product and love the idea of being able to have one shop 1 design for say virtual products, then another shop another design for maybe cloths and another shop another design for Wii games whist having one user base and one admin.

I presume multiple shops with Presta could work like this?

And the next question.

Suppose I'm too eager and want to have those shops now, could I make 3 shops, 5 shops, or however many shops and then when this upgrade is ready would you have some way of making them all one shop, ie a multi-shop?

Would it also be possible to use sub domain and/or folder

wii.mydomain.com
services.mydomain.com

and/or

mydomain.com/wii
mydomain.com/services

and would it also be possible to use totally separate domains?

How do you plan on installing these?

one main install and then each sub install would simply use the headers to determine the right shop? kind of like wordpress MU deals with it's user accounts in both subdomain and folder mode. (They also have a plugin for different domains).

Oh and are we nearly there yet? ;-) lol (I don't expect this last question answered hehe)

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I know how annoying it is when people keep asking when it will be available, almost like kids in the car "Are we nearly there yet". So I won't ask. lol


:lol:

I do however have some questions, I'm very interested in your product and love the idea of being able to have one shop 1 design for say virtual products, then another shop another design for maybe cloths and another shop another design for Wii games whist having one user base and one admin.

I presume multiple shops with Presta could work like this?


Exactly : one database, one Back Office, multiple Front Offices.

And the next question.

Suppose I'm too eager and want to have those shops now, could I make 3 shops, 5 shops, or however many shops and then when this upgrade is ready would you have some way of making them all one shop, ie a multi-shop?


Hmmm, you could, of course, but Multiple Shops will not be implemented in PS for another two months at least....

Would it also be possible to use sub domain and/or folder

wii.mydomain.com
services.mydomain.com

and/or

mydomain.com/wii
mydomain.com/services

and would it also be possible to use totally separate domains?


Yes.


How do you plan on installing these?

one main install and then each sub install would simply use the headers to determine the right shop? kind of like wordpress MU deals with it's user accounts in both subdomain and folder mode. (They also have a plugin for different domains).


We're not sure yet about how it will be deployed but thanks for the tip, we will definitely take it into consideration. :)

Oh and are we nearly there yet? ;-) lol (I don't expect this last question answered hehe)


Again, this is a post-v1.0 stable feature. We're still a few weeks away from v1.0 stable, so it's safe to assume that a fresh build with functioning Multiple Shops is at least a month or more beyond that....
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Wow, thanks.

I was only joking with the last the comment, but I most certainly appreciate the information.

I just really like how your shop works, for many years I used OSC then Zencart, but now I'd like something with a little more humph, something that's going some where and as I keep saying, I really like Prestashop.

Thanks once again for taking the time to reply to me.

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I was also thinking about SSL.

If sub domains or separate domains are used this could increase the cost of running a secured shop on-line dramatically.

Could there be an option for admin to set it so that after a customer adds items in a shop, when they check out they are processed through the main shop. This would then allow one SSL to secure the website and as only one domain would be used.

Obviously if folder install was used this wouldn't be an issue, as the certificate would cover the whole domain.

mydomain.com/wii
mydomain.com/services

Allowing the check out in one main shop, would also make it easier to cross sell and sell from other shops in this installation. The main install could feature the cool products from each shop and also allow people to add them there. These options could be set by the admin.

Sorry just thinking out a loud, but they that would be cool.

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How will checkout work on this? Will each store have it's own checkout, or will they be consoliated onto one? The later makes sense as we may need only one SSL, and might make integration with payment gateways easier. Just a thought. :)

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Seem Multiple shop no release yet
Anyone know how to share the Customer in the database

mean I have shopA.com & shopB.com with difference products. Back office management will not across each other, but I like to share customer both. Any idea?

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All the customer details are encapsulated by the Customer object class. In theory you could install two shops in the same database using different db prefixes. You would then modify the Customer.php in one of the stores to reference the "shared" customer table, so you can have a single login, by using the same db prefix. For password hashing to work you'll also need to use a single key in all the stores.

HOWEVER

There are lots of other tables that are customer related, which would mean that you will only have a single store view of the customer account in each "shop", e.g. viewing customer order history would be specific to orders from that single "shop" rather than across all the shops.

To overcome this you would need to determine which parts of the database can be shared, and modify the class files appropriately to reference them.

Paul

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I'm planning to implement multiple shops as well, since I can't wait for the module to come out and my shops share most of their settings and preferences, except the products and layout. My plan is to use a different base category for each shop, thus seperating the products but keeping the rest of the shop preferences general. Based on the user's current category I can then call different themes per shop (after hacking smarty engine a bit)...

Comments & critique are welcome... as I'm not sure if there's anything else I should be paying attention to.

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I noticed your Final had been released now and three beta's of the new version.

I couldn't see much information so thought I would drop a note asking the dreaded question again.

Is the multishop integrated yet, or will it be before your next final?

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That's a great shame, it's a feature I'm dying for.

You are making great strides here and this project is amazing so I'll keep checking in from time to time and I'll keep my fingers crossed for a nice Christmas supprise :-).

Thanks for getting back to me.

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