Apparel Store related questions + more

[RickyB]

Some questions:

1) Is it possible to allow visitors to either "Shop by Brand" or "Shop by Category?" If not I suppose I could edit the code and MySQL table to allow a separate Foreign Key or something to link Brands to Products right?

2) Is there anyway to control Inventory based on size and color, since for instance, a T-Shirt of a particular size or color could sell out, but not the others?

3) How difficult would it be to completely strip down this cart to just it's bare PHP functions minus all the CSS and Templates? Plus rather than using all the includes, I'd prefer just a product page + details page + view cart + etc with all PHP contained within. - sorry but the CSS seems really buggy to me ( Mac Here ).

4) Is the order information saved in MySQL? Because since I noticed your admin does not display orders, I need to find away to look up and manage orders from the admin area - even if it requires me programming that from scratch. Also does the cart purge the data if the cart has been abandoned?

Thanks in advance!

Ricky

[Jamie]

Hi Ricky,

Thanks for checking us out!

1) Is it possible to allow visitors to either "Shop by Brand" or "Shop by Category?"

We have no built in support for this. One possibility is to create additional categories for this, and set them to "Do not display". Then, add the items to these special categories. The categories that are set like this will not show up in your normal catalog. You could then link to them any way you like, and they will work as a regular category. You could do this using a select input, and some javascript.

2) Is there anyway to control Inventory based on size and color, since for instance, a T-Shirt of a particular size or color could sell out, but not the others?

No. There is no easy way to do this. We will be working on that in the future. Inventory control is only based on a product, not its options.

3) How difficult would it be to completely strip down this cart to just it's bare PHP functions minus all the CSS and Templates? Plus rather than using all the includes, I'd prefer just a product page + details page + view cart + etc with all PHP contained within.

This would be very difficult.

4) Is the order information saved in MySQL?

Yes, but there are no interfaces to access it in any useful manner. You would be better off upgrading to the next version when it is available, which has built in order management.

Also does the cart purge the data if the cart has been abandoned?

If you are referring to how items added to the cart get back into the inventory when they are abandoned, yes. The cart adds all items that where added to an expired cart back into the inventory.

Thanks,
Jamie