Questions on Starting Multistore on existing Shop

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Hello,

 

I read already quite some topics on Multistore but nothing that gave answer to my questions so I opened a specific topic on it.

 

We recently migrated an existing shop from 1.4 to the latest 1.5.6 specifically for Multistore feature. The shop exists in 3 languages and it'd be better if it was split up per country with a specific domain for each country (SEO reasons).

 

e.g:

www.car.co.uk (main shop)

www.voiture.fr

www.machina.it

 

The shop has to be the same in all 3 languages, only the domains and so the logos will differ. For 1 Shop the prices of the products will be a bit different as well.

 

So I'm now here with my shop in 1.5.6. I enable Multistore and I find my Shop in Group "Default". Creating a new Group makes it possible to create new shops.

What is the right way for me to setup this?

 

- Do I leave my main shop (www.car.co.uk) in Group Default and do I create a New Group for the other 2 Shops?

- Or do I re-create all 3 Shops in a new group? Problem then is that Default and 1 of the other Shops will carry same domain

 

Can I "copy" the Main shop to the new group and their Shops?

 

All tips and advice welcome.

 

PS: what about accounting consequences of Multistore? I each Shop handled separately or can the monthly results be retrieved on global level? 

[Nadia Ly]

My advise to you is to avoid multistore feature until it gets better developed....  Yor first shop goes fine? good...dont mess this up and have a different instalation.... On the second one you might need to reinstall prestashop a couple of times to make sure it works fine, but the first shop will be safe... 

At the end running 2 stores separatedly is as ok as running 1 and a half, just safer...

Prestashop is not so solid as we all would wish...