I am creating a portal where I will be having All shops\stores with their products for online buying. User can search products which will then show multiple shops offering that particular product. I need to ask, is this supported in Magento?
Magento supports multiple stores with multiple languages for each store. Products and categories cand be added across stores but not mandatory on all stores. Magento can be configured (ex: themes, product default display type, etc) for each store / store view.
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I have multiple stores in magento. I want to manage Tags on store bases. I add Tags from magento admin and change status to approved but not showing on frontend store.
My question is how to assign magento tags to particular store.
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You can assign to perticular stores like this. It will show only when you have multiple stores.
Remove your cache and try.
Refer this link : http://www.hostknox.com/tutorials/magento/tags
Is it possible to disable users from adding products to multiple categories in the catalog? When a user tries to add a product, it shows all the available categories and sub categories
in the catalog and if the user selects all of them, the same product will be added all over the place in the store. I was wondering if there's a way to restrict that.
There's no way to do what you describe natively in Magento, you would have to write a local module.
I would like to develop TWO Magento websites under different domain names domainONE.com and domainTWO.com
I would like to have SOME (not all) products (Approximately 200 out of 5000) on both websites to be the same, but the Titles, Pictures and Descriptions must be different. The products must be mapped/linked somehow, most importantly the stock MUST be the same on both websites for these particular products and the stock must change on both websites when the product sells on either one of the websites
Example:
domainONE.COM (has 5000 products)
domainTWO.com (200 same products as on domainONE.COM, but the Title, Description and Pictures must be different. However when the product sells on EITHER domains the stock must be synchronized between both domains.
Any solutions?
Thank you in advance!
The Magento is made to solve problem like yours.
It is noy just two, you can share products between hundreds of sites. In fact many store owner configure Magento like you wanted to do. You just got the thr terminology wrong. They called it Multi-store management. In Magento, you can run multiple websites in single installation and have different product name, description or any property for each website - imagine scenario of multi-linguel websites.
You have to read and understand Magento's multi-store management at Wiki page http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/overview-how-multiple-websites-stores-work/
Magento already provide this type of feature.
All you need to do is, set up a multisite magento website.
And yes stock(Inventory) is managed globally by Magento, so I think in short this is all you need.
Below are some links that could help you:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/tutorial-multi-site-multi-domain-setup
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-on-the-fly/multiple-sites/
Regards,
Milan
I have 2 stores one for wholesale and one for retail
I sell the same products on both sites
each site is on different URL, but they are in the same server.
I would like the inventory to be shared between the two sites, except this they are totally independent
for example if I have 100pcs from the same product I want the 100pcs to be available in both sites, if a buyer by 30pcs on one site, immediately only 70 will be available in both sites
Can magento do this? how?
Stock levels are global throughout the installation. if it’s the exact same product, how could the stock level be different in different stores?
I have successfully setup 2 stores with 2 different domains with Magento 1.7. I am unable to get them to share 1 cart, is there a trick to get this working? I have no been able to find any info on this for current versions of magento.
Thanks,
Dane
EDIT:
Thanks for your replies, one of magento's strengths is the ability to have multiple "stores" while sharing the same admin section, products, customers, ect. (I have this already set up). I just cant get the stores to "share" a cart. In my case I have 2 stores that do not share products, but need to share a cart, so you can add a product to the cart while being in one store then hop over to the other store while having that product still in your cart. gap.com is a good example of this happening with subdomains. I know the functionality is possible because of all the discussions / solutions out there for older versions of Magento. I can just not find a solution for the newer version.
Magento shopping carts (quotes) are linked to a single store. This is stored by the store_id column in the sales_flat_quote table of your database. By default you cannot share a shopping cart between stores.
Can you provide a clearer description of how your websites, stores and store views are configured? This information can be found in the admin under 'System > Manage Stores'.