I have standard plan of Big Commerce store.
I have to integrate product filter dropdowns in my store. So which is the best way to achieve this functionality.
Kindly suggest
Thanks in advance
You have a few options:
1.) Upgrade to a Pro or Enterprise plan, and activate product filtering.
2.) Install a product filtering app and configure.
3.) Make a purely JavaScript solution where you hit different product list pages and append results to the current page.
4.) Make a standalone PHP app (or other BC API supported language) and use JS to hit and display the filtered products on your page.
Options 1 & 2 require no code. Options 3 & 4 could take lots of hours to implement. It depends what your budget is, and the requirements of your project.
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I'm new to Prestashop but perfectly able to modify the sources.
How could I limit access to a given product to only one given group 24 hours before the other groups ?
Thanks for answering this.
By default Prestashop does not offer this feature. You can enable or disable access for the whole group which apply for all products.
You will need to write a module your self or buy a module which does this for you.
Searching the WWW i have found this module which is free (http://store.nemops.com/free-modules/44-product-access.html) however not compatible with 1.7. With some basic PHP knowledge you can easily upgrade the module to 1.7.
You can also find multiple paid modules which does this for you (https://addons.prestashop.com/en/search?search_query=product%20access)
I want to add new field in prestashop product backoffice . This tab is same description tab.Please find attached screenshot what I need .
Thanks
Prestashop overrides their core (all their code files) every time you use the one-click-update in order to prevent developers to mess with their core.
Any modification on this page will be overridden on your next update unless you are willing to update the files manually with FTP and the database via PHPMyAdmin (or with MySQL workbench via remote connection) without overriding anything related to this interface.
I strongly advise you against this as you'll most certainly face incompatibility between your version and Prestashop core pretty quickly.
If you think your request is good for the whole community, you might try to pull a suggestion here: http://forge.prestashop.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa
Do not put to much hope on this as Prestashop team is quite busy.
If it's something specific to your shop, you'll need to hire a freelancer to as suggested by Raghubendra Singh in his comment. I'll add to his comment that it will need to be in a custom module. You might try to pull a proposal on this website: https://www.upwork.com/
If you do so, make sure that the developer you hire have a good experience both with PHP/MySQL and Prestashop itself (as it is a complex system). Even if you hire a developer from Filipino or India, you'll probably need to invest at least a thousand US dollars in order to have something sharp.
Also, please note that you'll need to hire the developer once more at least for every major update (by example 1.7.X => 1.8.X) to fix the incompatibility with Prestashop core.
the simplest way is to use an addon. For instance, this one.
It allows adding an unlimited number of tabs, some of them have a predefined structure (contact form or attachments). Others are changeable. So it's possible to add any content you need: additional pictures, video, text, etc.
I have to integrate my webshop with an external system. This system provides several functionalities, described in their API. This is what I want to do:
Import/sync products (this is available as CSV via request)
Update stock of products (also available as webrequest)
So I have to hook into the Magento stock check and I want some script which updates the products like everyday.
Where should I implement my changes? What is the best way to do this? I can imagine Magento already have some API stock functionalities, but can`t seem to find the right documentation.
Thanks in advance!
Firstly you could use the Magento web service via either SOAP and XML-RPC:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/introduction.html#Introduction-SOAP
There's an API for updating stock levels:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/catalogInventory/cataloginventory_stock_item.update.html
However, this is usually quite slow and can take some time to update large collections of products, in which case you are better going for a solution which uses the Magento object model directly, or something custom.
Depending upon your level of development expertise there's a few options available. One library to checkout is Magmi:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/magmi/index.php?title=Magmi_Wiki
this is useful for updating lots of product data / stock levels quite quickly.
If you do no require an automated solution, you could always use the standard Magento import/export profiles to import stock levels from a CSV file, a quick search for 'Magento Import Export Profiles' should give you a good starting place:
http://www.seenbest-web-design.com/techclub/importing-a-csv-of-products-to-magento/
http://www.woolleydesign.net/2011/02/updating-store-inventory-in-magento/
I am fully functionally using Magmi now. I have written a plugin to automatically create configurable products, so if anyone is ever interested let me know.
There is already a plugin to process configurable products, my plugin is dependent on that plugin.
Basically, you will only be able to create configurable products if you especially have added this to your CSV, with a column named 'type'. In the column type you can set simple or configurable. With my module that won`t be nessecary. By some logic I automatically recognize the simple products and create a new configurable containing those products.
A little explanation on why I need this:
The stock system of our client updates a list of product (CSV) every few hours, containing entries of products. They sell clothing, and every size, and every color is a new entry. So one product can have 10 entries, entry 1: t-shirt green, size 12; entry 2: t-shirt green, size 13, etc.
I explain this, just in case anybody would ever need something like this, my plugin will probably help you. It will although need a few modification for your situation, since this is very specific to how your list of products is composed.
Anyway, thanks for your help!
I am working on a client site and the majority of what they sell is fabric sold by the yard, with a minimum of .25 yards per purchase.
The client INSISTS that he wants the end user to enter a decimal into the quantity field to order the amount of fabric she wants and so far I haven't been able to talk him out of this requirement.
They currently use Miva because it supports this particular requirement (through a module). I'd prefer not to work with Miva if I can help it, so I'm turning to you guys!
So far, I've found two additional options for handling decimal quantities:
Magento
Zen Cart
Anyone know of any other options? I'm open to anything right now (hosted, open source, whatever), just want to see all the options for this one specific weird requirement.
Thanks!
You could go for TYPO3 Multishop. Also open source and with a tiny adjustment it supports decimals as quantity input. You can see it in action on the following web page:
http://www.bbms.nl/webwinkel/
More information about TYPO3 Multishop can be found here:
http://typo3multishop.com/
I'm not so much interested in actually doing this as knowing if Prestashop has the power to allow members to create their own products, classifieds, etc. I've read some articles on Prestashop and played around with it a bit and it looks like the shop owner has to do all the creating and the users consume.
To make client add there own products etc. using prestashop you need to promote all of them at least to managers and grant access to back-office.
But prestashop is just framework as all CMS are. If you have plenty amount of time it is possible to make everything using prestashop source code...
... question is: is it worth?
Especially with the addition of the Webservice in Prestashop 1.4 onwards there's no reason why you couldn't write your own simple "control panel" to give ordinary users some capabilities for creating and managing their own "products".
Obviously you would need to add your own permission scheme (including "ownership") for the products they created, as well as creating the actual product create/edit front end for them.
Definitely possible but non-trivial.
Paul