For some of us that know a little less about the technical part of website setup, can you possibly show screenshots of what areas need to be changed when you have multiple domains?
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Thank you for your feedback. Currently I am working on the documentation on how to install CS-Cart Multi-Store Edition on a server using cPanel.
Question, can one product be shared among say 2 stores and if in one it is sold then it is no longer available in both? If so very handy…
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Yes, it works in this very way. Products have common inventory, so if this product is out of stock in one storefront, it will be out of stock in the other one as well.
We use Plesk as our control panel and unfortunately editing the DocumentRoot for a domain is no small matter. The VirtualHost settings for each domain are not contained within the httpd.conf file and DocumentRoot cannot be edited within Plesk. Instead, there is an include for each domain as in the following:
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/conf/httpd.include
However, editing the file above can break Plesk so a “vhost.conf” override is supposed to be set as in the following example:
Our IHP recommended using a Symbolic Link instead of editing the DocumentRoot but this idea seems even more confusing. Does anyone else use Plesk and if so, have you been able to modify your DocumentRoot without breaking Plesk? I haven't tried the vhost.conf override yet as I could use some insight on the best approach at this. Should I try the vhost.conf override or a symlink?
No, you cannot offer Multi-Store Edition under your own brand name, but you can obtain such a right from us for a fee. Please [size=3]contact us[/size] after the stable release if you are interested in this option.
2) The Reward feature, affiliate feature, coupon and gift certificate. How we will operate this as Root admin & Store admin?
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As regards this functionality, for example, Gift certificates or Promotion Coupons. It will be possible to view all records being a root admin. In other words you will be able to view, for example, all certificates of all your stores. But after you have selected a certain store, you will see only the certificates belonging to it.
This principle works almost everywhere in Multi-Store Edition - a root admin can view everything, and after he/she has selected a store, he/she can view only the data belonging just to the selected store.
4) Is it possible for root admin to limit the products to be added on store admin?
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As far as, as I wrote above, at the moment there is no ability to create individual administrators for each store, that is why there is no such limitation at the moment. But I think that this functionality will be useful after we have created the ability to create individual admins for managing stores. Please post it to UserVoice as well: http://cscart.uservoice.com/forums/134344-multi-store
Is there any chance, that multistore edition will include the live help addon, too?
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At the moment the add-on is being tested in Multi-Store Edition. After the testing has been finished, we will decide whether to include the add-on in the final release. Currently the add-on works correctly and no serious problems in its work have been discovered. So it is likely that it will be included in the release.
hello, I am new here and I’m very interested on using the CS-CART MULTI-STORE system for my business.
But I wonder if this system can do the following things :
When I list down all my products to my MAIN store, I want my other stores will also got those products listed on it automatically (that’s mean when I add product in my MAIN store, I don’t have to do it again for my SECOND store). Is this possible?
Is that possible for me to register a new owner for my second store?
Can he/she(second store’s owner) put their own prices for all the products listed?
Can he/she put their contact information in the store without affecting other stores (3rd, 4th and so on)?
When I delete my products from my MAIN store, I want all the other stores will also got that product being remove too (automatically). So I don’t need to do it over and over again. Is this possible?
That’s all I want to know for now. I will be glad if I can do all that things.
What are the implications on performance after adding several stores?
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Multi-Store Edition will not cause any additional load on the server as compared to Professional Edition.
Let's suppose that you have a CS-Cart Professional installation on your server and 3000 visitors come to it per day. And another CS-Cart Multi-Store installation with three storefronts each of which is visited by 1000 people per day (3000 as well in total). Load on the server will be approximately the same for these Professional Edition and Multi-Store Edition installation.
Multi-Store Edition's load will be a little bit higher as a result of an additional MySQL request, for example when selecting category products.
hello, I am new here and I’m very interested on using the CS-CART MULTI-STORE system for my business.
But I wonder if this system can do the following things :
When I list down all my products to my MAIN store, I want my other stores will also got those products listed on it automatically (that’s mean when I add product in my MAIN store, I don’t have to do it again for my SECOND store). Is this possible?
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As it was written earlier in this thread, you can use the sharing products functionality for this.
When you create a product in a storefront, you can specify at once that this products will be displayed in your other storefronts as well. When selecting a category, just select another storefront and specify the category in which it should be displayed. You do not have to create this product one more time.
5. When I delete my products from my MAIN store, I want all the other stores will also got that product being remove too (automatically). So I don’t need to do it over and over again. Is this possible?
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First of all, I would like to state again, that there is no any main store in CS-Cart Multi-Store and all the stores are equal.
Then, as the inventory database is common for all the storefronts, yes, once you delete a product from your database (in a store), it will not be displayed in the other storefronts with which it was shared.
Thank you for your interest in CS-Cart Multi-Store Edition!
We use Plesk as our control panel and unfortunately editing the DocumentRoot for a domain is no small matter. The VirtualHost settings for each domain are not contained within the httpd.conf file and DocumentRoot cannot be edited within Plesk. Instead, there is an include for each domain as in the following:
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/conf/httpd.include
However, editing the file above can break Plesk so a “vhost.conf” override is supposed to be set as in the following example:
Our IHP recommended using a Symbolic Link instead of editing the DocumentRoot but this idea seems even more confusing. Does anyone else use Plesk and if so, have you been able to modify your DocumentRoot without breaking Plesk? I haven't tried the vhost.conf override yet as I could use some insight on the best approach at this. Should I try the vhost.conf override or a symlink?
Our IHP recommended using a Symbolic Link instead of editing the DocumentRoot but this idea seems even more confusing. Does anyone else use Plesk and if so, have you been able to modify your DocumentRoot without breaking Plesk? I haven't tried the vhost.conf override yet as I could use some insight on the best approach at this. Should I try the vhost.conf override or a symlink?
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You can use symbolic links for configuring Multi-Store Edition.
For example, if you install Multi-Store Edition on http://example.com (and its web root directory is /var/www) and you need to have the second storefront available on http://example.com/store2, you need to create a symbolic link in the /var/www/store2 directory that will link to /var/www.
Then, create a storefront (for that second store, if you have not already created it) on the “Stores” page in your CS-Cart Multi-Store admin panel and enter example.com/store2 in the Storefront URL field on its details page.
After that, when you open http://example.com/store2 in your browser, you will see your second storefront.
You can use symbolic links for configuring Multi-Store Edition.
For example, if you install Multi-Store Edition on http://example.com (and its web root directory is /var/www) and you need to have the second storefront available on http://example.com/store2, you need to create a symbolic link in the /var/www/store2 directory that will link to /var/www.
Then, create a storefront (for that second store, if you have not already created it) on the “Stores” page in your CS-Cart Multi-Store admin panel and enter example.com/store2 in the Storefront URL field on its details page.
After that, when you open http://example.com/store2 in your browser, you will see your second storefront.