PrestaShop suitable for multi-store? / / Book & Ebook Shop /

[auceprod]

Good day dear forum

we are a small publisher http://www.artofarts.de,we publish books and e-books and now want to change our old shop systems and put all in a new shop together. We need as far as I know a shop which provides Mulitstores!

My first question to PrestaShop,is it possible to install 3 different categories in Presta shop on one side + 1 category for members only (for the authors so that they can download or purchase lower prices to shop!)

Now to my second question:
What server do I need for Presta to host? Are there any favorites or even free hosting / server services that you know and can recommend?

Then one last question that concerns me. Is Presta suitable for my projects, especially in the area of e-books, since they must indeed be made available for download after purchase!?

Thank you, apologize in advance

Regards

Frederic Bartl

[Burhan BVK]

PrestaShop does not have any features for multi store, depending on what exactly you need, you can achieve a multi store setting with some MySQL. If you search the forum you can find some discussion about how to setup multi store, but as I said, it very much depends on what exactly you want.

Instead of a different category, you can use user groups. You can create a group called authors and give them a site wide discount. As far as I know there is not an existing feature to have a separate category for certain members.

For prestashop you need a server with PHP 5 and MySQL. I have just written about it on my blog, http://www.bvkyazilim.com/cart/blog/entry/6-Finding-Cheap-E-commerce-Hosting-for-PrestaShop.

PrestaShop supports virtual products. You can upload the e-book when you enter the product details, set number of days to download etc. The user will be able to download the e-books after the payment is received.

[tomerg3]

As whitelighter mentioned, you can create a different group for the 3 types of visitors.

You CAN however give each category (and products inside it) access by the group, when you create or edit a category, you can choose which groups have access to it.