Multistore Issues

We just started to use multistore, and there are quite a couple of things that we run into we think could be improved, or are simply bugs. I thought we could make a list here, check things together if they are bugs or nog so we can post them in the bugtracker.

I'll open (and I find it very surprising nobody noticed this one yet since?!)

Main categories are changing automatically when we edit products that are on both stores, meaning the URL and breadcrums also changes. This is a major issue, and I'm very surprised nobody noticed this before?!

As you can see, the main category here is Sponges & Cloths: https://prnt.sc/jgwle9

But when we edit anything on the product page or just save it, the category changes! https://prnt.sc/jgwlp0

This only happens on products that are available in both stores, so I guess cs-cart overwrites the main category.

Confirmed as a bug: https://forum.cs-cart.com/tracker/issue-7241-cs-cart-changes-url-and-category-on-multistore/

When there is a product that is shared between two storefronts, there is no way to select the main category for the product in each storefront (When the product is assigned only to categories from one storefront there is a radio button for selecting the main category).

It IS possible when doing a mass-edit, so why isn't it possible on the product page? This is annoying because employees can be quite overwhelmed by mass edits and I get a question about this every single day.

Topic in bug tracker here: https://forum.cs-cart.com/tracker/issue-5396-main-category-of-shared-product-not-selectable-in-multi-store-enviroment/?gopid=20665#entry20665

Yea I've noticed some time ago that sharing a product among stores is not the best thing to do..

Also there are some seo problems, if I create same page seo name in two different stores, I one of page names with -en ending.. Cannot make it two identical..

If short I am not happy that all focus now on multi vendor, how developer advertise ultimate it is not so, I cannot control store fronts as completely separate stores.

If short I am not happy that all focus now on multi vendor, how developer advertise ultimate it is not so, I cannot control store fronts as completely separate stores.

Yeah they made some pretty strange choices. Here are another 2:

It should of course be possible to use a different theme per storefront, and also it should be possible to enable and disable add-ons per storefront.