Hello forum members,
We are just starting preparations to move our current website over to CS-Cart. Including a whole host of new items it will total about 12000 items. For now in catalog setting, no online sales.
I would like to know more about the best practices surrounding Product hierarchy before we make some time-costly mistakes
Background information
- Our product hierarchy at its lowest level is based around x number of configurations per Model. So Model 'Boda on round rose' will have:
1-4 text blocks
1-4 pictures
1-2 technical drawing
1-2 PDF's (downloadable)
17 unique item numbers/configurations. For example: http://www.artitec.c…kel/198484/rose
4 languages (English, Dutch, German, French)
Question: how should we prepare our data (Excel)? Or are there better ways in organizing such data?
- At this lowest level, we show icons in order to facilitate choosing the correct configuration. We would prefer to maintain them, if at all possible without loads of custom programming.
Question: Is this possible? Is it desirable from an administration perspective?
- Our current solution only allows a Model to appear in 1 location within the database. If we want to show up in multiple places on the website we have to copy the data to other branches in the database… The cs-cart website [url=“http://onlinelighting.com.au/”]Australian Online Lighting Store | Online Lighting is showing the same Item/Model in different places. My assumption is that this is achieved through tags/…
Question: if we want a Model to appear multiple times on the website, how should we design/prepare our data for this?
- How many Product levels is considered best practice? We now have up to 7 levels from Home screen to Model-group level. Which is far too many for the modern impatient webvisitor
THank you in advance for any help and insight
Regards,
Olof