Flmbx Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Hello, I'm still on 1.4.9 but I think I might need the multistore functionality. I gathered some info on the subject by surfing around but I'm not 100% sure whether I need it or not. Description of my problem: We are about to run a shop that ideally would need to be divided into 3 separate stores. Currently the shop is ready and is built on a french domainname but is available in 5 languages. Today I registered a dutch and spanish domain because we'd like to split the main shop into 3shops. The main french shop available in 3 languages, the dutch domain takes over the dutch language and the spanish domain will run the spanish language. It's not just a different country-extension (.fr,.es), the 3 domain names are very different in between eachother as they are language-specific. By that, the spanish shop will need specific product prices. => Is multistore our solution for this? Can I link a domain to a specific "language" of the main store? Each store will have his proper domainname showing for every page of each store? I saw multistore is available already for 1.4.x (addonmodule). Or is it considered to upgrade my main shop first to 1.5.x where multistore is available by default? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 for each additional shop, either with the 1.4 module (which is mine) or for 1.5, you set the default shops language to the one that best fits your needs. Basically each shop can be set up to default to lang/currency etc... The 1.5 multishop is 'very' robust and if you are moving into a multishop/multiplexed(same content multiple domains) then upgrading to 1.5 is advisable. For specific prices for Spain, this can be accomplished by enabling geo localization and setting specific prices by country. You may want to look at mass update module for specific prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flmbx Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 thank you so if I understand well I could enable the language English in all 3 shops for example without harming Google for duplicate content since the domainnames are all 3 different. So you advise me to upgrade to 1.5.x. Coming from 1.4.9 what 1.5 version would be good to migrate to? Where can I find those upgrades? Is it difficult? Is it an automatical procudure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 thank you so if I understand well I could enable the language English in all 3 shops for example without harming Google for duplicate content since the domainnames are all 3 different. So you advise me to upgrade to 1.5.x. Coming from 1.4.9 what 1.5 version would be good to migrate to? Where can I find those upgrades? Is it difficult? Is it an automatical procudure? when using same content across multiple domains, you will want to use ccTLD's to avoid duplicate content. You may however (when in 1.5 multishop) be able to disable languages by shop (no positive). as for upgrading, this can not be answered with any assurance by me. Each shop is a bit different. I am upgrading soon and I am going to pay someone to do it. more (important) reading: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flmbx Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 oops... is upgrading really that tricky? will check some subjects on upgrading her on the forum then. thank you for your tips! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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