Non product content

[zmove]

Hi,

I'm studying new Web 2.0 Ecommerce solution for a store. The finalist are Prestashop & Magento.

One need of the customer is to have non-product content type in his shop. He need to create some recipes that he could categorize in several criteria (by ingredients, by dish type, by difficulty, etc....)

On the recipe page, I need to be able to add some related products, and on the product page, I need to add some related recipes.

It is possible to do that with Prestashop, if yes, what would be the best way to implement it ?

[drecroit]

In Prestashop, attribute sets are defined within individual product while Magento requires each SKU code to be defined individually.

For Example:
Presta: 1 product is needed for T-Shirt (Large/Medium/Small) and (Red/Blue/Green)
Magento: 9 products are needed for T-Shirt (Large/Medium/Small) and (Red/Blue/Green)

I think Related Product is supported in Magento. In PrestaShop, you can achieve this by putting related products into same Product Category which seems less work.

Here is how you might tackle the Product creation in Prestashop:
- create Product category for Difficulty
- create Attribute group for Dish Type, Ingredients etc
- create generic Product made up of appropriate Attribute group

i.e. a product called Curry dish
attribute groups maybe:
- meat: beef, chicken, lamb
- sauce: green curry, red curry
- herb 1: ....
- herb 2: ...
- dish type: continential, lebanese, etc
then place this product under the Product Category of appropriate Difficulty level

Good luck!

[zmove]

Hi, thank you for your answer.

But recipes are not product, what will happen if, for example, an user do a price search.. ?

My recipes will appear in the product listing with a 0 price ?

[drecroit]

Strictly speaking they are your products, although they are not stored physically, still they must be defined and tracked by system whether that is in prestashop, magneto, or others.

As mentioend already, magneto supports definition of individual product with unique attributes, I don't see how you will end up with a zero price if you had your attribute price set correctly, time to dig in and try this out.