On our MVE (4.02) we offer a page that displays all of a single vendor’s products - a sort of “shop within the shop”.
However our vendors are becoming frustrated that they cannot order the way the products are displayed. They want to be able to move certain products to the top of the page depending on when they want to promote them.
Is there a way to a) impose an order on the vendor’s products or select products to move to the beginning of the list and 
impos that sorting only when displayed in the vendor’s “shop”?
I’m aware of the numbering field that is used to order the display of categories - but it’s not ideal if a user is regularly revising or adding new products.
Looking for ideas…
Please let us know how do you show these products (block, additional page, etc)?
Here's a sample page:
http://oneofakindonlineshop.com/index.php?dispatch=products.search&company_id=705&search_performed=Y
hi,
please try to modify this link by adding sort parameters, e.g.
http://oneofakindonlineshop.com/index.php?dispatch=products.search&company_id=705&search_performed=Y&sort_by=popularity&sort_order=desc
note: products will be sorted by popularity
in addition, vendor may change popularity in on product editing page in vendor panel (check field “Popularity”).
also please note that product popularity is automatically increased by visiting product details page or adding product to cart
if it does not suit you, it is possible to develop a custom sorting for your store so we are at your service.
best regards,
WSA team
There is the Product list default sorting setting on the Settings → Appearance page in the admin panel. You can just set it to Sort by Popularity
Popularity is a poor substitute for the order fields.
Vendors want to be able force certain products to the top of their company's product lists (i.e.: they are new or on special).
Default sort is site wide and so we'd have to display all products this way.
More custom development…
hi,
we will be glad to develop this feature for you so please don't hesitate to contact us.
best regards,
WSA team
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Popularity is a poor substitute for the order fields.
Vendors want to be able force certain products to the top of their company's product lists (i.e.: they are new or on special).
Default sort is site wide and so we'd have to display all products this way.
More custom development…
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Why you do not want to use the sorting by popularity?
Because popularity can't be assigned by the vendor, so it not useful for manually sorting certain products to the start of the product list.
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Because popularity can't be assigned by the vendor, so it not useful for manually sorting certain products to the start of the product list.
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Really?
As we present all products in our shop wide results using the popularity sorting shop wide would make a mess of things.
Popularity is calculated based on weighted formula of views, adds to cart, deletes and purchases.
Having vendors manually editing this field would no longer reflect actual “popularity” based on customer interaction.
Thank you for the clarification. In this case, addition custom work is required